[apercu]

Fair, but there is tons of HIGH END manufacturing we could do that we just don't, even though there is every incentive to do so.

[deaddodo]

The US does 65% of China's manufacturing capacity at 25% their population.

They are doing fine.

[Thlom]

This can only be correct in spreadsheets. In the material reality China outproduces the US by orders of magnitude. For example, China produces ten times more steel, 3 times more cars and in shipbuilding China manufactures literarily thousands of times more ships than the US.