SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 months agoXi Got Lucky This Year. He Shouldn’t Get Used to Ithexbear.netimagemessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1140arrow-down1imageXi Got Lucky This Year. He Shouldn’t Get Used to Ithexbear.netSexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.net to the_dunk_tank@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square39fedilinkfile-text
https://archive.ph/9a20k The massive and nonsense is off the charts. Here’s to an even “luckier” 2024.
minus-squareTachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 months agoAmerica in 1980: Relied on China for 2% of its imports America in 2020: Relied on China for 20% of its imports is it luck?
minus-squarecharlie [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-211 months agoI think it’s closer to like 95% if you pull back the layer of Chinese exports going to Canada/Japan/Mexico for assembly and then being imported to the US. Those show as Canadian/Japanese/Mexican imports in figures which I find misleading.
minus-squareTachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThat’s a very good point I hadn’t considered
America in 1980: Relied on China for 2% of its imports
America in 2020: Relied on China for 20% of its imports
is it luck?
I think it’s closer to like 95% if you pull back the layer of Chinese exports going to Canada/Japan/Mexico for assembly and then being imported to the US. Those show as Canadian/Japanese/Mexican imports in figures which I find misleading.
That’s a very good point I hadn’t considered