> as they industrialized and hollowed out US manufacturing Just to be clear about cause and effect - during the long period of globalization, the U.S. chose to

> as they industrialized and hollowed out US manufacturing Just to be clear about cause and effect - during the long period of globalization, the U.S. chose to off-shore manufacturing, trading high availability/low cost for domestic production. Off course, China has been an active participant in that process; but the U.S. could have chosen otherwise. Much of the rhetoric from the current administration's leader in the U.S. implies that the U.S. has been victimized unwittingly by the process, which of course is entirely unfounded.