Workers check rolls of sheet aluminium at a factory in Wuhan, China, on May 8. According to the Institute of International Finance, more countries are seeing price mark-ups due to long delivery times and the rising cost of inputs into production. Photo: AFP
Workers check rolls of sheet aluminium at a factory in Wuhan, China, on May 8. According to the Institute of International Finance, more countries are seeing price mark-ups due to long delivery times and the rising cost of inputs into production. Photo: AFP
Anthony Rowley
Opinion

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Macroscope by Anthony Rowley

How the politics of China-centred supply chains is weighing on global economic recovery

  • Prices are rising as stimulus-fuelled consumer demand runs up against supply chain constraints
  • While inflation sceptics expect the problem to go away as supply systems reopen, there are signs that all is not well on the global factory floor

Anthony Rowley
Anthony Rowley

Updated: 1:30am, 21 Jun, 2021

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Workers check rolls of sheet aluminium at a factory in Wuhan, China, on May 8. According to the Institute of International Finance, more countries are seeing price mark-ups due to long delivery times and the rising cost of inputs into production. Photo: AFP
Workers check rolls of sheet aluminium at a factory in Wuhan, China, on May 8. According to the Institute of International Finance, more countries are seeing price mark-ups due to long delivery times and the rising cost of inputs into production. Photo: AFP
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