“China was deindustrializing the USA, sending us back to the animal powered age or the stone age.”
We manufacture about as much today as we ever have. We just don’t use nearly as much labor to do so. Take a tour of the nearest automobile factory. You may be surprised by how automated, and quiet, it is.
China makes most computers, steel,electronics , etc. in the world far more in these items than the U.S. . In the U.S. not hardly any TVS etc
http://www.ibtimes.com/china-manufacturing-10-things-chinese-make-more-anyone-else-world-infographic-1369727