Coronavirus: China’s Manufacturing Supply Chain Pummelled from All Sides in Efforts to Restart
February 21st, 2020Let me know if you start to notice product shortages, or unusual events related to the coronavirus situation. Assuming anything major is going to happen outside of China, my guess is that a lot of mainstream media will go with censorship, diversion, and lies for as long as possible.
The only obvious coronavirus related shortages I’ve seen so far where I live (New Zealand) are N95 masks and hand sanitizer.
I walked around my local Warehouse (which is a bit like Walmart) and it’s still packed with mostly low quality garbage from China.
Via: South China Morning Post:
Choked off from suppliers, workers, and logistics networks, China’s manufacturing base is facing a multitude of unprecedented challenges, as coronavirus containment efforts hamper factories’ efforts to reopen.
Many of those that have been granted permission to resume operations face critical shortages of staff, with huge swathes of China still under lockdown and some local workers afraid to leave their homes. Others cannot access the materials needed to make their products, and even if they could, the shutdown of shops and marketplaces around China means demand has been sapped.
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