[ARCADIA]

Your own source contradicts your claim absolutely by revealing that China has LOST manufacturing jobs over the last decade.

Communist State Owned Enterprises employing prehistoric manufacturing techniques are certainly a thing of the past. But, it is disingenous to use that to mask the real shift in jobs away from the US. Care to comment on the rest of it?

[Southack]

"Communist State Owned Enterprises employing prehistoric manufacturing techniques are certainly a thing of the past. But, it is disingenous to use that to mask the real shift in jobs away from the US. Care to comment on the rest of it?"

What your own source said was that *every* industrialized economy in the world lost massive numbers of manufacturing jobs between 1995 and 2002.

So jobs didn't shift from the U.S,. to China. Jobs disappeared in the U.S., and jobs disappeared in China...per your source. 25 million jobs were lost in that time period in China. 2.5 million such manufacturing jobs were lost in the U.S. Europe lost such jobs, and Japan lost such jobs, too.

Your source says that decreased demand caused those manufacturing job losses.

My own opinion is that new technology replaced those jobs (e.g. painting and welding robots replacing painters and welders on assembly lines).

That's not "disingenuous." That's black and white facts and straightforward extrapolations.