cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57182784
cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/57182782
Carney told reporters on Friday that “the world has changed” in recent years, and the progress made with China sets Canada up “well for the new world order”.
Canada’s relationship with China, he added, had become “more predictable” than its relationship with the US under the Trump administration.
You can get Chinese prices if your citizens are willing to work like the Chinese, no one in the West will.
Autarky is also largely a degrowth argument, most Westerners already feel like they should consume even more so it’s impossible to win unless your voters fall for Donald Trump esque arguments. The modern Westerner lives one of the most opulent lives in the world history on the back of cheap third world labor.
I definitely do not think the Trump administration has a plan, other than to bankrupt the US.
Shipping stuff is cheap if you have alot of it for example
https://freightify.com/ship-containers/china puts a 40ft container at max $6000, which in practice can fit around 26000kg, so per kg you are paying around 26 cents per kg shipped. You would get even better deals I assume if you had contracts setup to do bulk business with freighters