I think there is an incredible amount of denial in America right now, on both the right and the left.
China has approximately 5 times America’s population.
It is now exporting as much as American, and growing.
Now is when we should start paying attention. We need to bring back American manufacturing, and stop sending our manufacturing to other countries.
Especially we need to stop sending American manufacturing, to China.
China has caught up with America now.
China is passing America now.
I know old habits are easy to stick with, but we must change. We need to bring back our own manufacturing, and we need to bring it back now.
Stop making things elsewhere.
Bring back US manufacturing.
Do you mean we should start making our own TVs and DVD players? You already pointed out that China has five times our population, and thus a greater pool of available cheap labor. We cannot hope to compete in that area; we cannot profitably reorganize our labor to produce cheap consumer goods. I don't know what the answer is, but I am convinced that that isn't it.