would be worse than NUMBER_TOKEN i'll tell you more after the break welcome back so with the latest round of lockdowns in china things are already looking pretty bad china's lockdowns are causing traffic jams as far away as vietnam car makers volkswagen and toyota both shut their tianjin plants last week in xi'an chipmaker samsung has had trouble getting staffed to work because of the lockdown but with outbreaks of omicron in beijing shanghai and shenzhen the global supply chain is about to be tested again now the good news is the ccp virus exposed how dependent the world was on an unstable authoritarian communist regime so if countries and companies learned their lesson and began to diversify their supply chain so we weren't all totally reliant on china these latest lockdowns won't hit so hard but according to a partner at the mckinsey consultancy firm did anybody really reduce their supply chain risk have they moved their asia-based production back on shore or near shore at scale the answer is no and with the economy already in the gutter another hit from covid will just make things worse the solution stop relying on china stop buying products made in china and encourage companies to manufacture in their home countries or at least in free countries like taiwan taiwan is where it's at and now is the time when i answer questions from you my loyal NUMBER_TOKEN cent army fans of the show support what we do through the crowdfunding websites patreon or the exclusive social media platform locals that jason down the road asks on locals will you all be bringing back the friday community live streams i know the holidays are always extra busy and you all have been moving studios so y'all have been extremely busy lately it seems like an excellent question in case you didn't know we are building a brand new studio that will make it easier to make china uncensored as well as make it easier to do new shows live streams interview guests and so many other things but things are taking a little longer than we planned that's probably something you've heard a lot in the last two years that means we're in between studios at the moment that's why the lighting might look a little weird right now as many of you have said in the comments the good news is our studio should be finished in the next two weeks and the reason we're able to build this new studio to provide you with more and better content is thanks to you that jason down the road and everyone else who supports us on locals locals is an exclusive social media community for china uncensored fans think of it like facebook but just china uncensored one of the perks we'll be offering to our locals community are live streams where you'll get to chat directly with me matt and shelly those will be happening very soon so if you haven't signed up for the china uncensored locals platform do it now that's china URL_TOKEN anyone can join for free and with a monthly subscription you get even more exclusive content just for supporters so come check it out thanks again for your question and your support that jason down the road and thank you for watching once again i'm chris chappell see you next time
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