iPhone Production: Never Pittsburgh - Patrick McGee on The Free Press

#apple #manufacturing #friendshoring #china

iPhone Production: Never Pittsburgh - Patrick McGee on The Free Press

#apple #manufacturing #friendshoring #china

South Korea would welcome dependable international partners to join its 5th gen fighter project, the KF-21.

Indonesia with 20% stake has been chronically delinquent with their share of funding and recent news has them further cutting gov't spending significantly across the board.

Poland has indicated interest in acquiring Indonesia's partnership stake, and many leading European defence manufacturers are already technology partners in the project.

It's not going to be a 6th gen 'wunderwaffe in our time', but with some planning workshops across Europe could be churning out components for newer blocks ("v2.0" and up) within just a few years. European electronics and weapons systems manufacturing could benefit from some economies-of-scale here too.

Frankly, after any half-decent 5th gen platform all 6th gen development should go into more compact unmanned and autonomous platforms anyway.

#Sweden, with plenty of relevant engine, electronics and aeronautics expertise, is also due to start planning the follow-up to the Gripen platform.

Perhaps the European Union ought to pick up the baton from #Poland and negotiate a full partnership with SK to create a new 'Free World' platform. Others, like #Canada now struggling with their F-35 decision, might also like to enter the chat.

The USA may manage to wrestle itself off MAGA's deathly embrace in another few years, but for now it feels far safer to just try and license manufacturing rights to whatever useful tech they happen to be willing to offer for sale (while hopefully not selling to hostile actors too...).

#Japan, another major democracy, has advanced hypersonics program (🤔), joint-development in 5th gen fighter platform and still strong manufacturing base.

#KF21 #Boramae #SouthKorea #EuropeanUnion #NATO #France #Germany #friendshoring #F35

The Onset of “Friend-Shoring” in Central Asia - The Times Of Central Asia

As Central Asia’s significance for global supply chains grows, the world’s major economic powers are seeking closer economic ties with the region’s countries.

The Times Of Central Asia
Hamas e il friend-shoring. Le conseguenze del 7 ottobre sulle relazioni internazionali. -

La guerra a Gaza, come tutte le guerre contemporanee, possiede più di una dimensione da analizzare per cercare di comprendere quello che sta avvenendo. Per molti versi la complessità delle guerre attuali può essere descritta come una struttura a cerchi concentrici in cui ogni cerchio è contenuto in un cerchio maggiore con il quale si interseca. Altri commentatori hanno utilizzato la metafora seduttiva della matrioska, la bambola russa che contiene al suo interno svariate altre bambole di dimensioni sempre minori. A mio avviso il paragone con i cerchi intersecanti contenuti all’interno della stessa figura geometrica è però più incisiva in...

LA “VERA” RAGIONE DELLA GUERRA IN #UCRAINA E IN #PALESTINA, E DEL POTENZIALE SCOPPIO DI UNA NUOVA GRANDE GUERRA: DEBITO ESTERO STATUNITENSE E “FRIEND SHORING”

Dietro la #guerra ci sono i #soldi, si pensa nel senso comune, ed è vero...

Ma c'è anche il debito estero USA e il voltafaccia su #liberoscambismo e #globalizzazione: avendo ingenti debiti verso #Cina, #Russia e altri, i nord-americani attuano la strategia del #friendshoring

https://www.fanrivista.it/2023/11/la-vera-ragione-della-guerra-in-ucraina.html

#Marx #Keynes #Lenin #Capitalismo

LA “VERA” RAGIONE DELLA GUERRA IN UCRAINA E IN PALESTINA...

Dietro la guerra ci sono i "soldi", si pensa nel senso comune, ed è vero... Ma una questione più legata alla stretta attualità è il debito estero USA!

☝️ It took just over three decades of no-consequences business with despots to get here — from the immediate post-Tiananmen massacre kowtow queues in Beijing to putin launching a full-scale war on Ukraine in attempt to take it all, or if that fails, to simply eradicate the nation.

And now the axis of despots are backing and cheering on their fellow terrorists' attack on Israel.

Fully building up that axis took many years, but the memo from the 'Free World' was sent and noted by the CCP in the autumn of 1989.

Due to greed and indifference of investors and industrialists from democracies (!) we ended up funding and empowering hostile despots instead of friendly developing democracies.

And here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#china #russia #iran #authaxis #WWIII #friendshoring #derisking #decoupling #Ukraine #Israel #neoidealism #HandelOhneWandel
@noelreports

#Washington is pushing #friendshoring - the idea of replacing #China 's role in #supplychains with friendly nations, chart @DharaRanasinghe https://tinyurl.com/56hpt8un
How China-West tensions will shape global markets

Tensions between the West and China are rising, from tit-for-tat trade tariffs to tech rivalry and spying allegations.

Reuters
#China #India #Mexico -- #nearshoring #friendshoring The evidence of these #SupplyChain rearrangements is beginning to be reflected in #trade flow data, chart @JPMorganAM

Feeling the heat? Here’s something chilly.

“Friend-shoring risks drifting into a costly snow job” by Emeritus Professor Robert Wolfe

Governments should tread with care when their trade policies are based on security

#Trade #TradePolicy #Security #FriendShoring #SnowJob

https://tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2023/06/17/friend-shoring-snow-job/

Friend-shoring risks drifting into a costly snow job

Governments should tread with care when their trade policies are based on security

Trade β Blog