China is now the world's well-deserved world factory, with the world's most complete industrial system.
Since Trump first came to power and started a war against China and increased tariffs, the United States is also actively looking for alternative countries in the first chain other than China.
The main directions are, India, Mexico, Germany.
Let's start with India.
The disparity between the rich and the poor in India is huge, and the caste system is deeply entrenched.
On March 4 this year, Mukesh Ambani, the richest man in India and the richest man in Asia, held a pre-wedding party for his son Anant Ambani, inviting celebrities from all walks of life around the world to attend, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook founder Zuckerberg, Trump's eldest daughter Ivanka, American pop queen Rihanna and others.
Among them, Rihanna appeared for 90 minutes and sang 19 songs in a row, and the appearance fee was $6 million.
Ambani spent a total of 1200 million pounds, equivalent to 1.1 billion yuan, of course, since Anthony is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, 1.1 billion yuan is nothing at all. The daughter of the former **, the son-in-law and granddaughter, Ivanka, also participated in the pre-marriage queue.
A few days before the richest Asian man in India threw his son a lavish pre-wedding party, on Friday (March 1) night, local time, a 35-year-old Spanish actress was brutally beaten by seven people while traveling on a bicycle in Dumka District, Jharkhand, India.
On the one hand, the super-rich control huge wealth, and on the other hand, there are a large number of slums, ** rampant, and the law and order is extremely bad.
India earns money and India spends, and they want to take it home.
Li Ka-shing, Wal-Mart, Xiaomi and other companies have been sued by India**, and even temporarily changed the law, just to seize the assets of giants.
With India's rule of law and security, it is impossible to compete with China for the status of the world's factory.
Let's move on to Mexico.
Mexico is blessed with a unique geographical location adjacent to the United States, which is why Tesla plans to build a gigafactory in Mexico.
However, Mexico has one major drawback: water shortage. In Mexico, coke may even be cheaper than fresh water.
Mexico's total water supply is about 15 billion cubic meters, and there is news of a nationwide water shortage in Mexico every year.
Tap water** in Mexico City, Mexico's capital, has been severely affected by a prolonged drought, and some 21 million residents of Mexico City have been experiencing water shortages for weeks.
On the black market, a large bucket of water costs as much as $100, and more vehicles deliver water than cash trucks.
During the same period, the total water supply of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in China was about 90 billion cubic meters, and that of Guangdong Province was 40 billion cubic meters.
Like the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, which does not freeze all year round, the total runoff is large enough, but the amount of water in winter and summer is not much different (about five times), and there are few rivers in the world with an outlet in the temperate zone, and there are two in China.
China, a country that is indeed the chosen one, is destined to rise.
These two large rivers in China not only provide endless fresh water, but also provide more than 4 billion tons of low-cost transportation capacity.
This is the confidence of China to become the world's factory.
By comparison, India supplies less than 80 billion cubic metres of water as a whole.
Finally, Germany, Germany's industry has a strong heritage, and Tesla has also built a gigafactory in Berlin, Germany.
However, water scarcity has also begun in Germany, and from 1990 to the present, the overall per capita water use in Germany has been on a downward trend. Coupled with the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, Germany has banned the import of natural gas and other energy from Russia, which has pushed up Germany's energy costs.
In addition, environmentalism is prevalent in Germany, and various forces are acting out of ulterior conspiracy to create obstacles to large factories through environmental protection.
On March 5, Tesla Inc., the Glenheide Gigafactory near Berlin, Germany, stopped production due to a power outage. The power outage was caused by arson of the local power supply by extreme weather activists.
In this regard, Tesla's CEO was puzzled: "These people are either the stupidest eco*** on the planet or the puppets of those who don't have good environmental goals." ”
As an environmentalist, instead of making trouble for the company that produces fossil fuel cars, he makes trouble for the company that makes electric vehicles.
These extremists are just the tip of the iceberg.
With the increasing competition and geopolitical pressure on Germany, Germany wants to replace China as the world's factory, but it cannot do so under the pressure of strong internal resistance and water shortage.
China's current status as the world's factory is a combination of China's resource endowment, the intelligence and diligence of the Chinese, coupled with the guarantee of China's strong military strength, and various factors are affected together.
Throughout the world, there is no other country that can replace China.