Well, now, that wasn't too hard, was it? Did you know that the primary design center for Sony TVs is in.....San Diego, California? Good for you! You are supporting a Japanese company with high-paying jobs in Sunny Southern California, and low cost manufacturing in China! I've been to the original Sony TV plant in Osaka, and it looks like any 1970's factory you might see in Detroit....past its prime. And if you think you've got a disdain for all things chinese, there is no more vicious racial hatred between two races than the chinese and the japs! Wow! Would David Duke-san fit in over there!
Aren't practically all TV'S made overseas now?
Well, I think you could make the case that ALL TVs are "manufactured" overseas. But did you also know that RCA, purchased by Thomson (a digusting bunch of Frenchmen!) actually still has a critical TV design center in....INDIANAPOLIS! Sharp has a plant in Spain. And guess what, korean, japanese, chinese and taiwanese almost exclusively use semiconductors that were assembled in malaysia or thailand, and designed in california. The only two serious players in the world for chip design EDA: Mentor and Cadence (they're American.) Most of the TTL chips that vaulted Texas Instruments in the 70's to be able to get where they are now: were made in malaysia, designed in Dallas, TX.
So you can say that no TVs are "made" in the USA, but the USA is such an integral part of every single TV component, it is really not possible to construct a TV without any high-value USA components.
It's not really like I had any choice was it.
Which again, FRiend, is exactly correct! The world cannot exist without the USA, and the USA can't have a cheep plastic TV without the rest of the world.
I, like you, was a little apprehensive about my own job, my friends' jobs and my kids' future jobs because of China. So I went to go see what the heck the fuss was about. I can't do anything to lessen your fears of China, and you couldn't have allayed my fears before I went, either. But having been there, and having seen specifically my business up close, I am more confident than ever that the dhimmicrats are far more dangerous than Asia is. For one thing, the Koreans, Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese are totally fractured and at each other's throats....whereas the dhimmicrats are united to destroy the USA and American Industry** asap.
-I- am not your enemy. We both want to defend the fort....but mister....there is a fire to fight INSIDE the fort. People that want to tax and regulate the entire place into the ground and rewrite the Constitution. There are lots of DUers among us, and they don't like you, me, or China.
**Just wait until environmentalists find out what kind of horrifically toxic chemicals are used in the semiconductor industry.....they'll banish Intel and AMD over the border post haste.
but the USA is such an integral part of every single TV component, it is really not possible to construct a TV without any high-value USA components.
If there are 500 components in a TV Bill-of-Materials, and ONE component is unavailable....that TV (or PC, or phone or whatever) doesn't ship. Many components are fungible, but the high value ASIC stuff is most often not.
Taken to some future extreme, a war in the pacific means Americans won't be able to buy TVs, and it means China won't be able to eat.
Yeah I know a lot of Sony design and manufacturing is done in the USA, in fact this new TV I have is rumored to be assembled here in the states but I don't have a need to prove it. What you're trying to do is put China in with others like Japan that are actual allies of the US. China is no ally of the US, they have nuclear missles pointed at US, generals threatening to nuke California, and many ongoing spy operations at this very moment that are surprisingly being reported in the news. There is almost nothing in common between Japan and China, don't act like there is.