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A lot of Chinese company owners have moved production to Vietnam, Thailand. Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc., specifically because they are aware of this changin
by happytiger 5y ago
A lot of Chinese company owners have moved production to Vietnam, Thailand. Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, etc., specifically because they are aware of this changing preference in the West. Chinese owned business is not China-based business, but most Chinese-owned businesses are subject to CCP influences.
As you pointed out: manufacturing standards vary factory to factory and region to region, and quality issues abound in newer manufacturing regions that lack the crazy competitive environment China has (a thousand pots et al).
Counterfeit PPE really revealed a lot about boys these factories operate. Very hard to verify ownership reliably.
- not2b 5y agoThere's another, more capitalist reason: wages in most of those countries are lower than wages in China. It's not because of "changing preference".
- happytiger 5y agoThat’s definitely part of it. But for context I’m basing part of that opinion on conversations I had with factory owners I’ve done business with in some of those countries running import/export. Many Chinese manufacturers see the conflict between the US and China as bad for business and have optioned third party countries to continue doing business no matter what happens. They’re very smart people.