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Sunshine piefed.zip Sunshine@piefed.zip
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Sunshine piefed.zip Sunshine@piefed.zip
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  1. Taiwan having its own space agency.
  2. The Vatican making their own uniforms.
  3. Singapore has oil refineries.
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neidu3 sh.itjust.works neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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Malaysia has a domestically manufactured car brand: Proton

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zwerg feddit.org zwerg@feddit.org
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Nepal has a significant hydro-electric infrastructure. Its large enough that they sell electricity to India.

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JeeBaiChow lemmy.world JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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Malaysia has a domestically manufactured car brand: Proton

Its currently a rebadged Geely. Plus, its protected by import duties on foreign cars that double the sticker price after currency conversion. It exists to enable otherwise uncompetitive local suppliers, a small part of the supply chain for bolt on accessories and the like. Otherwise our automotive engineering expertise is effectively zero, even during the time when we owned lotus.

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neidu3 sh.itjust.works neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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Its currently a rebadged Geely. Plus, its protected by import duties on foreign cars that double the sticker price after currency conversion. It exists to enable otherwise uncompetitive local suppliers, a small part of the supply chain for bolt on accessories and the like. Otherwise our automotive engineering expertise is effectively zero, even during the time when we owned lotus.

True. Competitive or not, though, it still made Malaysia only the 11th country in the world that can (could?) manufacture a car from scratch.

I believe the powertrain is Japanese, though, but I don't think that's a deal breaker as many other car brands use outsourced power trains.

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Visstix lemmy.world Visstix@lemmy.world
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The Netherlands is the world's second-largest exporter of agricultural produce

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