Who Eat's The Tariff?

[Belsnickel]

(05-25-2021, 11:13 AM)Au165 Wrote: I agree China is abhorrent in terms of its human rights violations and other issues. The reality though is China's dominant role in a global economy will not be unseated through tariffs. China is about the only thing that can derail China as their geographical advantage in terms of raw materials, along with their state forced slave wages to make them a "necessary evil" to most of the world hence why there has been little actually done about their human rights issues. There is a belief that Africa could potentially provide an alternative but because of the fractured nature of the content with a lot of destabilized governments, it is hard to put too much of your eggs in that basket. Interestingly enough, China recognizing that potential has actually invested a lot in "owning" Africa in an attempt to preemptively cut off future competition.

Yep. China moved in once the days of European colonialism in Africa came to a close. They went in during that power vacuum and offered an alternative. It also needs to be said that even looking towards other Asian countries will have similar results. China will establish factories in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, etc., and use them to get around our tariffs. So looking to other nations in the region to house production facilities may still result in a boon to China.