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I think this will depend on how much of an ally they are in the future. If they are seen as an economic threat, like Japan in the 80s, the media will probably start to report more on the atrocities committed in Kashmir along with the new Citizenship Law that appears to target or disadvantaged Muslims. Vietnam might he another alternative, but they are also a communist country, so the optics might not be better than C…
It is appalling how despite the availability of information online, people still choose not to verify what they hear on the MSM. Here is the link to the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 on GOI website. It's only a 2 page document. http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/214646.pdf It was amended to accommodate persecuted minorities from *neighboring countries" of India. It has nothing to do with the Citizens of In…
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#32Serious question: Modern manufacturing, especially for things like electronics, is highly automated and increasingly so. That implies you don't need a lot of labor to do it and what you do need is skilled labor anyway. Lower unskilled labor costs don't seem like a huge advantage there. So what's still keeping it in countries like China and India and not e.g. Minnesota, which would yield a PR advantage and lower trans…
Also the supply chains are all over there so the lead times and communication are vastly better.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think this will depend on how much of an ally they are in the future. If they are seen as an economic threat, like Japan in the 80s, the media will probably start to report more on the atrocities committed in Kashmir along with the new Citizenship Law that appears to target or disadvantaged Muslims. Vietnam might he another alternative, but they are also a communist country, so the optics might not be better than C…
> Vietnam might he another alternative, but they are also a communist country, so the optics might not be better than China. It's already a booming manufacturing alternative center to China. It's also a center of booming tech manufacturing. Samsung has invested a huge amount of money into factories there. Their GDP has gone from $35 billion in 2003, to $261b in 2019. They've had one of the fastest growing economies f…
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#34Foxconn is getting ahead of the curve here. They know its going to happen and so its better they do it and keep the client than letting others get in to the game. Indian consulting companies use the same strategy. They have offices all over the world and actively go to places where the wages are low and set up shop themselves.
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It is appalling how despite the availability of information online, people still choose not to verify what they hear on the MSM. Here is the link to the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 on GOI website. It's only a 2 page document. http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/214646.pdf It was amended to accommodate persecuted minorities from *neighboring countries" of India. It has nothing to do with the Citizens of In…
This is blatant disinformation by omitting context. The CAA itself is discriminatory, since it does not apply to muslims, but in the context of the National Register of Citizens ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizens ) it becomes even more sinister. The NRC requires people to prove their citizenship through documentation, which is very difficult for large parts of India's population, who might…
No it doesn't. Here's the relevant part of CAA(http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/214646.pdf) that mentions non-Muslims
> Provided that any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st day of December, 2014
If you are a non-Muslim who wants to get Indian citizenship under CAA, you must prove (1) you are a citizen of one of these neighboring countries and (2) you entered India before 2014. It is just not enough to not have papers to "slip through the cracks".
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#37> With India’s labour cheaper compared with China, and the gradual expansion of its supplier base here, Apple will be able to use the country as an export hub While there are negatives, I appreciate how globalization of manufacturing helps lift poorer economies (albeit it slowly and not always agreeing with the politics of the newly-built middle classes). One might expect manufacturing in mid-Africa in two decades.
Actually I think, the most ideal countries to expand manufacturing to are African countries, they have some of the same advantages once china had. 1. Mineral Resources. 2. Cheap Labour. 3. High Density of Lanthanide and Actinide group minerals. China also has a fourth advantage which is a good mix of Production, Manufacturing and Electronics Engineers. Which Africa doesn't have. On the other hand India doesn't have t…
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#38Serious question: Modern manufacturing, especially for things like electronics, is highly automated and increasingly so. That implies you don't need a lot of labor to do it and what you do need is skilled labor anyway. Lower unskilled labor costs don't seem like a huge advantage there. So what's still keeping it in countries like China and India and not e.g. Minnesota, which would yield a PR advantage and lower trans…
Napkin math if you were to move 500k workers to the US and paid them $100 a day instead of $5 a day it would cost you $17B a year.
Would be interesting to see how labor per unit is trending to determine if manufacturing is actually getting more automated and at what rate.