[bubo_bubo]

OK, so let's say that a Chinese company moves its stuff to the US.

As a former toolmaker, (you can guess why) I have to say "why would they do that?" They would have to invest in training for people to be toolmakers, millwrights, etc. - the trades closely related to engineering (toolmakers do both design and machining, for example) that have gone stale in this country because there are no jobs and no apprenticeships for people to learn them. These are the skills needed to make tools for the assembly lines. And we don't have them any more. You need someone on the shop floor to debug the tooling and that person is still in China.

All the skill is now in China. It's not coming back. So neither is the manufacturing.

If you have a A.T. Cross pen, please chuck it in the ocean.

Yes, I'm pessimistic and angry. Because I saw an entire industry get gutted just so a few at the top can have more.