GE Appliances is a subsidiary of the Haier company, which is based in China. Most people do not know that. GE Appliances are Chinese appliances.
The recent headline about GE Appliances moving their production from China to the USA (Kentucky), is simply an outcome of the need for GE to avoid steel, aluminum and reciprocal trade tariffs. This is not complicated.
FOX NEWS – GE Appliances on Thursday said it would spend $490 million to move the production of most of its washing machines from China to Kentucky.
The operation will move to the company’s massive industrial Appliance Park headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, where it already manufactures washers and dryers. At least 800 new full-time jobs are expected to be created, the company said in a news release.
“We are bringing laundry production to our global headquarters in Louisville because manufacturing in the U.S. is fundamental to our ‘zero-distance’ business strategy to make appliances as close as possible to our customers and consumers,” said GE Appliances president and CEO Kevin Nolan. “This decision is our most recent product reshoring and aligns with the current economic and policy environment.”
The investment will bring more than 15 washer models to Building 2 in Appliance Park at the company headquarters, bringing the total area of clothes care production to the equivalent of 33 football fields. (more)
I just read a zerohedge article. Says China economy is spiraling with no end in sight. I don’t wish this on the Chinese people but I sure do on the CCP. I want them to fail big time and never rise again.
Article says China is dealing with the most severe economic crisis in its history and will not recover. They are experiencing real estate crisis, banking crisis, youth unemployment crisis and now US trade tariffs and declining trade threatens their economic advantage, which is its trade surplus with the United States.
i want to see the end of the CCP. Their horrible abuses to their own people are the reason.
The Chinese people will do.
Question is, will they CHOOSE well?
I can only hope
Chinese people like the US have no say. They do what the politicians want them to do which is in the best interests to of the politicians
The American voters have choices when we vote. The chinese people don’t. Don’t blame the American politicians. Blame the American voters. In the US, the elected representatives work for us. We don’t work for them. In china, the people answer to the ccp.
The American people have been duped as the Chinese people. Just different scripts, IMHO.
China is a bad world citizen – they do not play fairly and honestly with the rest of the world.
They still practice slavery.
They steal intelligence, patent technology and production.
Then they send us toxic baby and dog food, sub-grade steel, wall board full of lead, bakeware that explodes in the oven.
They pollute and over-fish our oceans and their own waters and land.
They have been depopulated. The 1.4 billion was a myth. COVID policy smashed the population. Cities are emptying out except for HK Beijing, shanghai, and guandzou. Youth unemployment at 30%, marriage rates and fertility rates plummeting. Deposit withdrawal caps at banks. Empty highrises, empty shops. Belt and road partners/colonies getting resistant. Multinational Corps are decapitalizing in China in favor of India. It is all fairly well hidden, but word is getting out. Watch for china to instigate more skirmishes between paki and india. Trouble is brewing in China.
You sound like Kyle Bass, and I mean that as a compliment.
Yes. I have subscribed to and been following this woman “Lei” who has been steadily reporting on issues inside China that the rest of the mainstream media and the CCP have been largely keeping out of their reporting.
https://www.youtube.com/live/7VQA6uNkRwA?si=e342OzAcZo4Royoe
Here is what Lei posts on her website about her own background:
https://leisrealtalk.com/about-lei/
“I was born and raised in communist China. When the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations broke out in China, I was a student in the United States. Watching journalists at CBS, CNN, and others covering the events live in Tiananmen Square, I was greatly moved by American media’s courage in supporting the Chinese people’s fight for freedom and in covering the truth. However, I soon realized the truth didn’t always reach China.
After working in the financial services industry for over a decade, and concerned about the 1.3 billion Chinese people’s lack of access to uncensored information, I quit my job in finance and worked for independent media companies specializing in bringing uncensored information into and out of China. During that period, I witnessed how much influence the CCP has in the United States, particularly among the elites, and how most Americans are unaware of the CCP’s infiltration.”
In one of her recent videos, which I posted in CTH (cant recall which thread), she explained how the 1.3 Billion number has shrunk to maybe 300-400M (her best estimate using multiple data points to arrive at that number)
Bamboo scaffolding actually works. Saving construction workers through an injury, not so much.
?? Not sure of the context here….
Indeed. I much appreciate you keeping my mind from raging ahead.
I worked as a designer on the Great Wall hotel decades ago. The construction work lost about 30 people…from what I know, the bamboo scaffolding worked, but the Chinese government did not quite help anyone with injuries to survive.
Oh wow! Where is the Great Wall Hotel that you designed located?
Beijing. One small participant in a field of thousands. Yet, I was the assistant for the Project Interior Designer, so lots of work. Crazy stories for another day1
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Basically, a UFO for China!!! LOLOL!!!!!!
Fake cities were a pretty good marker.
Worked with the Chinese for decades. They always lie, cheat and steal.
When your own country cannot teach critical thinking, you are doomed. We have a similar growing problem…
Any freedom-loving person would love to see the fall of the CCP. The question is will they go down without a fight? That said, I’m thinking perhaps an invasion of Taiwan would help their “financials?” Obviously, to this point they have shown little concern for human life and who knows what a desperate person, or regime, will do? Just a thought.
And who makes the Chinese weapons?
The return of China ‘owned’ GE Corp to the US is not what Trump meant IMHO; just because they are returning the manufacturing to US; the profits will be their government’s, the taxes on workers will go to Our ‘government’…………… is that economics 101???;
Our national sovereignty is further eroded!
God Help US
Foreign owned ‘companies’, farms, cities, and towns are not good for US. It will look like the economy is ‘good’; but is our sovereignty going to remain intact?? World economics is a disaster looking to happen; worldwide!! Taxation and ‘building’ other countries ‘ economies is not the road to freedom. Neither is controlling other governments via commerce, etc.
I may be totally off base, but ‘monopolies’, worldwide monopolies, will be more detrimental to every nation. China will be the manufacturing monopolizer, the US will be the military monopolizer, Europe will be the money market monopolizer, and the beat goes on. The beat of the NWO does not get my toe tapping!
The world is being manipulated……..
Trump has dealt with Iran. He has dealt with China. Now I hope he deals with the cartels. From what I’ve been reading they are now sneakily moving into Canada. HELP!!
I dumped GE years ago. I concluded that they sold inferior products. Now I know why they were inferior.
It has been suggested that one “nudging” of China’s 100 Year Plan is introducing endemic negative effects of high failure rates of Chinese consumer products into US society.
There are some exceptions, like smartphones, but overall Chinese-made consumer products don’t last nearly as long as the legacy products they replace.
A US- made refrigerator would last 30 years or more, how long will a Chinese-made refrigerator last? Based on consumer grade Chinese dehumidifiers which usually fail after only one or two humid seasons, one may predict: Far less than 30 years.
The degradation extends to US and other consumer products manufacturers too, as the parts are increasingly sourced from China.
Dysfunctions multiply when a society is dealing with higher failure rates of everything. Degradation disguised as benefit (lower prices).
An insidious powerful downward push on the US, from the same culture that produced Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” promoting the highest art of how to subdue your enemy without fighting.
We need an aggressive honest (not bribed and bought) watchdog agency to monitor Chinese products (including our pharmaceuticals) for quality and content.
Back before the early FDA was born, US manufacturers would put toxic substances in flour, etc. to make money off the US consumer.
Now, as we have seen, our government watchdog and even our health agencies have also been corrupted and must be restored to integrity.
The US must continually watch and punish wrong-doing.
“Now, as we have seen, our government watchdog and even our health agencies have also been corrupted and must be restored to integrity.”
How do you propose to do that?
In a nation that has become irredeemably corrupted and as a result is now under God’s judgement?
Where wrong-doing US government agencies pretend to watch and punish wrong-doing?
“There are some exceptions, like smartphones…”
Smartphones aren’t made well to satisfy the user, they’re made well to facilitate proper tracking of the user.
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Last Gasp of the Landfill EconomyIt seems we’re supposed to mourn the last gasp of The Landfill Economy. Perhaps we should celebrate its demise.
Globalization’s great gift wasn’t low prices–it was the collapse of durability, transforming the global economy into a Landfill Economy of shoddy products made of low-cost components guaranteed to fail, poor quality control, planned obsolescence and accelerated product cycles–all hyper-profitable, all to the detriment of consumers and the planet.
Globalization also accelerated another hyper-profitable gambit: . Since all the products are now made with the same low-quality components, they all fail regardless of brand or price. The $2,000 refrigerator lasts no longer than the $700 fridge. Since the manufacturers and retailers all know the products are destined for the landfill by either design or default, warranties are uniformly one-year–and it’s semi-miraculous if the consumer can find anyone to act on replacing or repairing the failed product even with the warranty.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/04/last-gasp-of-landfill-economy.html
All trouble shooting is now online. What if someone isnt online? I guess the small % of people not online are acceptable….at least they won’t post a bad review.
Hopefully their economy doesn’t crash to the point that they start a war as a last desperate act.
Gosh – Haier sounds so German. And GE was once so American. China has aggressed on our economy and corporations as well as schools and politics – and land (since they have polluted their own land).
The board of my 20 year old Whirlpool double wall oven died and I’m having to replace it with a GE because it best matches the size and function of my old oven and the size of the cutout in my cabinets. It matches depth and width exactly, but I’ll have to get my carpenter to shave 5/8 of the height of the cutout.
Which companies and products are thoroughly American nowadays? A couple of years ago, I did get a truly US company – Speed Queen – washer and dryer when my 14 year old Maytag died. Maybe it will last my lifetime.
We bought a Speed Queen washer & dryer four years ago. We already had to have the service company out to fix the dryer under warranty. Apparently the warranty used to be for ten years and is now only for five years. That says loads about the quality to me. I would still have gone Speed Queen. The cost of a service call is about the cost of a new entry level machine.
That is ridiculous, right?
I don’t think it’s only Chinese companies—planned obsolescence is really a thing. Companies use it to drive profit. The issue is, if you buy their products and they are crap, you’ll buy someone else’s product next time. But what if theirs is crap too?
I still have a Maytag washer from 30 years ago…and I love it. After going through 3 “smart washers” loaded with electronics in 18 years, I ditched them and went with a Speed Queen 5 years ago. I love my “dumb” washer…just knobs and a button. I take care of 12 grandchildren on a weekly basis and the machine gets a workout… it should last my lifetime too!
The Whirlpool Corporation is still HQ’d in Benton Harbor, MI. You have to check individual products in their brands – Whirlpool, Maytag, Kitchen Aid, Amana, JennAir – for US manufacture, though. I think most Maytags are US made.
My last gas range was a Maytag: it worked very well and didn’t need service in the 6 years I owned it; but finishes were more scratch-prone than I expected and the oven door was slightly dented. My new range to be delivered next week will be a Frigidaire (Electrolux, Sweden), strongly recommended by my sister.
It is simply sad that a once-venerable name like Edison’s “General Electric” ever fell into Chinese hands.
Unfortunately, that company as it began to shatter had a seemingly-endless history of mismanagement. But fortunately, “Tom” was long gone by then . . .
GE followed the same basic path of decline as Boeing:
Greedy sociopaths took over and overloaded* / squeezed out the engineering talent to increase short-term profit, outsourcing too much design and manufacturing, then overpressuring the engineers even more to try and force things to work anyway.
Both corporations have declined to a vestige of what they once were.
Schadenfreude here.
(* Sick Sigma projects on top of 60-80 hour workweeks with a mandate to fire the bottom 10% every year: Fear, intimidation, overload. A recipe for failure unless the workforce is indentured serfs and 20-something year old wunderkind bros without a life outside of the job, the Space-X model. Also the reference model for DOGE government workforce cuts, absolutely a recipe for failure – as playing out now with DoD civilians.)
“I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.”–Ronald Reagan
The GE Years: What Made Reagan Reagan — History News Network:
“…Ronald Reagan developed a vision of America during his GE years. He learned to reduce his views to a few simple precepts and, as he entered politics, he went over the heads of party leaders, using the banquet circuit and television to present his powerful message. Opposition leaders often responded by coming to him to stop the flow of questions from their constituents. This was done between elections. When legislation was called for (e.g. California welfare reform and federal tax reform, both of which were revolutionary in scope), Reagan utilized his considerable negotiating skills — honed as he observed Boulware and at the bargaining table over the Screen Actors contracts – as he later did with Mikhail Gorbachev in four dramatic summits.
It is impossible to set out in this short article the evolution and the entirety of Ronald Reagan’s development as a conservative and a politician during the years that he worked for General Electric. His methods of absorbing massive amounts of material, of writing and delivering his speeches, were unique. Perhaps the most persuasive statements confirming his education during his General Electric years come from the Reagans themselves. In her autobiography, Nancy Reagan wrote that “If you believe, as Ronnie does, that everything happens for a purpose, then certainly there was a hidden purpose in Ronnie’s job for General Electric.”” …….
ps; Pastor Troy Brewer teaches that as we enter the New Kingdom Era, we will not wallow in fear of the future or cling to nostalgia for the past. We will flow with the Holy Spirit as our God does a New Thing in His New Era, Hallelujah!
Isaiah 43
16-21
This is what God says,
the God who builds a road right through the ocean,
who carves a path through pounding waves,
The God who summons horses and chariots and armies—
they lie down and then can’t get up;
they’re snuffed out like so many candles:
“Forget about what’s happened;
don’t keep going over old history.
Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new.
It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it?
There it is! I’m making a road through the desert,
rivers in the badlands.
Wild animals will say ‘Thank you!’
—the coyotes and the buzzards—
Because I provided water in the desert,
rivers through the sunbaked earth,
Drinking water for the people I chose,
the people I made especially for myself,
a people custom-made to praise me.
There is none like You, Almighty Father!
That explains why GE appliances are junk.
The China CCP threat is long term, primary and pervasive on many fronts from many angles. This post from FBIDD Dan Bongino is very reassuring and inspiring!
https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1939284637332779409
From the linked Bongino X post:
“And, I’ll say again, we are absolutely NOT asking for anyone’s “trust.” We are in the results business, and the trust will come as the results materialize. “
“Results” as in “We will produce a few highly publicized cases of prosecuted corruption, to fool America into thinking we are rooting out corruption, while the endemic corruption continues” ?
This is the guy who stood with frightened-looking Kash and insisted Epstein killed himself.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/megyn-kelly-bongino-patel-looked-hostages-while-claiming-epstein-did-kill-himself
Chinese washers are full of plastic pars that wear out in a few years and result in large repair costs. When Americans built washers with steel parts they would last for a decade or two and still never need much service.
AND GE will remain a Chinese Company manufacturing their products here in the US. ‘Made in the USA’ will loose it’s true meaning. IMHO
Well I guess it’s time for a boycott.
Early this month marked my 56th anniversary in the steel fabrication business. My industry has seen such big changes over the last half-century, and not for the better!
We were an East Baltimore job shop, hiring locals from Dundalk and Highlandtown and teaching them on the job to be welders, fitters, machinests and layout men…until the Federal government came into the area, paying unskilled workers wages we couldn’t afford to pay.
…then the federal money dried up and the government left behind an industrial slum of hundreds of abandoned factories and warehouses that either fell into ruin or got converted to swank waterfront condos bought up by DC government workers willing to commute from Baltimore.
Charm City was no longer!
I’m almost 78 and the last time the lot of blue collar workers improved around here, I was a 14 year old, pretending to be 16 so I could work in my Dad’s machine shop.
Then Trump 47 made the unthinkable happen…blue collar wages have spiked 1.7 in his first five months in office…the first time that’s happened since the early 60’s! And factories are moving back to America like I’ve never seen!
Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of these blunt-fingered men with cheap cigars, who cashed their weekly checks in bars and washed their hands with Lava soap who lost their jobs and gave up a hope… they will have a chance to be able to provide for their families again and to trade in their drug habits for a beer at the Sip n Bite!
And it makes me want to f*cking cry happy tears for those guys!
Thank you, President Trump…really, thank you!
‘Then Trump 47 made the unthinkable happen…blue collar wages have spiked 1.7 in his first five months in office…the first time that’s happened since the early 60’s! And factories are moving back to America like I’ve never seen!’
A 1.7% average increase in blue collar wages is insignificant vs. cost of living increases, not a “spike”.
‘Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of these blunt-fingered men with cheap cigars, who cashed their weekly checks in bars and washed their hands with Lava soap who lost their jobs and gave up a hope… they will have a chance to be able to provide for their families again and to trade in their drug habits for a beer at the Sip n Bite!’
Unusually dramatic prose for an old blue collar machinist/welder. A persona?
“Unusually dramatic prose for an old blue collar machinist/welder. A persona?”
I’ve hung steel, started up hundreds of plant loading and shipping systems in fertilizer terminals, shoveled shit out of elevator pits and blown blood out of my nose after a day spent working in acid plants. What have you done?
Everything the ‘government’ involves itself in goes to shite!!
Medicine, manufacturing, farming, education, medicine, pharmacy, housing, infrastructure, space, sports, justice, religion, freedom, economy, even reproduction, did I mention medicine/medical……..gone to shite!
I generally agree. I’m no fan of the federal government but I am a fan of Trump trying to extract the feds out of our collective asses!
Ever try to use one of those EPA-approved gas cans? Better to repurpose an old milk carton!
Well, there are enough chinese illegal alien invaders to staff all their American business.
Ya got it! They’ll have the good ‘jobs’ probably not the labor part!