Yup—this is a classic case where China is not the problem.
Democrats and leftists are.
“China is not the problem.”
China was a pathetic Third World Communist country until they simply OUTSMARTED us, starting in the 1970s. They knew that the mighty dollar was the key, something the Soviets never figured out. So they created Free Trade Zones and the West rushed in, like flies to honey. By 1990 China had pulled 100 Million of their people out of poverty and essentially into First World conditions...thanks to the West - that was a HUGE SIGN that they meant business. And it only went up from there...still thanks to the West, to this day.
So you’re right, China didn’t force the West to turn over its Industrial Base, the West did it ALL on their own...China was never the problem, instead it was the unwillingness of Western leaders to address what China was doing.