Yes Absolutely, Yes!
They are still around--even as the skeletons they are so certainly they'd be vibrant without the all-out US government financed attack against them.
(And can you even imagine the modern factories they'd have with the billions of profits they'd have earned without the artificial competition the US government built against them?)
We(the US government) built the competition and continue to in this quest for globalization/world government/International Socialism or whatever you wish to call it.