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Ka-pi96 said:
Jon-Erich said:

Only physical products, though I do think some states do add on taxes for digital purchases. 

Anyway, though it couldn't be done overnight, I think one solution to all of this is to have consoles manufactured elsewhere. I did hear something about Foxconn opening up plants in North America, though that was a while ago. At this rate, though, the consoles could be made in Taiwan, Mexico or the various emerging markets in East Asia. I think Vietnam would be a good place to invest into, though I'm not sure how quickly this could be done. At this rate though, China needs the US more than the US needs China. The US is the buyer. China is the seller. There are plenty of other places to buy from.

Plenty of other places to sell to as well. Why move all your factories and recruit a whole new bunch of staff when you can just continue what you're doing and continue selling to the rest of the world just as you were before.

The problem is when China does things that's competitively unfair. That's how this whole dispute came about. Now, China does not want to cripple the US economically because The US is China's biggest buyer of goods in the world. At this point, China needs the US. A large portion of China's economy involves selling goods to the US. The US however does not need China as much and if China does not want to play fair, then there are plenty of other countries out there that want to sell goods to the US. Also, while setting up in other countries might take some effort, it's not that hard. In fact, the whole notion of having everything made in China is somewhat new. When I was growing up, your products from Nintendo and Sega were made in Japan. Japan made their own stuff. The US made a lot of it's own stuff. The whole idea of moving everything to China only started happening maybe about 20 years ago. So it isn't like China was always that country that made products for everyone and in 10 years, it may be somebody else.



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