Their inefficient practices have a long term goal. To undermine US manufacturing.
It might suck for them to have to subsidize exports, pay for spies in US research labs and manufacturing facilities, put up stiff tariffs on US products that the people might really want, spend millions on lobbyists to protect their racket in the halls of congress, put fake protien into animal feed, sell organs from prisoners, demand and bribe their way to get “offset” technology from companies who sell to them, spend money to buck up our enemies throughout the world, send their kids to the best US tech colleges, pirate software, run companies that counterfiet US brands, censor the internet, peg their currency to the dollar, and literally give away land for us to set up high tech manufacturing there, but its all worth it to them.
To create a paper tiger that cannot manufacture its own war machines - the US.
You can believe the chicoms are just a benign bunch of capitalists if you like. I don’t.
So long as America keeps to free market practices, trying to undermine its manufacturing is a fool’s errand-— as economists from Sowell to DiLorenzo have shown, predatory pricing doesn’t work.
The main reasons the United States has such a great war machine are 1) the heroes of our armed services 2) the fact that the United States is such a rich nation.
As Charles Pena puts it: “Whether it’s the president of the United States or a soldier on the front line, the ultimate criteria should be procuring the best, highest performing, technologically advanced and reliable equipment at the most reasonable cost. To do otherwise and simply buy American would be irresponsible and misguided patriotism.”