[TrapLord_Rhodo]

Not OP, but the way i read their comment is the problems only become apparent in the long term.

When you do a cost to benefit analysis on china it always sounds great.

Yeah, you have to deal with a couple minor PR blunders since you are hiring slave labor, 2-3 weeks ARO boat time kinda sucks but they are fair trade offs for World class manufacturing for half the cost, and obscene payment terms since the CCP is involved in the deal making (120 days Payment terms on each milestone for CapEx is normal in china).

Only do you realise that you are manufacturing in a entirely foreign regime and that regime can do whatever it wants do you realise it's a problem. You are at their whim from a import/ export tax, wars (trade, economic and real), etc.

But all the benefits are real and easy to quanitify. The negatives are ethical and imagined until they are not.