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Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

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Re: Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

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Japan's economy fascinates me. The vast majority of the cars you see on the roads, computers in offices, TVs in hotel rooms, cameras in people's hands etc are Japanese. Amazing self-sufficiency in a world where globalisation is becoming the norm. Japanese-made products are also pretty universally considered to be very well designed and built, too.

Yeah raw materials and parts just fall magically out of the sky, as long as you do the final assembly (and sometimes not even that, sometimes only packaging a product is needed for "made in x") yourself then you are self-reliant.

No need for the heavy sarcasm - why not just point out the nebulousness of what 'Made in [Country]' means or provide some sources that give a more detailed look at Japan's manufacturing base so we all don't need to make assumptions?

Re: Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

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One problem in Vietnam is that it really does NOT have the infrastructure that China has. (Just look at the state of public transport in China vs Vietnam.) It's better than Laos/Cambodia, but the streets are now flooded with cars far more than even 1 year ago, and the traffic is becoming a huge issue. And right now, with all the new factories, Vietnam is suddenly almost as polluted as China. (Just recently we have re…

I am not sure why it is up to "rich countries" to fix Vietnam's pollution problem. Do not allow the building of factories that pollute a lot and it will get better. This is something Vietnam can do on it's own. Absolutely zero foreign interference required.

Wait aren’t we talking about an popular initiative to move all factories to Vietnam??

Re: Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

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Stolen resources.

India had advanced steel making, ship making and textile technologies which were taken by the British.

Huh, I am Indian and have never heard it said like this. Do you have any sources to back this up, apart from the rockets and textile industries?

Re: Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

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One problem in Vietnam is that it really does NOT have the infrastructure that China has. (Just look at the state of public transport in China vs Vietnam.) It's better than Laos/Cambodia, but the streets are now flooded with cars far more than even 1 year ago, and the traffic is becoming a huge issue. And right now, with all the new factories, Vietnam is suddenly almost as polluted as China. (Just recently we have re…

I am not sure why it is up to "rich countries" to fix Vietnam's pollution problem. Do not allow the building of factories that pollute a lot and it will get better. This is something Vietnam can do on it's own. Absolutely zero foreign interference required.

Easy for you to say. Not so easy for really poor people.

Rich countries can help: for example Western companies can mandate that all their suppliers, for their entire chains, down to natural resources, have low levels of pollution.

Vietnam and other countries like it will have to comply, in order to sell their products.

Re: Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

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https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share... Adding Huawei+Xiaomi+Oppo+Vivo alone counts 45% of the world smart share already, by units, and the others consisting ZTE/Lenovo and other Chinese brands as well. Safe to say the Chinese phones are already 50% of all phones shipped. Yes, it is pretty dominating. Had not for the Trump ban, Huawei would probably dethrone Samsung in EU as well, according to…

You said "US is by far the only market that Chinese phones haven't dominated" So Chinese phone manufacturers making up 1/3 of the European market, as per your link, is them dominating it??? Chinese phones don't dominate worldwide in the sense of geography. They dominate worldwide in the sense of units because they are the low margin, budget phone manufacturers supplying lower income parts of the world. Not a bad plac…

While you're partially right, I wouldn't look at the smartphone sales trends if I were you... Chinese phones were at something like 1% 5 years ago and now they're at 45%. There's also not much sign of them slowing down.

Samsung was basically saved from being overtaken by Huawei as #1 by Trump's ban.

Re: Samsung ends mobile phone production in China

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"Rising labor costs", what happens in the future when the world is fully developed and these co's run out of developing countries with cheap labor to exploit?

Unfortunately, there will always be someone to exploit. Capitalists have a clever way of "evolving" to always be able to capitalize on someone/some group.
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