I have read that between the time China joined the World Trade Organization and 2017 or so, the number of factories moved from the USA to China was at least 50,000. They were handed the technology on a silver platter. When it came time to produce artillery shells to compete with Russia, the USA was just not capable of keeping up.
Needs to go viral........”between the time China joined the World Trade Organization and 2017 or so, the number of factories moved from the USA to China was at least 50,000. They were handed the technology on a silver platter.”
USA manufacturing employment fraction peaked at 32 percent in the early 1950’s.
If it was still 30 percent (like china is) US manufacturing would be approx 45 million, not 13 million
https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-9/forty-years-of-falling-manufacturing-employment.htm