@ponypony221
>The vast majority of what is produced in the west is intangible and largely worthless in real terms: entertainment, banking, internet services, design, luxury goods, and high tech goods (assembly).
I completely understand that impression. The rust belt exists for a reason and certainly the mix of cheap plastic, and more importantly, electrical gadgets all from China really do give that impression. Again though, not only including Officer Hotpants point on us being where they get all the money,
some significant interdependence still exists Like for example, Australia resources. Even in with the United States with’s it’s massive defunct with China, over 100 billion in exports
back to China is still nothing to laugh at if it was to fracture. In fact, the majority of the USA’s exports to China are
not services.
Not all industries in the US are dying either.
Like Semiconductor manufacturing and other industries are making big bets on a lot of US factories right now. More likely than not with tension we will see a partial decoupling of some strategic areas in the next decade naturally, as China and the USA start to shield ever larger amounts of certain industries in protectionism and maybe that could change things, but right now, it is still part of a global market that will hurt very badly very quickly if it was to suddenly snap apart.
These is the statistics for 2021,
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@Dex Stewart
Not all of them. Russian neo nazi groups are still firmly, albeit, awkwardly, sticking with their country, from what I hear. Some even echoing the denazify rhetoric. Don’t ask me how that works.