Suspension of inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong

Post by ben_w » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 8:58 AM UTC

consp wrote: post #314

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #304

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There are nets on bridges and other places in the US, too. Also I don't think the suicide rate of those workers you are referring to is higher than the general population. There are simply lots of workers. For example, Foxconn has more than 1 million employees so it is normal that there would be some level of suicide within such a large population.

We have millions of people here, suicide rates are not that high, and no nets. So what is your argument exactly?

Post by almaight » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 9:04 AM UTC

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #318

abrookewood wrote: post #7

Any idea why?? Presumably the tariff/trade debate?

The most likely reason is because shipments below a certain value were not being inspected and this was a loophole that allowed China to undermine the US by shipping fentanyl ingredients. My guess is that the postal service needs time to resolve this issue, and are choosing to stop processing these packages for now. The other possible reasons are to impose tariffs on shipments below the low value threshold, to disrup…

Post by blitzar » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 9:12 AM UTC

vaccineai wrote: post #324

Daishiman wrote: post #319

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Building out more high-speed rail interconnections than any other part in the world is a well-known sign of a country that thinks short-term.

Building out mostly unused high-speed rail interconnections and being in debt is a well-known sign of a country that thinks short-term. the local government gets paid for building these useless rails out. China Sees More Stations Shut Down as High-Speed Rail Debt Crisis Deepens https://english.pardafas.com/china-sees-more-stations-shut-d... China’s High-Speed Rail Is Dead: Over 4,000 Ghostly Stations, Billions Spent,…

Post by hnfong » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 9:21 AM UTC

catherd wrote: post #307

reaperman wrote: post #72

This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches of samples / prototypes / revisions sent in packages on airplanes. I literally do not know how the electrical and firmware engineers will do their jobs now if we cannot receive packages…

Only if "utterly fucked" somehow means you can still pay a bit more to DHL and get packages even faster than USPS. Your fast prototypes coming by air freight likely aren't routed through USPS at all unless it's the last leg of a consolidated shipment that's broken apart once it reaches the US. Those would be using some other carrier to get them from China to the US and then USPS only inside the US. USPS all the way f…

Post by Maken » Wed, Feb 05, 2025, 9:29 AM UTC

vaccineai wrote: post #283

Peteragain wrote: post #262

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Good point. Capitalism's fundamental is RoI, and in China the time scale is "forever" while in the venture capital market it's 5 years max.

Chinese government only thinks in terms of months, not forever. Why do you think they overbuilt housing and crashed the economy? It's because the government officials want to quickly cash out and escape to other countries.