Eventually American public opinion will turn strongly against companies which eliminate US jobs.
(and Republicans, if they don’t get as far away from them as possible) The time to start making plans is now - not once US public opinion start going south on the ‘free traders’ in a big way.
Around that time, China will begin to become more aggressive with those same companies, to attempt to leverage them against our own country, to influence trade policy.
The end will be a sudden collapse of any “American” companies which have not before then, found ways to wind down their operations there - suddenly those will no longer be their operations at all - they will belong to the Chinese government. They will be expropriated and collapse catastrophically as independent companies.
It would behoove “American” companies to start bringing back jobs now, before that happens.
I am not optimistic seeing the blind greed which drives most globalists, that they’re nearly sensible (or patriotic) enough to do that. No tears will be shed by this poster when they collapse.
They made their bed. They continue to sleep in it.
Screw ‘em.
You miss the point.
They CAN’T manufacture here, because our federal polypragmonocracy makes such high-end manufacturing infeasible.
Sure, it behooves companies to do the work here - IF it wasn’t somewhere between illegal and cost-prohibitive due to regulations.
That's why American (and Japanese, and Korean, and British, etc.) companies contract work out. If the Chinese government decides to nationalize Apple's operations there, they'll get a few offices and several retail stores. If they nationalize Foxconn, there will be severe shortages while Apple tries to line up another contractor elsewhere; China, meanwhile, will simply be killing the golden-egg-laying goose.