U.S. Tech Giants Turn to Mexico to Make AI Gear, Spurning China
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2024/02/07/2023-resu...
Mexico by demographic numbers is actually better skilled and educated and capable and productive than existing workers in the "far east" (statistics being numbers that should be looked at with skepticism of course).
Canada will inevitably have a role as well, even if it isn't smart. If it IS smart it will take huge numbers of skilled "far east" immigrants with tech skills and knowledge to support this transition and gain a foothold. Canada can culturally take immigrants more easily than Mexico, they demonstrated it with the Hong Kong exodus.
Mexico will see vast amount of industrial plant construction and "blue collar" work. So will the US and Canada, but those economies are poised to assume the hardware design / fabrication / automation / robotics. You know, if they are smart. Actually, the entire "ring" of the Gulf of Mexico should become a hotbed of materials production, transport, trade, and production, so likely Central America and northern South America can hop on this.
Will Mexico will have a large/larger phase of development and they will look outwards for better capital return pushing them towards less developed economies and the cycle continues?
It already has.
Maquiladoras have sprung up all over Southern Mexico specifically because Central Americans are much poorer [0]
Unsurprisingly, this has lead to anti-immigrant sentiment in Mexico [0]
Before some less informed people respond to this, most undocumented migrants crossing from Mexico to the US are Central American as well. There isn't much of a reason for Mexican nationals to immigrate illegally when USMCA and NAFTA harmonized the visa process.
Also, this article is about the Foxconn assembly plant in Ciudad Juarez, which has been a shitshow for over a decade. Assembly is NOT AI Gear persay
[0] - https://journals.openedition.org/trace/742
[1] - https://www.dw.com/es/migrantes-tampoco-m%C3%A9xico-se-libra...
Is there a word for when something is so predictably absurd because of both it's irony and blatant hypocrisy?
Mexican opposition to the border wall was specifically because of Trump calling all Mexicans rapists and they very annoying fact that Americans think of Mexico as a poor third world hellhole. If that's the case then China and Thailand are equally hellish countries based on developmental indicators and household income.
That's not entirely true, there are may reasons; my friend has a startup in TJ working with professional cross-border migrants because of the immense pain it is to migrate to the US, mainly costs associated with living expenses but also the delays in approval. Hell, even getting his wife approved to come to the US, as a Mexican national married to a US citizen with a dual national child cannot enterthe US aas freely as you are making it out to be.
I think this is the whole victim becomes the perpetuator thing that is all too common in the Human Condition.
They welcomed Ukrainians fleeing the war with open arms, I helped feed and help them find legal resources to get processed in the onset of the war in '22 into San Diego, but when it's 'lesser then' like Russians/Belorussians or other Latin Americans, SEA or Arab nationals fleeing war, famine, or climate change the prejudices were obvious.