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Should be a wild four years.

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Have seen a lot of people who apparently think factory automation means a cartoon-like big robot machine that eats raw material and spits out finished product with no further human input, instead of the more common form where production is broken down into a step by step process of forming components from raw material and separately assembling those components into finished product, where each step could technically be performed by hand but has a dedicated machine set up to repeatably do just that one step.
Even the ones that do complex processes all in one go like stamping out beverage cans or folding milk cartons, it's just combining steps - a worker still has to operate the thing and feed it material, it's not set and forget.
Another fun thing to consider is how many parts per hour that one cartoon machine can make. If it takes it 30 minutes to make one part, there's no way it can keep up with a well trained machine line which moves parts through the process one by one, which means 20 machines are constantly running rather than one, and the technical throughput of the machine line should be the cycle speed of the slowest machine. If the slowest machine can make 10 parts per hour, it blows the production of the all in one machine away.
 
Lets uh, review this leaked "tariff countermeasures," shall we?
We have also received some latest news on specific countermeasures against US tariffs . China has prepared at least six major measures.
1. Significantly increase tariffs on U.S. agricultural products such as soybeans and sorghum.

Sources said that in view of the recent bullying behavior of the United States, China is considering significantly increasing tariffs on U.S. agricultural products such as soybeans and sorghum.
2. Prohibit the import of U.S. poultry meat into China.
Sources pointed out that in view of the frequent outbreaks of avian influenza in the United States, relevant parties strongly recommended that China ban the import of American poultry to ensure the food safety of the Chinese people.
3. Suspend China-US cooperation on fentanyl.
It was revealed that the Chinese government is considering stopping its fentanyl cooperation with the U.S. due to the U.S.'s threat to impose another 50% tariff. The reason is simple: the U.S. has completely ignored China's humanitarian assistance, not only does it not understand China's sincerity and goodwill, but it has also smeared, blamed and shifted the blame, which has seriously damaged the foundation of China-US fentanyl cooperation.
4. Countermeasures in the services trade sector.
The source also revealed that this includes restricting U.S. companies from participating in procurement and restricting business cooperation such as legal consulting. The U.S. has a long-term trade surplus in services with China, and the so-called "reciprocal tariffs" of the U.S. government will undoubtedly bring serious crisis to the U.S. service exports, which currently have a huge trade surplus.
5. Ban the import of American films.
According to relevant experts, in view of the U.S. threat to escalate tariffs on China , relevant departments are studying reducing or even banning the import of American films.
6. Investigate the benefits that U.S. companies have gained from intellectual property in China.
According to sources, in view of the huge monopoly profits obtained by relevant U.S. companies in China, relevant departments are studying to investigate the above situation.

1, 2. China imports our food and invented Gutter Oil. I don't think even India would think of using used sewage to deep fry food in, but given that video in the India thread about an Indian influencer eating a still warm cow patty off the ground, fucking maybe. If they could get it cheaply, I guess? Either way, them complaining about our food safety is a joke (especially since they almost definitely caused COVID19 because they sold test animals to a wet market) and a counter tariff on our ag industry is laughable when we're literally feeding them.

3. China is blatantly threatening to kill Americans here, since fentanyl is flooding our country because of China. Trump should declare various pharmaceutical companies in China terrorist organizations and target them with drone strikes. Maybe embargo Mexico's ports and inspect all deliveries from China for fent?

4. This is them saying they'll cut our elites off from getting kickbacks and bribes from China, right?

5. Oh god oh please oh god oh please. It would wreck Hollywood, but it would also force Hollywood to stop making chink friendly chinkslop, too. It's a win win.

6. "We'll steal your IP. I mean we already do, but now we'll blatantly do it."

Do I have it about right?
 
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