I doubt Reagan screwed around.
As far as China, I don’t really blame too much trying to get things cheaper. And the “slave labor or wages” argument is disingenuous. Those people are likely happy to get what they can from American business. We can’t compare it to here where we have (attificially high, ironically by socialist rules) wages.
To wit, get rid of the min. Wage and labor unions and a lot of the issues of outsourcing will go away, as will illegal aliens.
He was not perfect, as it is well known he went from Jane to Nancy (overlapped). But nothing like that other guy. Sheesh. You can’t even compare the two.