Oh my... Forbes speaks truth to power? For the last 30 years America as exported jobs, money, and the infrastructure to manufacture because of POLICIES designed to do just that. The global plantation can only happen if America is downsized. Trade war? No. But we CAN protect the industries that provide the very capabilities that we MUST have to defend ourselves financially AND militarily. Google cannot build bombs.
Environmental policies make doing business here more expensive if you manufacture anything.
Moving target environmental standards policies are killing the coal fired electrical generation industry, and with it, coal mining as well.
Anti-fraccing policies will guarantee the current surplus of oil and gas will not last, not for motor fuels and not for power generation.
Metals mining and smelting have also suffered.
Why not use others' resources and manufacturing when it has been rendered cheaper by regulations here?