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Agreed. For me I’d rather NOT buy a Made in USA Apple products as that would be tariffed undoubtedly where I live (outside the US). As Trump ****s up global world order and tariffs everyone left and right, does he truly believe the whole world would kneel down and pray to the god of murica? Of course all US built products will be tariffed equally, which hence will diminish sales.
What will happen when 45 gets re-elected and this madness goes on is: Apple will manufacture most in China and some products in other countries (Vietnam, Thailand, etc). The Made in China products will be sold globally, the Vietnam ones in the US until Trump decides to tariff those too. A Made in China product will always be cheaper in e.g. europe than a Made in USA one. And frankly, better too. Because China has built up expertise over decades. No one in the US has manufactured high end electronics in 20 years.
He doesn't care about the global order. He wants to destroy it. People think he's just being ignorant, but nope. This is his goal, for better or worse.
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Such is the ignorance of a large section of the American public, having no ideas of how the world and domestic economy works. Globalisation was pushed by the US for decades and massively benefited the US. Right now, US has climbed the economic food chain and can not return to its old state unless there's a revolution and crash the economy. Manufacturing jobs won't return to the US unless the cost of employment is at least halved, completely unpalatable for the US public and expecting to achieve such is but ignorance and wishful thinking. The world's manufacturing supply chain has long left the US and even China has been climbing and off-loading lower value manufacturing to developing countries. Looking from the outside, what Trump and his supporters are trying to do is but shooting itself in the foot as for those Brexiters. In due course, they'll crash the vibrancy of their economies by artificially binding their major corporations, losing international competitiveness. With these domestic attitudes and policies, Apple and other major US corporations will start to decline and the real suffering will be America. So dumb!
Globalization was partly a way of bribing western Europe and other countries away from the Soviet Union and also a way of protecting capitalism.
China was able to flourish under the American Global Order, and Trump and Co have had enough. China can use its own navy if it wants now to secure global sea trade routes. Let's see how well they do.
Most US trade is done within NAFTA, US is energy independent, and the US is the most food rich country in the world. The US doesn't really need the world, unlike China and Russia.
Will the US lose power in the grand scheme of the global order? Absolutely. Russia has already won the Middle East, thanks to Bush and Obama. Iran and Turkey are going to be the major players in the Mid East from this point forward and they are pretty much Russian allies. Europe is going to move the direction of some kind of coalition with China, Russia, etc to get around the SWIFT system in the long run.
But I say good! I like the idea of the US not being involved in global politics. We have everything we need here. We've been moderating world affairs since WW2 and we are all tired of it. Screw liberal hegemony!
