There is a widespread issue for power generation capacity in China due to peaking thermal and coking coal prices and generators in China would make a loss ie input costs high and not able to pass on the costs. Industrial consumers will need to be allowed to pay more. Big consumers like aluminium smelting are being paused as China's increasing need for residential heating especially in the north east provinces coming into winter. The CCP will do anything to avoid widespread consumer unrest but are a hostage to raw commodity prices.
https://www.smh.com.au/business/com...d-a-global-energy-crunch-20210929-p58vox.html
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09...-record-mining-steel-resources-jobs/100486198
Australia-China relations are at an all-time low but we are still a major exporter to them for raw materials. Petty import tariffs in some imports eg wine/lobsters haven't helped reduce the overall balance of trade in dollar terms. Iron ore prices have dropped a lot recently with China reducing demand but coal still represents ~60% of China's power generation. This will impact their GDP growth overall.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01...ell-after-chinese-trade-restrictions/13090436
Breaking news that explains everything!
[CR0 Rumor]
The Chinese people will be okay, their government has promised every household a Canon R5 camera, with instructions to run it continuously in 8K video mode to heat their houses. They will also supply a solar charger for the LP-E6NH batteries, to take the demand off the power grid and make these heating systems totally sustainable!
The real reason that Canon is experiencing a shortage of parts, and is delaying pre-orders, is because they're using everything they have to make this record number of R5 cameras for the Chinese population! This will immediately make Canon the most popular brand in the world, and in exchange, every recipient of a camera will be required to take a single stock photo of a particular subject as instructed, which they will email, back to Canon.
Canon will put these images on the Chinese 500px website to build the largest repository of stock photos ever, and completely monopolize that industry. This will compensate for the decrease in profits due to the decline in the global camera market, and increase Canon's annual earnings back to previous levels and higher.
With new record profits, Canon will finally be able to act on the wish lists they've compiled from all the photography forums over the years, and build THAT camera. Yes, you know the one, the 200MP global shutter, quad-pixel auto-focus camera with 22EV dynamic range, 120FPS electronic shutter burst mode with no rolling shutter, no noise at ISO 256,000, with four memory cards, an EVF with no lag that looks just like an OVF but with all the extra info, and auto-composition AI so the camera does absolutely everything. This new camera will also utilize a scaled-down NASA satellite radioisotope power system with a battery life of at least 17 years, for continuous shooting requirements and long time lapse videos. It will also come with a USB 4 port for connecting a USB power bank in case of emergencies, such as a breach of the casing around the plutonium-238 dioxide fuel core.
Having revolutionized the camera industry, there will be so much money that Canon will buy the Sony camera division, and retail their products as Canon's new budget line, even it it's at a considerable loss. This would be purely out of principle, to troll the Sony fanboys who published all the nasty comment about them on forums over the last decade or so. After that, the camera world will return back to peaceful, harmonious state once again.
Now, that's such a visionary corporate strategy, that I could not possibly just make it up, so it must be true! So, please be patient with your pre-orders, the people in China need to stay warm over winter first, and to make it up to you, Canon will finally build THE ultimate camera, and end forum debates forever!