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edit: decades ago, I worked in a lab that was sequencing the genome of the Dengue virus (back when sequencing DNA was a Herculean task)

You are incorrect.

> Apple Inc has assembled $14 billion worth of iPhones in India in fiscal 2024, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

Would a country be able to track that??

It's going to occur, as it already does occur, for all kinds of reasons, but it's not going to be as simple as you make it out to be. There is a limited capacity to perform this work meaning the costs may not even be competitive with the US tariff in the long run.

That’s not how things work, they care about control not micromanaging everything. There are rules favoring majority Chinese owned companies, but that doesn’t need to be government ownership.

The CCP only really cares about large companies or specific industries like media. There’s minimal interference in a food truck and thus most companies that are small, but things get more involved as you scale. Critical industries like shipping and electricity have government owned businesses running things.

Where'd you get that? The state has a significant (though usually less than controlling) ownership stake in about 1.5% of Chinese businesses, and at least _some_ ownership in about 2%.

"The state owns some of this" is, of course, not equivalent to "the state meaningfully controls this".

But in any case for this sort of activity you'd probably just establish new companies, which the state wouldn't have any share in anyway. And, also, this is kinda academic, because you wouldn't be doing it in China, you'd be doing it in some third country and transhipping goods originating in China.

I've heard from various YouTube channels covering news about China, it's social issues and shenanigans that all companies above a certain size are required to have someone on staff that's essentially part of the government. These channels are however mostly run by people speaking very good English, so clearly made for the western market.

But Googling that information seems to confirm it, too. I.e.

> Since 2018, domestically-listed companies are required to establish a party entity.

I cannot speak with confidence on the topic, but from an uninformed spectators perspective, it does sound like timewizards argument was correct?

And, y'know, eh, Trump says a lot of things.

There were however reports of Chinese companies actually setting up production in e.g. Thailand. The products are more expensive then, so it doesn't actually change anything - at least it was like this before the introduction of the one billion gagillion tariffs.

not just an issue with tariffs, but with sanctions.

Guess how many companies suddenly popped up in places like kazakhstan importing electronic components and other us-sanctioned products, and then selling it to russia.

The reality in high-tariff economies is simpler: more people just forge customs paperwork.