re: If we decoupled from China ... what countries ...

The problem with the US and its loss of manufacturing is only partially "cheap labor". We also have a corporate tax rate that this admin just took up again. It not only encourages outsourcing....but keeping all those profits offshore and reinvested offshore.

Then there is the whole organized labor fiasco. That port nonsense on the west coast is a prime example. Making well over 100 grand to do little to nothing and the new contract calls for no modernization, asinine.

Then this admin with things like the chips act where they are giving incentives to Taiwan and S Korean companies to build here, why not make it a joint venture....or they are on their own to protect their friggin countries. Anyone wonder why Nancy took that trip to Taiwan as soon as it passed the house....and took her son???????