Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "How Banning Most Chinese Cotton Has Shifted Global Supply Chains | WSJ U.S. vs. China" video.

  1. It's true in America also. We invented those machines and run them ourselves as well as export them.
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  2. It's one thing to be given an organized tour with a predetermined schedule. It's another if you were able to show up unannounced and be let in without delay. So what kind of inspection did you have?
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  3. Americans have the money though. We complain about inflation because we're competing harder against each other due to the supply shocks of China's Zero-COVID and Russia tossing explosives all over Ukraine. Meanwhile China is failing to recover because the average consumer have exhausted bank accounts and anxiety about their future earnings, while working age Russians are fleeing their country at their earliest opportunity.
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  4. China focused on silk, not cotton. That's why there's no such history.
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  5. Those fully automated harvesters are American, it's among the biggest US exports to China. American cotton is expensive because it's top grade material used in the finest clothing, whereas Xinjiang cotton is more the disposable fast fashion kind.
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