>>We need to stop blaming the Communist Chinese and examine our own inability to outcompete the Communist Chinese on our own turf.
How do you propose ‘competing’ against a country that doesn’t have/enforce any rules against slave labor and very few if any environmental regulations - sure, some of our epa rules are overkill, but I bet very, very few westerners would be willing to live with the pollution levels and utter destruction of the environment that is allowed in communist china, which allows them to produce things cheaply.
Unless americans are willing to pay 2-3X as much for identical products produce in this country (and generally they are not) - I am not sure there is going to be much ‘competition’.
China has made major inroads into flower pot making.
Flower pots are simple products that lend themselves to automated manufacture.
The American consumer’s loud and clear answer has been not just “No” but “Hell, no!”
There isn’t going to be any domestic competition, anyway, except maybe in semiconductors. Companies are realizing the “loss” of Taiwan is a foregone conclusion and rushing to set up alternatives.