Despite anti-China propaganda, there's a worldwide buying spree of "made-in-China" in 2020. Trend will strengthen in 2021. China is going from world's factory to world's super factory

China's exports have gone up 20% in 2020. One of the contributing https://twitter.com/Rainman951/status/1343608148850999302?s=19

2/ factors is the wild increase in PPE and other medical supply orders China received from all over the world. As most factories are closed or unable to meet the heavy demands within a short notice, China as world's factory with huge manufacturing capacity has to step in.

3/ The 2021 key product of China's exports would be Chinese vaccines. Given the advantage of safety, effectiveness, easy transportability and affordability, as of now, 40 countries have expressed the purchase intention and 16 countries have already ordered 500 million vaccine

4/ shots from China.

In 2020, China supplied the world with 200 bn masks, 20 bn personal protection garments and 800 million Covid19 test kits.

Notice that in April 2020, seeing China getting so many orders, out of jealousy and spite, several western countries accused

5/ China of faulty PPE. In response, China offered to halt temporarily the sale in order to investigate into the matter. This move struck panic and made these countries shut up. Nastiness and bad faith always backfire.

In reality, Chinese PPE are sought after as gold

6/ on the market which China sells at reasonable price. Numerous countries sent special envoys of airplanes to fetch their orders.

Is the American visceral hatred of China
warranted?

Let's look at China's contribution to the US Covid19 response:

China supplied US

7/ with 40 bn masks, 800 million surgical gloves, 650 million personal protection garments, 47 million pairs of protection eye goggles. On average, every American received 120 masks from China.

For China's essential consumer goods as well, there's literally a buying

8/ spree in the US. Instead of placing tariffs on Chinese goods, US should subsidize Chinese companies in order to gain priority of delivery. Numerous goods, especially digital products are out of stock!

Due to the Covid19, the US exports have gone down 20%, and those of EU

9/ have gone down 10.5%. The deficit is partially picked up by China especially in the domain of medical supplies wherein before Covid19, China had a trade deficit of 800 million US$. During Covid, China had a trade surplus of 36 bn US$.

So without China, US would have been

10/ deprived of PPE and medical supplies, especially respirators during the pandemic. On top of that, shelves of essential consumer goods in supermarkets would have been empty. Money distributed by the US government would be like waste paper. There would be no goods to buy.

11/ Unsurprisingly, China's trade surplus to the US has grown 20% despite the tariffs and anti-China propaganda.

The world has been fighting over China's respirators as well. It's useless to order luxury expensive respirators even if countries have the money to throw away.

12/ It would take several months to deliver. Not very convenient when people are dying every minute. Time is of essence. China can deliver on time thanks to its unparalleled industrial manufacturing capacity.

The pandemic is de facto WWIII. China is playing the role of war time

13/ manufacturer comparable to the US role during the WWII.

Another hostile country India is in the same situation. In April 2020, India sent 24 planes to fetch its medical supply orders amounting to 400 tons in weight.

India had the ambition to replace China

14/ as the world's factory, but not being able to put Covid19 under control renders such ambition null and void. Hating China doesn't help. China is India's biggest trading partner and the biggest investor (Chinese Investments often disguised themselves as originating from

15/ Singapore and Vietnam). Despite the animosity, India's imports from China grew to 18.3% in 2020 as compared to 13. 7% In 2019.

Vietnam had the ambition to replace China as the world's factory as well, but local supply chains are incomplete. Vietnam still has to buy numerous

16/ materials, equipments and spare parts from China pushing up the cost and rendering the relocation not worthwhile.

So in 2021, China will still remain world's factory. Moreover, it will take over the orders of countries hit hard by the Covid, especially India.

17/ The year of 2021 augurs well for China economically. Its GDP is projected to grow by more than 8%.

China is now pivoting to high quality high tech manufacturing. In the near future, made-in-China will become synonymous with affordable high quality products.

18/ China watching is exciting! There's so much good news. West being jealous and spiteful is useless. Chinese people made the sacrifices at the beginning of the year 2020. Western people won't accept and are incapable of going through a hard lockdown of three months.

19/ Chinese people accepted the excruciating constraint. They are reaping the fruits now. As the cliche goes, no pain no gain.

To give you an idea of China's draconian hard lockdown, from one minute to next after the issuance of lockdown order, nobody was allowed to move.

20/ It was just as if everyone was "frozen" by the lava in ancient Pompeii when the volcano erupted. Look at how UK did its lockdown, ie, hundreds of thousands of people were allowed to flee London...
West call it human rights abuses. Chinese call it "sacrifices".