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Eventually Russian factories will run out of machine spare parts Most parts are able to be manufactured anywhere. Certainly, it is cheaper (generally) to buy t
by simonblack 5y ago
Eventually Russian factories will run out of machine spare parts
Most parts are able to be manufactured anywhere. Certainly, it is cheaper (generally) to buy the parts from the usual manufacturers. But supply and demand will cause those parts to start to be made, whether in Russia itself, or in China (more likely). If those parts start to get made more cheaply in China than the original 'western' parts, the western parts will eventually become uneconomic to make and be pushed out of the market.
Sanctions are generally a two-edged sword. There is pain caused to the sanctioned party in the short-term, but the sanctioning party more often finds itself damaged in the long-term by being shut out of its traditional markets when the sanctioned party starts buying things elsewhere.
- EdwardDiego 5y agoIt'll be interesting when they start buying Chinese knock-off parts for machines. It didn't seem to work out so well for Russia's IFV tyres... > One aspect that wasn't covered was that a lot of Russian vehicles are fitted with cheap Chinese copies of off-road tyres which may be a significant contributor to the problems Russia is having and exacerbating the poor maintenance Trent talks about. https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/primer-ctis-tyres https://www.tanknology.co.uk/post/primer-ctis-tyres
- simonblack 5y agoWe've gone through the 'cheap Asian knockoff' cycles many times before. I can remember when it was Japanese stuff that was supposedly 'cheap and shoddy' but we all went out later and bought Mazda and Toyota cars and Canon cameras. Then it was the Taiwanese stuff and today the whole world can't do without Taiwanese computer chips. Then it was the Chinese stuff, and the same cycle. But the scene is changing. In the same way as I originally thought the Japanese stuff wasn't up to par and then bought a Mazda Rotary that I absolutely loved, I see that the Chinese Haval is not at all a bad SUV for the price. These days it seems to be that it's Vietnam's turn to be going through the cycle. Starting off cheap, and then later moving up the value-added ladder. History repeats. Products are made to a price. Just because we usually see the cheap Asian shit that our companies try to foist upon us doesn't mean those Asian countries can't produce high-quality stuff for themselves to use against us. There was a cartoon from the 1940s that showed Bugs Bunny finger-flicking a Japanese battleship that then fell to pieces. That wasn't at all the actuality of what happened when the US Navy finally met the Japanese Navy in early 1942.
- _shadi 5y agoThe original cycle started with Germany: "Where does the rubbish in every country come from? Germany!" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/brands-geographical-origin-and-the-global-economy/unfair-competition-and-the-british-merchandise-marks-act-1926/333CB418A4C904E11EF0B9058EC5CB97 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/brands-geographical...
- ffhhj 5y agoThat's really interesting. Germany > Japan > China all of them became tech powers. So the moral is copy, sell, develop, ..., profit!
- simonblack 5y agoBut then, if you go back far enough, it was United States > Germany > Japan > China The US got its own start by copying and ripping off British IP in the early 1800s. https://apnews.com/article/b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88dc53 https://apnews.com/article/b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88dc53
- pibechorro 5y agoIll add that sanctions always hurt the poor the most. They are not a smart way to bully diplomacy.