The business elites are an utter mystery to me. I think we should be swapping over supply chains away from China to much more American manufacturing and trade with the UK and our fellow former colonies as well as Latin American countries and bright spots in Africa to aid in fending off Chinese encroachment. There are far too many things manufactured in China and marked way the heck up by various middlemen who have become our elite. We shouldn’t play that game as consumers. Deal with the Chinese in that case and starve out the greedy a-holes who are buying up the media and selling us all out. We need to be able to choose between where things are made and not simply where they are sold, because that is no choice at all. Yesterday I found an item on a Facebook ad priced at $90 and manufactured in China. I found the identical item from another source at $3. What I would like to find is the item itself manufactured in a non-communist country, other than buying vintage, that isn’t happening. Sorry to rant but I’m not really seeing too much movement. I’m trying to incrementally get going on my own small business now and Germany is becoming my new best friend. I have found affordable sourcing through some American manufacturers but this Covid thing is hitting everyone hard.
America has neither the manufacturing to produce so much of what China is streamlines to produce, nor the people willing to work as hard for less.
I think China knew that we would not have won 2 world wars without its massive manufacturing ability, and took it away in the name of free trade.