Re: OT: Trump TARIFFS...!!! ;-D

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

On 2025-02-04, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:
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I think it was the Apple CEO, after being criticised for having Apple
products made in Asia, who pointed out that the USA used to have
thousands of tool and die makers but now has only a hundred or so.

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It was. Steve Jobs told Obama that those jobs aren't coming back. You
could build a chip factory in a couple of months in China. It would take
years, clearing governmental rules and regs, to start breaking ground in
the United States.
We shipped manufacturing to other countries. We don't need tool and die
makers, or we think we don't.
We've been losing WWIII to China for twenty-five years, and we're too
dumb to know that we're in it.

Trump knows. As the only politician in the western world, he alone know the danger of china.
Fortunately though, china is having enormous financial difficulties at the moment, hidden from view of course, by the communist party. On top of that, they are facing huge demographic challenges, so in a generation, chinas population, and therefore tax revenues and power, will have decrease with at least 20%-30% or so.