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Re: The Trudeau Brand
« Reply #390 on: June 25, 2020, 01:36:01 am »
Any country can be the source of disease outbreak, so that doesn't make sense.

Any country could, but China seems to have them more often than others.  Scientists have been saying since the 2003 SARS that China's wet markets and illegal trafficking in wild animals are a recipe for disaster.

But that's not even the main point. The main point is that while any country could have a disease outbreak, it's much less likely that two or more countries are shut down by disease outbreaks at the same time.  If your production line in China is quarantined,  your line in India might still be going.  Even with this pandemic, where everybody got shut down eventually, I believe that by the time India instituted their own lockdown, China's lockdown was already finished.

TBH the fact that 3M was able to still export masks is a strong vote for global trade COOPERATION.

I think the fact that global supplies of many products were heavily impacted by the situation in China is a strong vote for supply chain diversification.

There's no doubt that they can. 

How much do you want to pay for that ?  Seriously, if it was coming out of your pocket what would you write a check for, to get rid of our relationship with China ?

Is this check we're writing based on the premise that consumer goods would become more expensive?  Because there are actually lots of competitively priced products that don't come from China.  A lot of our textiles come from India and Bangladesh. A lot of our consumer electronics are manufactured in Korea or Vietnam or Malaysia.  If we're looking for cheap labor and dubious environmental practices to exploit, China isn't the only game in town.

It seems to me that China's main threat is that they will stop buying our lumber and agricultural products... but they're already turning that screw during this Meng Wanzhou dispute.

 -k
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