5 places where companies are moving their supply chains outside China

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China is losing its place as the center of the world's supply chains. Here are 5 places supply chains are going instead.

China is the factory of the world, but the COVID-19 has shown the world needs more than China to keep supply chains robust.China's COVID policies are pushing companies to diversify supply chains away from the country.India, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Bangladesh are stepping up to replace the world's factory.

China has been the factory of the world for the last 4 decades. The pandemic triggered a reckoning of this status.Chen Shichuan/VCG/Getty Images Global manufacturing powerhouse China's rise as the world's factory spanned over four decades and ushered in an era of globalization and integrated supply chains.launched a trade war against the East Asian giantWhile some investors did move parts of their manufacturing facilities out of China at the time, it was really the pandemic — and China's zero-COVID policy — that drove home the importance of not depending on one country for manufacturing needs.

"The geopolitical tensions in themselves may not have resulted into this level of realignment of supply chains, but COVID certainly provided that extra vision extra fillip, the extra fuel to the fire," Ashutosh Sharma, a research director at market research firm Forrester, toldAnd the effects of the trade war continue to linger.

To navigate this complicated web of US-China trade tensions, multinationals are now more than ever, looking to hedge their business risks.India is trying to unseat China in higher-end manufacturing, with iPhone maker Apple and chipmakers eyeing its vast lands and young population.With it's vast lands and large, young population, India is a natural alternative to China as the world's factory.

 

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In effect, Xi destroyed China’s economy.

It's not so much as losing it, as it is passing it along, as did the US. It is simply China's turn as it's majority now turn to consumerism from being the US's manufacturing plant.

This needs to keep happening and spreading to more countries and leave China behind. They just steal everyone’s IP and make cheap knock offs and keep feeding the CCP

Wishful thinking, mostly

中国正在失去其作为世界供应链中心的地位。以下是供应链的5个地方。

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