James Thompson
speaker
6,026 appearances
19 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
James Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Tech factory and that is a challenge for countries like Germany who consider themselves the high tech factory of the world for so long and they're finding out that's not right.
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happening
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Volkswagen,
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I reckon there's a couple of lessons.
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Big one for Australia is, you know, we had the original China Shock when China sort of started urbanizing, entered the World Trade Organization, really brought its economy into the 21st century.
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That played out and it was great for the Australian economy for twenty-five years.
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This is the China Shock 2.0.
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It's been called that by a lot of economists.
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It's exporting this high-tech stuff to the rest of the world.
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At the moment, it's working for Australia because w our steel is still going into, you know, manufacturing cars, all that stuff.
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They still need our resources.
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Will it change over time?
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Does Europe eventually say to China, nah, we're done here.
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Tariffs go up on your Chinese EVs.
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We can't have you flooding our markets anymore.
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And if that happens, does Chinese demand for Australian resources change?
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Change.
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I mean that's more of a question than a lesson, but I think it's a really interesting thing.
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Like China remains the key export market for Australia.
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So we're a sort of adjacent part of this story.
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