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China is becoming increasingly vulnerable based on strengths. They import nothing they can’t do without that’s not raw materials, where they’re extra vulnerable. So tit-for-tat trade penalties don’t work.
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Post-Covid reconstruction, if there’s a lot of dematerialization and localization of consumption, so world’s export markets mainly consume industrial intermediates over finished goods, China will be significantly weakened.
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I'm not so sure. Back when i started with 3D printing 12 years ago, i got all my plastics from local manufacturers. Since then they have all disappeared, and china plastic is the only thing left. I kinda miss the (likely toxic) oily smell of ABS from Nizhny Tagil.
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