>"American" manufacturers obviously have no problem sourcing parts (and labor) from China. Why should "American" consumers? I'm not saying this from the aspect

>"American" manufacturers obviously have no problem sourcing parts (and labor) from China. Why should "American" consumers? I'm not saying this from the aspect of "chinese cars are bad" or whatever. Like the Japanese ones did before, they too getting on par and better. So consumers would be fine with either. I said it from the perspective of losing national competence, infrastructure, and readily available trained people to work it (like it happened with other areas of manufacturing) and getting to play catchup later. American consumers sourcing parts or whole items from other countries will find they're also giving their manufacturing jobs to those countries (and creating a big working class/lower middle class issue), that those countries can then compete globally and replace their own brands, and so on. Later they can find that relying on outsourcing parts means they have not kept up with manufacturing infrastructure domestically, they don't have as many training operators available, and its a difficult race to get back on track when they decide to step it up again (like with the chips industry).