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An article so aggressively stereotypically lib that I'm having a hard time believing that it's not just HB bait
(thelemmy.club)
Article text
An initiative so feared that China has stopped saying its name
The Economist
China | The Voldemort of economic plans
“Made in China 2025” has been a success, but at what cost?
LIKE LORD VOLDEMORT from Harry Potter, “Made in China 2025” is an initiative which induces so much fear and loathing abroad that Chinese officials dare not speak its name. The plan, introduced a decade ago, called for pouring money and resources into dozens of industries. The goal was to turn China into a green and innovative “manufacturing power”, one that relied less on labour and Western supply chains, and more on automation and new home-grown technologies. This was Xi Jinping’s vision for the Chinese economy.
[PAYWALL]
When America pushes to buy "Made in America" and from "American" companies, its patriotic.
When China (or literally anyone else), its foreign nationalists trying to undermine our economic power.
(Please ignore examples like NAFTA allowing GM/Ford to make 99% of a car in Mexico and shipping it for assembly in the US so we can put a flag sticker on it. And ignore us being so treat brained that 80%+ of every product I've ever seen a tag on, that isn't food, is NOT made in America and that's ok until it suddenly isn't. And ignore that we've so thoroughly destroyed domestic manufacturing that its impossible for USA consumers to even try to willingly buy American.)