>Be sure to let Germany and Japan know that their high-value manufacturing is useless. China turns high value manufacturing into cheap manufacturing. That's wh

>Be sure to let Germany and Japan know that their high-value manufacturing is useless. China turns high value manufacturing into cheap manufacturing. That's why virtually every high tech component is manufactured in China. Japan is currently worried that China may snag the auto market from them once they start exporting their tech. >China is rapidly losing its textile crown as another example of your premise being incorrect. Textiles are the lowest skilled, cheapest manufacturing in the world. No country cares when that industry goes outside of its borders because the loss of the textile industry is a sign that the country has developed into a more advanced economy. Once/if countries like Bangladesh develop ahead of other countries, they'll dump textile manufacturing as well. As someone in the manufacturing industry, it's very easy to avoid American components or equipment. I don't even try to avoid it--there just isn't anything unless I'm actively looking for it and willing to pay extra for something that is, frankly, not any better quality. Meanwhile, it is absolutely, and I mean this with no exaggeration, impossible to avoid buying components from China. Whether it be PLCs, cables, plastics, anything--everything has China's hands in it to some extent. And from a cost perspective, it's incredibly cheap, so even trying to actively avoid it, someone is using some component because they're still undercutting Vietnam and other countries. Vietnam is best at cheap assembly costs. When we go to factories there, they're still using significant amounts of Chinese components and equipment.