Reply To: US/China Trade War

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Personally I think this is probably a tempest in a teapot for 3 reasons:

1: It probably won’t really effect mini makers that much since the big market for minis is actually the UK and to a lesser extant the EU, they can just send them directly there (This blog/forum is mostly done by UKers for UKers, when WGF a Chinese tooling company had a public forum a good chunk of those folks where UKers, mantic and GW along with most of the other big players are UK companies along with their preferred mill, when you don’t have UK friendly shipping for your plastic mini KS it tends to die, etc).

2: printing card broad components should be do able in the USA (if it isn’t already happening), and if there is a demand for “special” printers  that are not in the US, I believe we still have the companies and factories capable of building them the only issue might be the individual parts, but that’s what machine shops and 3D printers are for (and I know we have both of those).

3: Finally the ball hasn’t even dropped yet and it is possible, that either China will cave or congress and the executive branch will reconsider after talking about big business.  The tabletop, toy, and general hobby markets are the small fries in this power play, I would be more interested in what the bigger markets like smartphones makers are doing. Besides China is kinda of unstable right they can’t really afford to play chicken.

And I could be totally wrong about this but I think most companies and people who are working with Chinese on KS for gaming have had some advanced warning of this, just judging  by the KS costs and shipping of the ones for plastics I have been backing.

P.S.: Nobody is going drop nukes over the plastic trade, (if they didn’t drop them it over Vietnam or the cold war,  they are not going to do it over plastic, and all the groups that actually have nukes are too scared to actually use them even when they probably should, those bombs are just glorified bargaining chips on the geopolitical poker table). Oh and the great depression at least for the USA was extend by FDR’s New Deal policies very clearly, not a trade war or isolationism (though I doubt those helped any lol).