I recall when there were still engineering magazines and the focus was what was going on in the US. Then, as China was able to dupe the useful idiot free trade

I recall when there were still engineering magazines and the focus was what was going on in the US. Then, as China was able to dupe the useful idiot free traders, and all the manufacturing went there, there was less and less need for electrical engineers in the US. Just before those magazines folded, it was more about trying to manage offshored manufacturing than doing any real engineering work. The more tenacious engineers were learning Mandarin to try to stretch their careers, but the writing was on the wall. China graduates 7 times more engineers than the US now, and most of the people who would be suitable for an EE degree are going into finance or web dev.