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Chinese manufacturing has already taken a big hit by this virus drama. The Chinese governments subsidy to postage costs making it free for most consumer items, won't help either because the poverty we exported to create a low-wage economy has shifted to other countries like Vietnam.

Chinese average pay has also risen, making their business environment less attractive. Cheap labour lives outside of China now. In time a shift in sectoral balances along with other economic factors will see China as a less favourable location with shrinking resources and rising costs. There's a reason physical gold is fleeing mainland China.

Our own govt. will not add tariffs to Chinese goods. They have never cared about you or your interests. They are busy brown-nosing for Chinese investment in our power and other infrastructure projects.

Meantime we get shoddy cheap Chinese fakes because Chinese folk have no concept of quality assurance or intellectual property. They're communists after all and don't think for themselves. Don't buy anything metallic. Chinese are notorious for cheap alloys made of scrap metal of various types and quality. Almost guaranteed failure.

Seems to me that the China fad will fadeout and all your cheap gear will come from a new poverty blackspot. Not right now, in time.