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https://twitter.com/megatron_ron/status/1914695388860240057Just as China was forced to adapt to chip export controls by stockpiling restricted equipment, exploiting loopholes, smuggling in the short/medium-term + developing domestic capabilities (upstream SME, building out domestic chip capacity) in the long-term …
https://twitter.com/ChinaBeigeBook/status/1914274360048656769U.S. wage levels are too high, which means this type of labor-intensive mfg work is simply not feasible to re-shore to America.
https://twitter.com/armanddoma/status/1912690641055936541Probably time to re-up this deep dive I did last fall examining China’s socioeconomic inequality that goes beyond wages and takes into account redistribution and wealth effects.
https://twitter.com/glennluk/status/1837929181923234025
https://twitter.com/glennluk/status/1908936890658832533
https://twitter.com/glennluk/status/1909284728387051542One second-order effect of this will likely be that China reduces its USD reserves.
https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1909286463176323227Vietnam reducing U.S. import tariffs to zero will not significantly increase imports from the U.S. 👇
https://x.com/GlennLuk/status/1908657871933292755
https://twitter.com/hongshenzhu/status/1909309957939642503Let’s put that 2.5% in perspective of China’s fiscal impulse.
https://twitter.com/glennluk/status/1897314586615009280
https://twitter.com/brad_setser/status/1909091672597971121But the U.S. is clearly a net exporter of Internet/advertising/tech. So it has “overcapacity” of this stuff under this strange definition.
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1909093517088956830The above distinction succinctly captures the crux of the BoP debate I’d had with Brad Setser 👇
https://twitter.com/glennluk/status/1852082126318895135
https://twitter.com/tonamiplayman/status/1908775320494498110The negative in this is whether such focus on CNG actually had negative ramifications on the development of India’s domestic electric vehicle industry and ramp.
https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/19081499011851554521. Has already (and swiftly) responded from an expanded retaliatory toolkit.
https://twitter.com/rwang07/status/1908116759732736295
https://twitter.com/econovisuals/status/1904155472044642385
https://twitter.com/industrlpolicy/status/1907861859136307219But how much of that revenue is actually going to manufacturing vs. retail, branding, distribution, design, overhead, etc.?
https://twitter.com/glennluk/status/1896576776098517279This thread covers the latest fiscal impulse bogey, for the record.
https://twitter.com/glennluk/status/1897314586615009280