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They should just go ahead and pull their ads, then, and see what happens. Call their bluff.

• ElViajero 5y ago
  The director that makes that move is going to be fired faster than China start to think to go back to normal. The problem from the start is the trade between USA (& Europe) and China is unbalanced. The USA is way more dependent to China than the other way around. This was the same mistake that the USA did with Japan. Move production there, think that they are stupid and never have any control over the manufacturing. Now it is obvious that China is not stupid, but it is too late and there is too many personal interests on growing in China. Many CEOs bonuses depend on what happens in China, meanwhile their business in the USA is guaranteed by monopolies and oligopolies. So, why bother about making USA citizens happy if they have not a choice? This is easy to solve with political will. Instead of antagonizing China, the solution is to increase USA education, infrastructure and be able again to produce what nowadays can only be produced in China. > Call their bluff. tldr; China will call Google's bluff, not the other way around.
  • rapind 5y ago
    "Move production there, think that they are stupid and never have any control over the manufacturing." It's naive to believe that those who lobbied for and benefited from moving production to China were at all concerned about manufacturing control 30 years later. Fortunes were made. The current situation didn't sneak up on anyone, it's just that the people warning about it never had any real influence.