1)China made Artificial flowers & other products that uses plastics - plastic is a byproduct of oil, which China does not have any.
2)Fireworks & other so called 'rare earth' minerals - they are NOT rare. They exists even in one's backyard. However, to extract such minerals, they would need HEAVY EQUIPMENT, that are BOUGHT from the West & Asia.
3.) Chip making - it is not just silicon or gallium, etc that one can make a chip or chips. There are a whole list of other SPECIALIZED equipment to create such chips that China has to BUY from the West. China can make its own machines, but are not at that evolutionary stage yet. Just one nanoscale mistake & the entire day's worth of chips become useless & needs to be thrown away.
A)Chip making & tech bosses loves China for its cheap labor to gain profits. They cared less for the 9-9-6 sweatshops conditions that the Chinese workers labor under, as production is outsourced to such private or State owned factories. Any responsibility of exploitation of workers lays with the Chinese management & not the big name companies.
B) China can buy oil, minerals & hi tech equipment from the West & World at 0% tariffs. However, when it attempts to sell back those processed & manufactured goods to the USA, it will be hit with a 245% tariffs, making its products expensive & non competitive in USA whereby it has all it needs to produce & manufacture such goods at a far lower price.
In the end, most Chip making tech bosses saw realities, & had moved production back to USA. Only the stubborn hold outs would KPKB, in the hope that their opinions & greed would sway the naive to stop the tariffs so that they can continue to gain profits thru slave labor in collusion with China bosses.
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