@chameleon54 wrote:
Just about everything is made in China these days. Car parts and batteries, electrical spare parts, clothes, shoes, just about all hardware such as nails, screws and tools, phones and accessories, homewares, hats, sporting and entertainment.
You name it, it is sourced from China. It might not strike home today or tommorow. It will be when you take your car in for a service and they need to replace the brake pads or you call out a plumber and he is struggling to get the parts to fix your problem. People living in their little houses in the burbs might not need or do very much and so become complacent about things outside of their door. But this makes them even more vulnerable to major disruptions as they also cant live without the complex external links that allow suburban homes to function.
I often wonder how people in our cities would go if we had another crisis similar to the depression. No money for power or water or food or fuel. People have become completely reliant on social infrastructure and would not travel too well if these systems failed. Its all dandy while things are going smoothly, but we are more vulnerable than most realise.
your right, thing might not bother us in the short term but in the long game losing imports from china will have a huge effect on us all.
we might think, well i dont need the stuff from china but ya just dont realise how much you really do.
how much medical equipment comes from china?
maybe that hip replacement or new knee is manufactured there?
or the million other bibs n bobs they use during an average day in hospitals.
its not just cheap shoes n clothes, its pretty much everything.
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