My analogy has to do with a technological and manufacturing advantage we have surrendered to our largest communist enemy.
Doesn’t it concern you a at least a little?
Unless I’m missing something, Apple products are still engineered in American, only built in China. The sad reality is that we couldn’t run an Apple plant here in the US if we wanted to. The regulatory/union environment wouldn’t allow it.
I agree with you 100% in being concerned - I just think we see the cause for concern in entirely different terms.
Manufacturing (workforce) is a 20th century path to economic power - resources and energy are the issue and path of the current era. Food, water, oil, mined materials, etc.
Ever notice how we’re always caught unaware by how the PRC has ‘unexpectedly’ developed something or another thing, faster than our intelligence had thought?
Our intelligence is done by people with an interest in selling us down the river with ‘free trade’.
We are being betrayed, by those whose job it is, to protect us.