[Info-vax] [OT] USA

[Chris Townley]

On 20/06/2023 21:16, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <u6qp9o$26q1s$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
> wrote:
>> On 6/19/2023 1:43 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> In the old days, your military had to worry about protecting your
>>> industrial base from an enemy. These days, all your enemy needs to
>>> do is to threaten to stop sending you the goods they now produce
>>> for you.
>>
>> If the goods are critical yes.
>>
>> But China export is mostly consumer stuff.
> 
> Last time I bought servers from IBM, they were produced in China. They
> were low-to-medium range AIX boxes, about $10,000 each in about 2015.
> 
> There's also lots and lots of basic industrial supplies produced in China:
> bolts, cable, switches, and so on. China has acquired vast market power
> through selling stuff cheap and driving other producers out of business.
> 
> John

There is a company that I invest in, Volex, which has carefully bought 
into other manufacturing bases, to remove their dependency on China. 
Sadly the market for some strange reason doesn't like their purchases

-- 
Chris