Following the buyout in 1995, the production line at Anderson was "duplicated in China" at a facility built by the PRC company. According to South, after the company "made sure that it worked, they shut down" the Anderson facility.
No doubt that they already had the technology prior to starting the Chinese plant in '95, because you have no idea what plants you need until you have the design. But I see no reason we should allow them to buy our plants--probably pretty darn cheap.
It looks to me like our defense industry should be building as fast and as hard as it can. I don't know what weapons we have in the pipeline, but it's time to accelerate the program and ramp up production.