The especially active holiday-shopping season in the United States has been a boon for China exports despite years of political and trade frictions between the countries.
Anecdotally, I do not know a single person that has ever checked the “Made in X” tag on a product before buying it. Even the most nationalistic folks I know.
Some people might see an online advert where the vendor is pushing the “made domestically” tagline hard, and it might even get them to buy that product, which probably had 80% of the components made in China anyway. I’ve never seen somebody stopped from buying a product because it was manufactured in China though.
Oh yeah, China is the main source of inputs for about 95% of all American industrial sectors once you include all the intermediaries. There is zero chance of any meaningful decoupling happening.
I actually did stop buying made in China stuff when the first news articles about Uyghurs dropped and I completely believed them. It was such a pain in the ass to do lol.
Anecdotally, I do not know a single person that has ever checked the “Made in X” tag on a product before buying it. Even the most nationalistic folks I know.
Some people might see an online advert where the vendor is pushing the “made domestically” tagline hard, and it might even get them to buy that product, which probably had 80% of the components made in China anyway. I’ve never seen somebody stopped from buying a product because it was manufactured in China though.
Oh yeah, China is the main source of inputs for about 95% of all American industrial sectors once you include all the intermediaries. There is zero chance of any meaningful decoupling happening.
https://edconway.substack.com/p/globalisation-is-a-far-far-bigger
Ahkshually sir we are calling it derisking but rest assured it’s not because we have realised the impossibility of the task
lol yeah, they really walked that back from the original lofty goals haven’t they
I actually did stop buying made in China stuff when the first news articles about Uyghurs dropped and I completely believed them. It was such a pain in the ass to do lol.