China claps back: will not export certain materials for electronics.

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Again, why are they our “enemy”????

They aren't. They're a competitor, but have a LOT of catching-up to do and may never achieve America's status due to the population/labor shortfall they're experiencing coupled with social changes within their society America already went through over 100 years ago.​

 

[levitate]

Y’all seem to worship non American companies even as an American. Pathetic.

Nah, we just have an understanding and appreciation of comparative advantage.

This isn’t the fukking 1700s. It’s a global economy. You make and procure resources where most efficient and cost-effective.

fukk I look like building a big ass factory here to make tennis shoes when I can do it abroad for a 10th of the cost?

I’m looking out for me and my families pocketbook. If you wanna pay 10x for goods unnecessarily…then buy 10x as many and donate the shyt to charity or something.

 

[the bossman]

Care what the world thinks too much, brehs. I see y’all plenty okay with shipping jobs overseas and relying on foreign tech and using slave labor instead of hiring and manufacturing here in America.

Y’all seem to worship non American companies even as an American. Pathetic.

On ya soapbox meanwhile this nikka got a bunch of made in China bullshyt arriving from Amazon on the daily

 

[Strapped]

expect them iPhones to cost you a pretty penny

They are made in China

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

They are made in China

Not for much longer the way things are going....

3 major companies trying to move supply chains out of China, and how they're faring in their attempts to move away from the factory of the world

Apple, chip giant TSMC, and Japanese automaker Mazda are three companies shifting their supply chains to hedge against overreliance on China.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Again, why are they our “enemy”???? And “because white Warhawk’s say so” isn’t a legitimate answer

*Looks at the number of US military bases across Asia.

*Also looks at the number of Chinese military bases in North America.

*Fails to see why China is our “enemy” and seen as an aggressor

What we should have been doing is supporting anti authoritarian movements in Africa and Asia covertly and making sure they build their working class and middle class so we can sell shyt to them.

All China has to do is ask Iran "how many military bases does America have in this region compared to shops and ports?" We have no rebuttal. The military base thing for them is the modern equivalent of "and you are lynching negroes" whenever someone tried to get at the Soviet union over human rights abuse.

Our country should have been focused on building partnerships based off trade instead of letting our multinationals loot these countries so our politicians get their cut of the blood money through campaign contributions. Several years worth of blowback based on awful foreign policy is about to kick this country so hard in the ass.

How the fukk you sanction half the world and then let a country you sold your manufacturing to, sell shyt to those people and make money off them. What the fukk is wrong with this country

So now you've got China in Vietnam, Bangladesh, Thailand, Nigeria, Mexico making moves and building lucrative trade deals while we over here threatening to tax them and calling their countries shytholes and saying they shouldn't send us any of their doctors, engineers, laborers or anything.

All while our population gets older, sicker, and more stupid due to paywalls on journalism and education that keep getting higher and no regulations on social media and dangerous but lucrative algorithms. While they're debating how to achieve nuclear fusion so they don't need coal, we got people debating whether the democrats have secret weather control technology.

Disinformation and conspiracy theories cloud Helene recovery efforts in hard-hit areas

In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, far-right extremist groups and politicians are spreading false claims and conspiracy theories about the disaster and the government's response. Elected leaders from both parties have had to set the record straight and urge people not to give into fear and rumor.

www.pbs.org

 

[JLova]

expect them iPhones to cost you a pretty penny

They’ll start making Vizio phones in the US.

 

[Spence]

AmeriKKKa too busy calling all anti-Zionists
auntie semiconductors for them DEVILS being a sub paypig that gets pissed on by lsrael to think clearly.

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2022-ford-pickup-trucks-f150-chip-shortage-kentucky-speedway/

This is what I was referring to.

We are fkd completely if Taiwan gets absorbed by the mainland.

 

[Jean Jacket]

Dumb cacs.

 

[Insensitive]

The Chinese are practicing slavery TODAY against Muslims but @ReasonableMatic thinks hes saying something LMAO

That isn't what's happening.

There are muslim extremists being detained and de-radicalized to integrate back into society.

These people (the ones you're speaking about) are not going through a Genocide nor are they being enslaved.

Even then, I'm less worried about that and more worried about the Modern Day Jim Crow/Slavery going
on in AMERICA.

The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander

newjimcrow.com

Kamala Harris was an active participant in *THIS SYSTEM* which is *VERIFIED* and not a piece of "Anti-China" propaganda.

 

[Geek Nasty]

Again, why are they our “enemy”???? And “because white Warhawk’s say so” isn’t a legitimate answer

*Looks at the number of US military bases across Asia.

*Also looks at the number of Chinese military bases in North America.

*Fails to see why China is our “enemy” and seen as an aggressor

welcome to Foreign Affairs 101. We have bases all over the world to force project and protect our and our allies economic interests. We took up the mantle of guardian of global commerce after WWII so that the rest of the Western world could demilitarize and rebuild And trade without wars or piracy. Countries like not spending 1/4 their budget on weapons so the agreement continues. You might think those bases are “empire” but they’re there to deter invasions from Russia and China (with exceptions for countries like the Axis powers who lost in WW2). Australia just asked us to deploy 2500 troops permanently for the same reason; deterrence.

China has been trying to take over shipping lanes in Asia (read up on their fake islands). They want to shut us out of the region but that shyts not happening and our allies are with us. They don’t want Chinese destroyers collecting tolls on anyone passing by.

You might think they’re just selling us cheap shyt we want but they’re building a huge military and already have the largest navy in the world.

Just because we have a lot of white supremacists here doesn’t mean the Chinese want to hold hands with you.

 

[Vandelay]

They can't as their economies are reliant on the US dollar as reserve currency.​

Here's the rub with that, as I'm on record here saying countries can't just up and drop the dollar like they're getting rid of lose change, but there will be no incentive for them to keep using it under this circumstance.

The biggest things needed from what I see:

Agreement on exchange rates
Slowly ushering it in as not to cause significant inflation from multiple currencies chasing the same limited amount of goods
Everyone buys oil in dollars
And getting everyone on board to use a single currency which the US is going to use a bunch of tricks to keep it the reserve (problem is, we don't export enough to maintain this...oh and Trump keeps threatening our allies that we're going to abandon them)

 

[bnew]

Republicans in the 1960s: “let’s close our production plants here in the US and source goods from China instead”

Republicans in 2020s: “China is the devil”

Everyone else:

reagan is chinas favorite u.s president.

 

[Insensitive]

Y'all assume China is the US because you're indoctrinated into believing there is no possible way forward WITHOUT war and violence.

This is why y'all cape so hard for a sprawling empire that STILL considers you second class citizens.

China is out here cooperating with everybody but somehow someway they're secretly trying to go to war?

Do you NOT see how the US is the aggressor here? Taiwan? Israel? Ukraine? These are all fronts that could
spark or even may currently be seeing the first stages of World War III and in NONE OF THESE PLACES is China
funding anybody OR actively engaging in combat.


Y'all need to be fukking REAL With yourselves about the country you're in.

 

[levitate]

We have bases all over the world to force project and protect our and our allies economic interests

Not reading anything else you wrote, respectfully.

This breh talking about China being an enemy and in the same breath saying the US has to “force project”. The definition of an enemy is someone that goes around “force projecting”.