2013 marked the first year that there was no net outflow of manufacturing jobs.
The trend currently in the USA is re-shoring. Something like 50% of US companies in China are at various stages of re-shoring their operations to the USA.
The long communications and supply chains are too expensive.
that may exist in some companies but in SillyCon Valley there are thousands of firms making high tech gear and coding it, or both.
And some of the most prominent, largest companies are reportedly continuing their long-standing practices of importing foreign workers in large numbers.
And many (indeed, an article from just a couple years back reported that MOST) of the new startup firms in the high tech SillyCon Valley area are started by foreigners.
Gotta give credit to the Chinese engineers, Indian programmers, and similar foreign workers. They have built a very positive reputation for their peoples.
The long communications and supply chains are too expensive.
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Most CEO’s know how to climb the ladder and stab people in the back, but little more, or may have an Ivy League degree in addition to the above. They follow trends like everyone else.
Plus they are tired of the Chinese stealing their intellectual property and trade secrets, and producing competing knockoffs.