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Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Trump: Move to the US to avoid tariffs.

Tech companies: India it is!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

Which has the highest tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They literally have manufacturing facilities in the US as well due to the IBM acquisition. This article seems to gloss over the reality of them being globally diverse for a while.

HP and Dell manufacture more in PRC.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, there’s no evidence that this is because of tariffs. Companies don’t make big moves like this after only a week of changes.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So trump won’t tariff India?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

Probably his brain is rotted and the last thing he remembers is that last thing someone told him.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Why would he? India is no really a challenge.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yet.

All it would take is for him to have a bad interaction with someone vaguely Indian and he’ll throw down a tariff.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep. Remind him that Kamala Harris has half Indian ancestry and he'll be ready to colonize it right after Panama, Greenland, and Canada.

[+] [email protected] -39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

He's not going to colonize these countries. You have to be dumb to believe he's serious when he says that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Facist bootlicker says "what"?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude, it might be time to start taking the fascist in office backed by the richest Nazi in the world a bit more seriously. You'd either hafta be dumb or sickeningly out of touch to think you can just sit back and assume he's joking.

[+] [email protected] -17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I never said he's joking. He's negotiating. Some type of psychological warfare. He's pressuring countries into doing what he wants out if fear what he's going to say next. And in addition to that, he's flooding the media with so much bs that they can't keep up with his actual agenda.

Your hate makes you not think clearly. You need to start thinking in strategies and tactics. In power and economics.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He isn't as smart as you seem to think he is.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don't have to be particularly smart to be manipulative. In fact, it's probably because he's not very smart that he finds these solutions to his goals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Right that's why he acts purely out of spite and emotion, dismantling anything Biden did, putting his name on it, then claiming its better. He's not smart or manipulative, he's just a fool who can't take no for an answer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He demonstrated that he is senile when he blamed the current trade agreements on the president who signed the last agreement. Trump signed the last agreement. He can't remember.

That's why he changes from tariff off to tariff on every week. He has no plan. He has lost his memory.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 21 hours ago

Eh. That seems like wishful thinking. He just blamed it on "the other guy" because his base is gullible and ill-informed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

True but he doesn't need to. It's the door in face technique

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Reality check should've set in for you the first month he was in office. All of the things he's been saying that he'll do if he got elected again. He did more than a quarter of those things within the first week. We have 4 years with this asshole now and the only silver lining is the mid-terms, provided there will even be a mid-term election next year.

He has already done 32% of the things he's promised to do and that's just all within one month. Do you think he's bluffing? When he said he was going to throw tariffs on countries he feels is at fault for the problems in america, he did so. When he said he was going to fire lots of people, he did. When he said he was going to pardon everyone possible for January 6th, he did. There's still more to come, too.

And you think he's joking?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Here is a bit of logic for you. Either you believe what he says, or you don’t. If you do, then you should realize the kind of dangerous place he’s pushing US towards. If you don’t, then there is no reason he should be a president and you should not be depending him. So which is it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Either you believe what he says, or you don’t.

That's a false dichotomy. 10% of what Trump says is true but 90% of what he says is insane, so 9% of what Trump says should legitimately concern everyone. Because we don't know which 10% is true, we have to be concerned about everything he says.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

Second.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, because tariffs are only reserved to large competitors on the world stage like, check notes, Canada?

[–] PerogiBoi 11 points 1 day ago

Hahahahahahhahahahahaha

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/international-relations/trump-calls-out-india-massive-tariffs-make-us-trade-unfair/ar-AA1Av7Ew

[–] troyunrau 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're applying logic when logic doesn't apply. Why would he tarriff Canada?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

India is no really a challenge.

And Canada is?

[+] [email protected] -20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. Canada and Mexico are transit countries for products coming from China. Plus, he wants to reduce Fentanyl (but I doubt this is the real reason).

[–] cygnus 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes. Canada and Mexico are transit countries for products coming from China.

What? No.

Plus, he wants to reduce Fentanyl (but I doubt this is the real reason).

Yeah, we all doubt it: 0.2% of US fentanyl came form Canada. Zero point two percent!

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Enlighten us. What is the reason?

[–] cygnus 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Our Prime Minister and Foreign Minister believe Trump is using tariffs to force an annexation of Canada, just as his idol McKinley tried in 1870 (he also failed miserably)

[+] [email protected] -15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

You just answered it yourself. It failed miserably and it will obviously fail again. Nobody can seriously believe that the USA colonizes Canada. Consequently, it can't be the reason for the tarriffs.

[–] cygnus 5 points 22 hours ago

Nobody seriously believes Project 2025 is real, or that the USA will backstab Ukraine, or that they would turn against the rest of NATO, or threaten to kick Canada out of Five eyes, or...

When will you fucking guys wake up? Your country is being taken from you and you're all standing around like "nuh-uh, no one can be stupid enough to do that!" Well I have news for you: there are people that stupid, and half of your countrymen are equally stupid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Nobody can seriously believe that the USA colonizes Canada.

Nobody could seriously believe a US President would allow an unelected billionaire into the halls of power and society to tear it down from the inside, but here were are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Trump has a game going here where he alienates and punishes our allies, hands control of foreign aid to China, snuggles up to Russia, invites Hungary over for dinner, stops backing Europe militarily, and fits all the War Department warning signs for what to watch for in a dictator in America. That's the part we know.

Whatever he's up to, it's not the status quo. The pressure from the tariffs can just be part of this larger game. As can the annexation threat. But that's the part we don't know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

You seem to be operating under the assumption that Trump isn't an over confident idiot with terrible ideas. Unfortunately for your narrative, he's straight-up said that he wants to annex these places. So, Trump seriously believes that the USA can colonize Canada.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

trump is deeply unserious.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Winning

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What will happen is that the Chinese government will just take over manufacturing and plants and continue to make the same products under a Chinese name, the same way Russia rebranded a lot of companies that left then when the war started.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

under a Chinese name

Lenovo is already a Chinese company. They're just moving production for US bound products somewhere else. I guarantee most of their production will still be in China.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

These companies will never come back.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Come back where? China?

Come, not coke