China has reached the end of its economic boom. What comes next should worry every American business — and the rest of the world.

  • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I know from personal experience that while Chinese factories are great for mass manufacturing, things really start to go out the window once you get into precision engineering. My company put a ban on ordering any parts that need high metal purity (95%+) from China or India because they would just falsify their material test reports constantly.

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      1 year ago

      To be clear, you can at great cost overcome those issues too and maintain a good level of supply chain integrity, however it costs so much doing so only makes sense when manufacturing on a huge scale - tens of millions at least with each item being very valuable. Ie…iPhones.

      The vast majority of stuff that people want made in China isn’t nearly that profitable.