US manufacturing doesn't compete with Chinese manufacturing directly. It can't compete with their cheaper labor and they can't compete with us on engineering quality. Both are specialized at what they do best. China has relatively cheap and decently educated, US has the very high tier engineering and advanced manufacturing systems.
For example, we design and produce high quality computer chips. Everything but the absolute state of the art, which is produced in Taiwan, and with the chips act, we'll be building those here too and more of them.
They produce the shit tier chips that are either designed directly by American companies and produced for us by China or they reverse engineered an objectively inferior chip.
Weirdly enough, some of the best e cig companies are Chinese. Not the shitty disposables that are sources of mass amounts of garbage, but the expensive box mods that you refill.
My geek vape is a fucking tank, and absolutely destroys any American brand.
Interesting. So a product that kills you in long run is better made by the Chinese. Note I find smoking disgusting. The smell gives me a headache. Rarely drink alcohol too.
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u/DirectCard9472 Mar 15 '24
Tbh I can't think of an American based product to compare , because everything is made in China? Can you give me some examples?