What we are missing is that over the past 30 years, China has been successful in infiltrating our Universities, and filtering down to the primary ed system to infuse those sympathetic to Communism/Maoism to divide America from within. This is purely destructive.
At the same time they took advantage of us letting them into the WTO to hook American's on cheap goods, many times made with slave labor, and child labor at rates that no one can compete with in an open trade dynamic, ensuring that cost effectiveness in American manufacturing would be unattainable...This is an evil plan of theirs aimed at domination....
And the sad thing is, many on the left are just fine with it...
Labor costs have very little to do with China's success. They help a great deal but Labor is hardly even in the top 5 reasons China is successful.
The Number one, numero uno, #1 reason is our own incompetence and greed. Both our manufacturers and our Unions. Number two #2 is the insurmountable rules and regulations imposed on Companies by people who have nothing better to do than to get in the way. The biggest offender is the filthy, disgusting, despicable EPA, the home for every communist fuckwad in the Country.
When the Chinese want to build a factory, know what? They build a GODDAM Factory. Try that in this Country.
When I got out of the Army, many years ago, I was hired on at Republic Steel as a Security Guard. It was all they had. communists, aka; the dimocrap scum party, were in the process of murdering the steel industry. Over 300,000 (Three Hundred Thousand) Jobs were lost. So I was grateful for a job.
This not about me but part of my job was to walk through the Corporate Offices after closing time just to check on things. Routine.
So I walk into the Executive Vice President's Office and I hear something, I hear a man sobbing softly. I didn't know WTF was going on so I reach for my Service Weapon, a loaded .38 Special and ask him, "Sir, are you okay?" Startled the shit out of him. He sat bolt upright and said yeah, he was fine. I told him good, but I have to look around. He understood and while I was checking he started talking. When the Executive Vice President starts talking, you don't tell him to hush up. Not a good career move.
So he starts telling me about how he just got back from a meeting with the Steelworkers Union and it didn't go well. He told them, we have to modernize. The Japanese are kicking our asses, using electric furnaces, new this new that (I didn't understand so I nodded my head like a bobble-head doll and kept quiet)
Thye gist of it was, The Union told him that if he did modernize, they would strike and shut the Factory down. He said he promised no one would lose their job, there would be no reduction in workforce at all. No way. Willing to put it in writing, sign a contract. He said if we didn't do it, Republic would have to close up. The Union people didn't care...... You modernize, we close you down.
Republic Steel essentially, no longer exists. 50,000 (Fifty Thousand) Jobs. Gone. Never to return.
And you need to understand something people, Unions pull this shit all the time. Don't know why and, frankly, don't care. But they do.
So don't blame China. China is taking advantage of our own stupidity and greed. Mostly Stupidity. And scumbaggery. Greedy people don't kill the source of their income, scumbags do. dimocrap scumbags. All they know how to do is destroy. They bring nothing to the table, they create no wealth, they offer no ideas. All they know how to do is complain without EVER offering an alternative and too often they purposely try to tear down existing systems and apparatus that takes care of a lot of people without offering anything in return.
The Chinese don't play that shit.
Are they paying for it? Yes. Their Cities are filthy, their air is borderline unbreathable but now that they've cornered so many markets, they can start worrying about things like the environment.
China has 55 Nuclear Power Plants going. with 23 Under construction and 26 more planned.
We invented the fucking technoloy and currently have a total of 2 (TWO) Nuke Plants under construction.
TWO.