The long-running U.S. effort to bring manufacturing back home, which Jiang argues has failed because the cost structure is unsustainable.
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onshoring
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "and opening and also opening its vast consumer market to Chinese consumer goods and therefore giving Chinese millions and millions of employment opportunities. So..."
Key Notes
He argues that a decade of American talk about onshoring has not worked because the U.S. economy cannot absorb the cost, leaving China effectively irreplaceable as a cheap manufacturing base.
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"and opening and also opening its vast consumer market to Chinese consumer goods and therefore giving Chinese millions and millions of employment opportunities. So..."
"these like these billion dollar projects that have been emphasized, highlighted, have not turned out really well. So China is basically irreplaceable in terms..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Jiang's argument begins with a simple civilizational scorecard: energy, openness, and cohesion.
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