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> so they're moving their operations to countries that don't have such risks

Did you mean: different cheap labor authoritarian nation?

It's not the authoritarianism that's the issue with China. It's the geopolitical rivalry with the US and Taiwan.

>> geopolitical rivalry with the US and Taiwan.

The other geopolitical rivalries play a role too, including with Japan, Australia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea, Philippines, Brunei, India,

> Companies all over the world have discovered that the cheap labor authoritarian nation where they did they manufacturing turned out in the end to be a real political problem and business risk, so they're moving their operations to countries that don't have such risks.

So they moved from one cheap labor authoritarian nation to the other cheap labor authoritarian nation next door.

that don’t have such risks… yet

What are you suggesting?

Such as: Vietnam. A communist country.