Lol 118 bannable apps versus Tagore poetry and yoga is... an interesting sort of cultural trade deficit. India basically exports no cultural goods worth canceling to China. The US otoh has Hollywood exports as a pain point.https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tagore-no-threat-to-china-why-should-pubg-be-a-risk-to-india-asks-beijing/story-EcwOFSFhRA5JdILES142UL.html …
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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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See later in thread. I’m arguing they’ll keep the energy intensive intermediates sectors where there is a benefit to process concentration/scale.
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