It is not good to lose an entire industry's capability to a country that might not be our friend tomorrow.
"It is not good to lose an entire industry's capability to a country that might not be our friend tomorrow."
Amen to that!
Don't forget too that the more they export, the less poor the Chinese are going to be and someday they will get tired of doing all our work while we live at the top of the heap.
Sooner or later there aren't going to be any sources of low cost labor for us to depend on. I say we make it sooner so that we can learn how to go back to depending on ourselves in a controlled fashion rather than reacting to a crisis down the road.