新冠疫情(造成的)物資短缺促使澳大利亞回遷製造業

新冠疫情(造成的)物資短缺促使澳大利亞回遷製造業

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Australia has been forced to rethink its industrial policy after an acute shortage of ventilators and protective equipment exposed what critics labelled its “dependence” on China. Canberra has promised to nurture local manufacturing to ensure it is less reliant on global supply chains.

澳大利亞被迫重新思考其產業政策，原因是呼吸機和防護設備的嚴重短缺暴露出批評者所謂澳大利亞“依賴”中國的問題。堪培拉方面已承諾扶持本國製造業，以確保減輕對全球供應鏈的依賴。

Australia is a nation that has built its economy on free trade and shipping raw materials to China. So the new policy represents a pivotal change for the conservative government.

澳大利亞是一個把經濟建立在自由貿易和向中國出口原材料基礎上的國家。因此，這一新政策代表澳大利亞保守派政府的一個重要轉變。

“This crisis has exposed deep vulnerabilities in global supply chains and how many western nations have allowed their manufacturing sectors to become hollowed out amid low cost competition, particularly from China.”

“這場危機暴露了全球供應鏈的深層脆弱性，以及有多少西方國家在低成本競爭、尤其是來自中國的競爭中，讓自己的製造業空心化了。”

“Nations are realising low-cost goods are not the only priority and China will not retain the dominant position in manufacturing it enjoyed prior to this crisis.”

“各國正認識到，低成本商品並非唯一優先事項，中國此後將難以維繫這次危機前其在製造業享有的主導地位。”