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“they want everything sold in China to be 100% made in China. ”???
by hackuser01 2y ago
“they want everything sold in China to be 100% made in China. ”???
- Havoc 2y agoThey've been moving in that direction for years. When you've got a strong industrial base AND a big local market then it becomes common sense both economically and strategically to nudge things in that direction
- mrjin 2y agoIt was and probably will be cheaper for China to buy some components from external source, and the "buying is better" party dominated for about 30 years. US has well demonstrated well enough why China should stop buying at least critical parts.
- maxglute 2y agoPRC has population of OECD countries combined. That's enough of humanity for indigenous everything. US postwar basically maintained autarky across the tech and production tree with 160-300m people before outshoring / ceding strategic industries to others. When PRC has 3x that much people, they can't not eventually aim for ~100% domestic efforts on needs of satisfying job creation alone, and that's what's been happening since they started pumping out OCED combined in tertiary and skilled talent in the last few years - to do the designed in Califorinia part while holding on to as much of the Made in China part.