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Originally Posted by WarrenC12

Except when most of what Amazon and Walmart sells is made in China.

It might be different with big ticket items like cars. Who knows what additional tariffs would be on those vehicles too.

Given that China has restated its going to keep pursuing Covid Zero, economic decoupling may come about as a result of economic forces rather than political ones. Who want to live with that kind of supplier uncertainty?

Chinese censors scrub internet after senior party official gives speech on timeline of zero-Covid in Beijing
By Yong Xiong, Wayne Chang and Hannah Ritchie, CNN
Updated 12:05 PM ET, Mon June 27, 2022

(CNN)Chinese censors scrambled to delete what appears to be a misleading quote by a senior Communist Party official published in state media Monday, which claimed the "zero-Covid" policy would remain in place in Beijing "for the next five years," in an effort to tame an online backlash.

Beijing Daily, the official Communist Party newspaper for the Chinese capital, earlier reported that the city's party chief, Cai Qi, said Monday that "for the next five years, Beijing will resolutely implement Covid-19 pandemic control measures and uphold the 'zero-Covid' policy to prevent imported cases from coming in and domestic cases from rebounding."

The reported reference by Cai, who is a close ally of Chinese President Xi Jinping, to "the next five years" sparked a huge backlash on Chinese social media. In response, Beijing Daily removed the line, describing it as an "editing error" while leaving his other remarks about pandemic controls intact....

...."I have to rethink whether I should continue to stay in Beijing in the long term," one user wrote on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform.

"For the next five years...what is the point of being alive even," another user said.

Weibo has since banned the hashtag "for the next five years" from its platform...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/27/asia/...ntl/index.html