Fareed’s Take: Trump’s misguided push for a ‘manufacturing comeback’

This is why China will win! Trump's America is looking back 50 years while Xi's China is looking 50 years in the future and is investing all over the world to achieve his vision of Zhongguo (middle kingdom)

Silly. When manufacturing moves out a lot of other stuff moves out too. Investment, Infrastructure, skills, technology etc. China gained all that.
Moreover during covid china kept essential supplies for itself and refused to export it. If you can't make it during an emergency you are fkd

I hope Fareed isn’t deported by a paranoid MAGA under some bs excuse that violates the rule of law.

It's total BS. He knows we aren't going there on a large scale.

Service jobs will be the 1st to go with AI. Dependency on China for manufactured goods, especially high tech goods, is suicide. This is so naive, it’s ludicrous.

I am generally a great admirer of, and look forward to Fareed’s weekly, deeply informative, “Here’s my take” segment. That said, I found something at the heart of this generally fine installment infuriating: Fareed states, right at the outset: "At the heart of the Trump administration's policies is one overarching goal …" He then goes on to quote and flesh out a J.D. Vance statement about the administration’s intention to bring back America's manufacturing ‘glory days.’

While Fareed intelligently and effectively debunks that ideal as wholly, historically unrealistic, right at the outset he falls right into a rhetorical trap that I find maddening: He indirectly lends credence to the substance of Vance’s obvious demagoguery framing it as if it were a good faith, though misguided policy goal. For me, this is a great sin of omission in these critical times.

My problem here is in Fareed's attributing to this administration member any earnest goal other than the manifestly cynical and manipulative, all of which attribution is absent here. He could even have more accurately framed Vance’s statement as, "… one PURPORTED overarching goal. Instead, he performs classic "sane washing" of Vance’s utter cynicism, which cloaks in honest good faith Vance’s, Trump’s and their cohort’s stentorian statements of intention to bring back this or that former glory of ours.

By now, the manifest demagoguery at the heart of their soaring rhetoric is widely exposed as mere window dressing for their and their guiding hands’ intention to maximally empower and enrich themselves. Perhaps Fareed still seeks, as so many still do, to find earnest, if misguided honest intention to do what they purport to want to do on behalf of the American people? I, for one, find that a fool’s errand.

It is cheaper to move electrons than atoms

I worked in a shoe factory in 1985. The jobs were boring, repetitive, monotonous, hot and low pay. The workers were great, but they lived paycheck to paycheck. There were 5 factories in our area and they left one by one. So to bring those factories back, #1 no one wants jobs like that. #2, it would be highly automated and most jobs would be gone anyway. So Trump's vision is mostly a pipe dream. Even if people got jobs, the pay would increase the cost of the goods, so we would pay more than we do now anyway. Plus we all ready have more jobs than workers now.

In 2010, China temporarily suspended exports of rare earths to Japan after a clash in waters of the East China Sea claimed by both sides. The move shook Japan’s electronics sector and threatened to choke off global supplies of high-power magnets produced in Japan employing rare earths from China. Tokyo has since worked with mixed success to reduce its reliance on Chinese rare earth imports.

If he is that smart why can't he go back to India and and help Modi in building India into a super power….

We live in a post industrial society and for whatever reason people believe going back to an industrial society even though we are no longer a developing nation makes sense. Service is where the money is and it requires education and skill. The whole policy feels backwards. Deport manual laborers and bring in highly skilled service workers to give manual labor jobs to Americans ? lol. What ? How about train and educate Americans to access the highest paid jobs. Invest in Americans to have the best outcomes instead of all of this focus on who is picking apples. I swear people are so confused as to what they are asking for which is begging for less.

Fareed is talking about things that educated people who are in high paying jobs understand. I am one of those as a senior engineer of 23+ years. Problem is, Republicans are too ignorant to understand that manufacturing should be left to the countries that really have the cheap labor and the need for it while the high-end services, product design, architecture as well as systems integrations should be the focus of first world companies. Problem is, you need to be highly educated and competitive to be able to do it.

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The US cannot compete against China. China has cheaper labor, leads in manufacuring, and it pocesses an amazing technology market. The US will have to adjust its economy and face the new reality of the world’s economy. The world is now multipolar, and BRICS is a major economic force to contend with.

I was born in Japan in 1972 and grew up there. I experienced both positive and negative impacts that tariffs brought to the country. I recalled like yesterday about the free trade wars the US gov't waged against Japan. As a teenager hearing about what the adults were saying about tariffs, it made sense to me that the Japanese gov't wanted to protects the rice farmers, prioritized the Japanese companies, etc. What I didn't realized at that time was that tariffs increased the prices of everything in Japan back then.

On the top of what Fareed mentioned in his talk, I would also add two things that weaken Japan at the end:

1) Decrease in population: I think the average Japanese men don't like to get married to intelligent women. A half of my female friends in Japan are not married and I see the issues that men in Japan have in the general sense. There were certain images of what women should be.

Also, the Japanese immigration policies were very conservative back then, which created another problem, lack of diversity. A country must bring new people in in order to generate new energy in the society.

2) Lack of diversity: People in the US might think that diversity is mostly about races and genders, so they would assume that diversity should not be an issue in Japan at the first place since the country is a homogeneous country. But when I grew up there, the majority of people couldn't appreciate the benefit diversity could offer; creativity and uniqueness had no room to bloom its potential in the society.

It's unfortunate to see Trump's fundamental view of the world and his foreign policies. I think what he's trying to do is to create a new type of colonialism under the three powerful nations: the US, China and Russia; while EU nations, Canada, Japan, South Korea and other nations remain as sovereign states, Trump expects them to put the US interests above their domestic interests. This approach might make sense to some people in the US, but it wouldn't work because no sovereign states can survive without managing their own national interests. And getting along with the US is NOT the only national interest they have – things are more complex than that.

CNN is only trying to push a anti trump America native and they had it wrong for years, why should anyone still watch this media outlet