[comte7092]

Your argument lays out a number of push factors as to why firms left the US, but there are numerous locales that are and were cheaper than the US. This article is about what cause industry to flourish in East Asia specifically.

None of the bullet points you laid out are specific to East Asia.

[miningape]

I think that's kinda the point. It's not EA specific but general economic forces with a large difference in development.

[comte7092]

There’s nothing really general or abstract to what OP was stating though. Their argument is essentially “it has nothing to do with anything that East Asia did, it was essentially random that they ended up being the place where industrial development expanded to next” which doesn’t seem to be a strongly evidence based position in my view.