This is your most sensible post. All admins, past and present, all the big corporations, sent everything to China to make more money. Quality be damned. Local jobs be damned. They shot themselves in the foot for golden parachutes, then wonder why the middle class hates them.
Supposedly, we are going to make chips here, we should. Japan too. All the superficial race diversity efforts should be channeled into manufacturing diversity. I go out of my way to find parts made in reputable countries. You remember the PPE China sent over? Medical gowns that evaporated when you tried to put them on. Ridiculous.
Yes, China is an adversary. China uses centralized planning to not only make their people happy (so they don't overthrow the communist govt), but to also fund their massive military. China does not play fair, either. It's like playing basketball with no referees while one side tries to follow the rules, and the other team does whatever they want - traveling, out of bounds, charging, interference, etc. China does not play by the rules, and we've let them get away with it far too long. Trump, as crazy as he was, was actually correct on China. Notice that Biden never removed the tariffs on Chinese goods.
I mean, think about it. If you have an invention, today (like something on Shark Tank). Where do you get it produced in America? There are very few contract manufacturers, but there's a reason why that's the case. It's mostly not profitable enough when they have to compete with China. As such, US inventors end up taking their IP and just handing it over to Chinese vendors. The vendors get paid to produce the item, but they can also watch to see how successful it is. If your invention takes off, then they just copy it, as they already have all the production capacity and IP knowledge, and good luck suing a Chinese company as an American for IP theft. You'll likely get nowhere, and have extremely expensive litigation costs. This is reality now. IP theft alone, just China, alone, costs the American economy an estimated $600 Billion a year. That's a lot of American jobs, and American wealth, and IRS taxes that we are losing every year due to Chinese theft. And that doesn't even include jobs that were offshored that didn't need to be offshored (such as the loss of much of our textile business as well).
