Bangladesh Sees Investment Boost as Japanese Firms Leave China

[Bilal9]

Toyota Corolla SUV
Can you believe Corolla will become a crossover?

Well Mini (not Micro) SUVs are the trend now of course. Smaller than RAV4 and CR-V size, and then electric. There is a smaller Toyota SUV in the US (and other) markets which was based on the Corolla chassis, called the CH-R. Quite popular among the under 30 set. But for an electric platform, they need to change the look maybe.

Toyota is banking on the Corolla brand name - which gathers plenty of marketing homage and goodwill in almost every country for its size class. Brand recognition is everything these days.

Corolla will branch off into different classes looks like (including SUVs), maybe a sports type platform as well...

@SpaceMan18 @Bilal9 Do you speak English like this guys?

Just an example when Indonesian plays in US high schools competition, he will become much more developed than playing in Indonesia.

Yes sports training is very well organized in US and the rewards are, as we all know, astronomical...

 

[Michael Corleone]

Well Mini (not Micro) SUVs are the trend now of course. Smaller than RAV4 and CR-V size, and then electric. There is a smaller Toyota SUV in the US (and other) markets which was based on the Corolla chassis, called the CH-R. Quite popular among the under 30 set. But for an electric platform, they need to change the look maybe.

Toyota is banking on the Corolla brand name - which gathers plenty of marketing homage and goodwill in almost every country for its size class. Brand recognition is everything these days.

Corolla will branch off into different classes looks like (including SUVs), maybe a sports type platform as well...


Yes sports training is very well organized in US and the rewards are, as we all know, astronomical...

Yeah Corolla used to multiple different cars in the 90s. Looks like we’re going back to that.
Corolla SUV will be based on RAV 4 chassis

Bruh Korea and China are smarter than us plus they're probably more innovative than we are lol

In the 80s they were printing circuit boards, just like us today. So yeah you could say we’re 40 years behind

 

[Bilal9]

Yeah Corolla used to multiple different cars in the 90s. Looks like we’re going back to that.
Corolla SUV will be based on RAV 4 chassis

In the 80s they were printing circuit boards, just like us today. So yeah you could say we’re 40 years behind

What helped Korea was military danda and dictatorship by Park Chung Hee. He helped the Chaebols (Hyundai, LG, SsanKyong etc.) immensely. As a result they prospered and expanded overseas.

Hyundai did a lot of overseas construction too, entire ME and gulf area infra was built by Hyundai and other chaebols.

 

[bluesky]

Bangladesh Sees Investments Boost as Japanese Firms Leave China

Whatever BD guys say, I do not see any big sign of Japanese investment moving from China to BD. All sources talk about Vietnam and other countries of ASEAN, but not BD.

Japanese Ambassador is complaining about unclear investment and tax clauses that must be fixed before Japanese investors will move from China to BD. I hope the BD authorities grow big ears to listen to what he and others complain about.

 

[SpaceMan18]

What helped Korea was military danda and dictatorship by Park Chung Hee. He helped the Chaebols (Hyundai, LG, SsanKyong etc.) immensely. As a result they prospered and expanded overseas.

Hyundai did a lot of overseas construction too, entire ME and gulf area infra was built by Hyundai and other chaebols.

The issue is that our dictatorship is worser than theirs , and Hasina doesn't want to invest much into homegrown companies due to the fear of companies trying to overthrow her.

So Bangladesh needs to get extremely lucky for that to even happen

@SpaceMan18 @Bilal9 Do you speak English like this guys?

Just an example when Indonesian plays in US high schools competition, he will become much more developed than playing in Indonesia.

I agree lol wish that guy luck , and yeah I guess I do speak English with a New York accent lol

Whatever BD guys say, I do not see any big sign of Japanese investment moving from China to BD. All sources talk about Vietnam and other countries of ASEAN, but not BD.

Japanese Ambassador is complaining about unclear investment and tax clauses that must be fixed before Japanese investors will move from China to BD. I hope the BD authorities grow big ears to listen to what he and others complain about.

I mean BD government can fix it for sure , it's not that hard but the issue is when will they do it. And plus what Bangladesh has a large population with minor skills not a large population with advanced skills.

Taiwan was able to become developed cause they had better leadership which mean better education which resulted in big Japanese investments paying off

 

[Bilal9]

The issue is that our dictatorship is worser than theirs , and Hasina doesn't want to invest much into homegrown companies due to the fear of companies trying to overthrow her.

So Bangladesh needs to get extremely lucky for that to even happen


I agree lol wish that guy luck , and yeah I guess I do speak English with a New York accent lol


I mean BD government can fix it for sure , it's not that hard but the issue is when will they do it. And plus what Bangladesh has a large population with minor skills not a large population with advanced skills.

Taiwan was able to become developed cause they had better leadership which mean better education which resulted in big Japanese investments paying off

Taiwan was a Japanese industrial ally starting in the 1970's.

I had Taiwanese friends who were kicked out of the country by the KMT. They told me everything.

Taiwanese REALLY wanted to attract Japanese investments, and their Kuo Min Tang leadership (knowing their eventual rogue political predicament) were hell-bent in making money as soon as possible, in cahoots with the Japanese. They bent over backwards with free lease of land, unbelievable tariff concessions, you name it. Lot of Japanese companies were relocating production to Taiwan to reduce costs in the 80's.

OTOH their local Taiwanese products in the 1980's were shoes, apparel and toys and really poor quality hand-tools, lathes and industrial machinery (even worse than items twenty years later made in China). My company sourced some unfortunately and had to live with them. Mostly made to a price-point. Copies of Japanese industrial items.

Been to Taiwan many, many times in my younger days on business. even in the early 2000's Taiwan did not look or had advanced infra which was better than what we have today in Bangladesh. Dhan kheter pashey bhanga machinery factory.

Their rise was due to a handful of FABs and electronics assembly factories (invested by rich Hong Kong Chinese and rich locals), when the computer revolution started in the 1990's.

Dell, HP, IBM and all PC manufacturers depended exclusively on Taiwan manufacturing for all computer peripherals.

Almost every computer hardware conceivable was made in Taiwan in the 1990's and early 2000's. By late 1990's they had already passed beyond making shoes, apparel and toys, this manufacturing of course went to Mainland China by that time.

 

[SpaceMan18]

Taiwan was a Japanese industrial ally starting in the 1970's.

I had Taiwanese friends who were kicked out of the country by the KMT. They told me everything.

Taiwanese REALLY wanted to attract Japanese investments, and their Kuo Min Tang leadership (knowing their eventual rogue political predicament) were hell-bent in making money as soon as possible, in cahoots with the Japanese. They bent over backwards with free lease of land, unbelievable tariff concessions, you name it. Lot of Japanese companies were relocating production to Taiwan to reduce costs in the 80's.

OTOH their local Taiwanese products in the 1980's were shoes, apparel and toys and really poor quality hand-tools, lathes and industrial machinery (even worse than items twenty years later made in China). My company sourced some unfortunately and had to live with them. Mostly made to a price-point. Copies of Japanese industrial items.

Been to Taiwan many, many times in my younger days on business. even in the early 2000's Taiwan did not look or had advanced infra which was better than what we have today in Bangladesh. Dhan kheter pashey bhanga machinery factory.

Their rise was due to a handful of FABs and electronics assembly factories (invested by rich Hong Kong Chinese and rich locals), when the computer revolution started in the 1990's.

Dell, HP, IBM and all PC manufacturers depended exclusively on Taiwan manufacturing for all computer peripherals.

Almost every computer hardware conceivable was made in Taiwan in the 1990's and early 2000's. By late 1990's they had already passed beyond making shoes, apparel and toys, this manufacturing of course went to Mainland China by that time.

Hmm that's really interesting , I wonder if we can replicate this same strategy for Bangladesh but with Walton ?

Or I feel like Walton will do something like this