We don’t rely on slave labor like the ChiComs, nor do we need to.
Instead we use ingenuity and innovation to match anything the ChiComs can slap together.
However, like the ChiComs, we have massive class of useless mandarins from the government who impose a centrally planned economic model on our entrepreneurs, with the covert goal of heavily tilting the playing field for multinationals ...
We don’t rely on slave labor like the ChiComs, nor do we need to.
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neither do the Chinese - the factory workers are relatively well paid. Things are less expensive than in the US so their money goes further. They also have no real alternative: live in REAL poverty in the countryside or work in the city as a second class citizen - city born and country born have different rules, but be able to make enough money to go home and marry.
They are not slaves; they are just paid less per their economy. Just like workers here have fewer perks (are ‘paid’ less) than EU workers who work 30 hr wk, paid month long vacations, free healthcare, etc by law.
We need mega factories to be competitive in price and volume with the Chinese, Indians and Vietnamese. Their factories are frequently state of the art. Those factories are smaller versions of what Foxconn was going to build in Wisconsin, until they learned we do no have sufficient infrastructure or skilled labor pool to make even a small version feasible or profitable. So Foxconn is just building a scaled down plant that will not be making the high tech large screen panels they had originally envisioned.
To make those giant factories work here we need another 500,000,000 people.