Comments by "Patrick T" (@patrickt49) on "Anti-China Dumping Efforts Spread to Global SouthL Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina Unite to Counter" video.

And this is why you don't rely on China solely as an "investment partner".
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@zatoichiable I buy made in China products when I have no choice. I always check where items are made. It's good that now a lot of products are being made elsewhere. So that's not always true anymore.
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@riverlady982 Those products also last longer. So in essence they pay for themselves. If you have to keep buying products because they're flimsy, you're not actually saving. They make you think you are but when it comes down to it you're spending the same if not more had you just bought the more "expensive" product that is of better quality.
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@zatoichiable Not everyone who can afford a Mercedes buys one. That's a horrible analogy.
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At least they have already realized this and have started diversifying from China. The worst thing that any country can do is put all their eggs in the China basket - we all know how that turned out, especially now that the Chinese people are spending less money. So there's less and less reason for multinational companies to stay in China.
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@supertouring1 Have the money? You mean the money that they are printing non stop which is now causing deflation because nobody will spend it, so rather than put it all in the economy they put it in the hands of corrupt third world countries (through loans) so that they can manipulate them into buying their cheap garbage.
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@kamsunleong6648 Chinese EV's better built? You're beyond delusional. Also, nobody wants price wars in their local economy since it negatively affects local industries and companies have to massively lay off people to match Chinese dirt cheap price for low quality products. People in developed countries want higher wages not lower wages or being laid off. Not that China cares.
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Not everything is as it appears to be, especially when a country's interests are at stake. And China doesn't care if it steps on the feet of its allies to get what it wants.
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Problem is a lot of the multinational corporations that are behind their production are leaving. So who's going to fill that gap between production and getting those items to the consumer?
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@Joe-j9e9m Chinese EV's don't meet world safety standards and are perceived to have lower quality. Why would you trust people who are new to the car manufacturing game versus people who have been in the game much longer? I personally would just buy a Toyota hybrid. Japanese level of reliability and you can't go wrong.
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@zatoichiable for certain products, yes. Read my comment earlier. I already saud it's not always true that everything is made in China anymore.
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@SMJ-l6r china is still synonymous with cheap and sub par products. That perception has not changed. So I don't know what you are talking about.
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Tell that to the corporations and government officials who are playing a balancing act between trade and politics.
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You know it's delusion when people deny that China is going through negative economic growth.
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BRICS has always been a joke. What kind of trading bloc can't even agree on anything? That's why China is trying to enlist other countries to join so that they can exercise their politics on the members who aren't willing to bend to their will 🤣. It's a joke of an organization. Two of them don't get along. One is in a war that it can't win against the West. And one of them is basically a failed state with nothing to offer. And these countries are going to re-shape the global order? With what? Corruption and bs?
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