It’s not the color I wanted per se, but my old phone wasn’t working well for my needs and I figured continued supply chain issues would linger for awhile.
It’s only a matter a time before Apple starts making hardware closer to home en masse. Home, of course, being “not just in China.”
The era of de-globalization is upon us.
Once there's no real reason for them to play nice with the west, we're going to see more problems.
The majority of their population is beyond the child bearing age so it's downhill from here no matter what policies they put in place, there's going to be a major population crash for them in the next 30 years.
Else...I'm sure Xi would've done it already.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distr...
However this is just the beginning. After that, assuming worst case labour practices, you have another 10-15 years of supporting increasingly expensive unproductive citizens before they can even start to pay back the costs on society they incurred by being born. It's a long slow road...
(and yes Stephenson is a genius)
How the one child policy was allowed to happen is a mystery to me - surely someone saw this coming?
What's new? They're not playing nice since Xi took over.
While extracting and exporting every ounce of oil the US has. The profit made goes into Nuclear and Renewable Energy.
Next we Annex Canada and Mexico to further build out US infrastructure. We will dub this the Nation of North America.
we are cool for awhile
Somewhat, but a lot is just diversifying away from China.