From the Article:
“... rising wages in China, the growing need for manufacturing speed and flexibility, and the quality of the American workforce are contributing to this ‘reshoring’ of U.S. jobs.
“... many of the jobs lost in manufacturing haven’t been lost to a rapacious China or bad trade deals, as Trump and Sanders insist, but are largely the result of technological advances here at home.
“Modern factories depend less on assembly-line workers and more on ‘workers who are adept at programming and overseeing high-tech equipment; able to handle multiple jobs … (and to) recommend plant improvements, large and small, on their own.’ People displaced by technology need retraining, he says, not attacks on China.”
The issues of automation and off shoring are not related at all. Mixing the two together is a gloBULList tactic of obfuscation.