>All of these bikes are designed and made in China. Jeez, and why is that? Here's a wild idea, instead of offshoring out entire manufacturing sector to sweatsh

>All of these bikes are designed and made in China. Jeez, and why is that? Here's a wild idea, instead of offshoring out entire manufacturing sector to sweatshop countries without human rights and environmental regulations, just to drive down cost and increase shareholder value, we instead invest in domestic manufacturing for critical sectors such as transportation (yes bikes are a means of transportation and the best one for cities at that). Or, instead of the government aiding Exxon or BP they aid local E-Bike manufacturing. Several European countries have E-Bike companies with domestic manufacturing. So it's possible to do in the west.