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4Tran said:

This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone paying attention. It would take years to properly shift production from China to the US. The only reason to do so is because of Trump's tariff war. Will the policies of said trade war still be extant after those years have passed? And nevermind that the underlying reasons for moving production to China in the first place are still going to be there.

There is a way to move production back to the US, but Trump's method isn't going to accomplish anything.

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The whole concept of moving production to the US is a fallacy by people who doesn't know anything about production.
US companies don't own any production, they only control which producer they source from.
To move production, they can only try to convince their Chinese supplier to build a factory somewhere, as Tesla unsuccessfully tried to do.
US companies themselves have no ability to move anything anywhere because US companies has no production.
All this means is, ironically, being hostile to China and talking big about moving production away from China are the worst thing you can do to achieve that goal, no Chinese supplier will help you if you act like that.
India is learning this the hard way.

taxiya said:

Another important point if not the most important is that country only stay unified if there is a dominant identity, it don't have to be ethnic but most often it is. USSR with more than half population being varias ethnicities broke but not Russia where Russian ethnity is dominant. USSR tried to creat a new identity based on new ideology and beliefs but didn't have the time which would need hundreds years. Yogoslavia was another example. In the arab world, identity of country or even Arab is less a thing than tribe, religion and religious sectors. There are countless examples elsewhere.

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You are absolutely right. But USSR collapsed precisely because Russians no longer believed in the communist ideology and want to ditch the other nationalities, who were perceived to be leeching off Russians. It was an implosion from the inside.