Comments by "tooltalk" (@tooltalk) on "China Hints at 25% Car Tariffs" video.

  1. The US is a huge net importer of Chinese goods. It's not too difficult to see who's going to lose.
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  2.  @LordHilpolithRothschild  over 95% of all key components in Apple iPhones exist outside China. This is exactly why Samsung was able to pull out of China back in 2019 without disruption or anybody noticing. There is no market/competition in China.
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  3. try 1000%
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  4. China has little to gain from losing their WTO membership.. Actualy it has a lot to lose.
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  5. And the US saved China from the Imperial Japan who surely would have taken over the whole country.
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  6. Yes, and there is no limit
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  7. try 1,000% and see who win this game.
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  8.  @Notimpressed001  90+% of all key components in iPhone are imported; then assembled; and finally exported back out to the world.
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  9.  @NoFrillz-G  It was always that easy. Samsung is the largest smartphone maker in the world past 12+ years -- they pulled out of China and close the last Chinese smartphone factory in 2019. Hardly anybody noticed, why? That's because smartphone supply-chain ALWAYS existed outside China.
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  10.  @ScoobieDoo-zy1rh  It makes a lot of sense as it's always been that way past 15+ years. All high-value, high-tech components, such as, OLED display (South Korea), camera sensors (Japan), AP/wireless modem (US/Taiwan), memory/storage (SK/US) are made outside China; then imported into China -- to the tune of $420B in 2022 -- then exported out to the world. No worries, China has hundreds of small suppliers that make a lot of low-value, low-tech components, such as screws, rubber seals, cases.. As said earlier in other comment, this is precisely why Samsung, the largest smartphone maker in the world, pulled out of China without anybody noticing it.
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  11.  @ScoobieDoo-zy1rh  just amusing how naive laymen are -- you must be Apple's target customer. Every year iPhone releases a new phone and there are companies that tear them apart to understand the underlying tech and identify suppliers. They even use X-ray to see how ICs are designed and which IP are used. There is nothing special about this -- there is fairly standard industry practice.
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  12.  @ScoobieDoo-zy1rh  Oh boy.. let me guess you are under 20? Every year iPhone releases a new phone and there are companies that tear them apart to understand the underlying tech and identify suppliers. They even use X-ray to see how ICs are designed and which IP are used. There is fairly standard industry practice and we know exactly where most pieces come from. As for your somewhat clueless labor comment, think, the average age of Foxconn workers was 23 yrs (2015) + $1.50/hr -- the US minimum wage in 2015 was $7.5 and where else would you find millions of 23 year old willing to live in a crammed small doorm next to the factory where they work 12+hr/day?
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  13.  @ScoobieDoo-zy1rh  It's only a phone. IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) crashes 100+ perfectly brand new cars every year to understand the safety -- it's not about being rich.
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  14. No, China forces all foreign makers to manufacturer cars domestically; China's auto import is a small fraction of what all foreign companies are making locally.
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  15. Of course not. China is a net exporter of goods and service and by far the largest beneficiary of global trade. LOL
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  16. China should have known better when they banned foreign battery companies back in 2016 and forced all EV OEMs to use locally made batteries by local battery companies (BYD/CATL) only.
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  17.  @rain-el1wz  which is why Biden must end the war in Ukraine and Gaza, which he probably won't because he's a foolish liberal.
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  18.  @MMLL369  China's centrally planned economy already collapsed decades ago, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall China came begging to join the world order created by the West.
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  19. Europe is not "following" -- the EU already initiated a WTO complaint against China back in 2018. Their recent anti-subsidy probe is a follow-up to that, though I must say that the EU/US should coordinate their countermeasures against China.
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  20. It would be enforced by the CCP -- it's called shadow banning.
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  21. ​ @牛皮纸老虎  China is a net import of goods from ASEAN, mostly raw materials. There is hardly much market for EVs.
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  22. Sure, China banned foreign battery competitors from their local EV market since 2016 and the US/EU are banning their EV/battery companies out of their local market.
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  23.  @jameschalkwig787  : That must be why China has been crying and just filed a WTO dispute accusing the US IRA of doing what China has been doing past 9 years!!
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  24. Sure, that was a retaliation, or counter measure, against Europe's protectionism on poultry industry. China is now getting a reciprocal policy for their exclusionary policy banning foreign battery makers since 2016.
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