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- factories in Southeast Asia that were started shortly after the Trump sanctions in 2017 or covid 2020, that have finally come online - CHIP act in mid 2022 f
by marianatom 4y ago
- factories in Southeast Asia that were started shortly after the Trump sanctions in 2017 or covid 2020, that have finally come online
- CHIP act in mid 2022 from Biden that spurred Apple to finally drag its immoral lazy feet
- Russia invasion of Ukraine, and Chinese proclamation of friendship with no limits shortly after
- covid lockdowns in China in early 2022 that shut down factories
- increasing electric rationing every year in China that shut down factories
- Foxconn factory riots
- very loud geopolitical risks that C level execs can no longer pretend not to hear
- can't move money out of China. 'I can't get my money out': Billionaire investor Mark Mobius says China is restricting flows of capital out of the country. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/mark-mobius-china-investing-capital-restricting-outflows-markets-strategy-jinping-2023-3 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/mark-mobius-...
- vehementi 4y ago> - can't move money out of China. 'I can't get my money out': Billionaire investor Mark Mobius says China is restricting flows of capital out of the country. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/mark-mobius- https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/mark-mobius-... This has been true for 10+ years
- bobthepanda 4y agoWhich is always hilarious to me that people complain about USD as a global reserve currency and then propose CNY take over. Whatever the US is doing with sanctions is still much looser than China's controls on capital, and they've made it an explicit point that they would rather keep capital controls and the ability to suddenly put in even more draconian ones, than to become a global reserve currency.