> The reason they are ahead in the first place is labor cost & the QOL workers will tolerate

That hasn't been accurate in a decade. Chinese labor costs have been higher than Mexico since before Covid. They have more efficient firms, business processes and so much more. The parenthesized "(and intentional government investment)" is related to how they developed nimbler systems, but ignores the totality of industrial policy.

Agreed completely. The recent bans are one way of doing this but not the most sustainable long term at all.

We have two options, give up and allow China to control all production, or start the hard battle to improve manufacturing here.

I totally agree that we need to reinvigorate manufacturing in the US and that it’s going to take the government (federal level) to make this happen. But for some reason we’d rather give those tax dollars to billionaires and elect incompetents like the current president.