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US Ban on Xinjiang cotton is likely reducing Western artillery shell production
(johnsonwkchoi.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2024
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I don't get this point. If china can't export cotton or cotton clothes why does it need to import more?
Also, I imagine that fast fashion is also contributing to this cotton shortage. It would be funny if this is what causes western governments to finally do something about fast fashion.
US/EU won’t import clothes made with Xinjiang cotton, and China makes clothes. In order to export clothes made of cotton to US/EU, they have to import cotton from abroad to make clothes without Xinjiang cotton.
So by banning XJ cotton, the US is forcing China to improve trade relations with third countries. Perfect.
I made this second comment when I dove into the article, and I'm not sure what the adjective is when they say "it". Maybe they meant to suggest that because China can't sell its cotton to the United States, that the United States must import more cotton from abroad, which means the military industrial complex can't take as much cotton from those places as well.
It said there are 80 other countries that export cotton. So maybe the clothing industry in the United States had to import more cotton from those sources... And those sources raised prices or something, may be leading to military industrial partners choosing not to buy as much cotton, therefore reducing how much cotton they had.
But I'm just taking a guess because that was kind of a weird grammar thing they did there.
Nah, they'll just ban all fast fashion coming out of China alone, and then call it good.