[KantianBurke]

What are the odds that China will collapse and all of those manufacturing jobs might head back our way?

[HamiltonJay]

Short of tarriffs on Chinese goods, zip, zilch and zero.

[Illbay]

What are the odds the U.S. unions will agree to scale back their ridiculous pay demands?

[ContemptofCourt]

Have to agree....zero, zip, zilch....

China has a population of 1.3 Billion people...that is a heck of a manufacturing base, no matter how you cut it.

SARS has killed what, a few hundred people? It could kill a million Chinese and I don't think they would notice.

[Willie Green]

What are the odds that China will collapse and all of those manufacturing jobs might head back our way?

Nil. While highly publicized, the extent appears infinitesimal compared to the massive size of the slave labor pool.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

What are the odds that China will collapse and all of those manufacturing jobs might head back our way?

Not a chance. If businesses started to flee China for some reason (not SARS, IMO), they wouldn't come back to the US, where labor costs would kill them. Instead they would go to other south- and southeast-Asian countries where the labor is still cheap.

Actually, China may eventually end up being a victim of its own economic success. I read a prediction recently to the effect that with rising prosperity, in a few decades China will be complaining about losing its manufacturing base to neighboring countries.