Ex-Air Force Tech Boss Eviscerates Pentagon For Already Losing The AI Race Against China

[ProfessorGAC]

14. When My Company Built In China...

...there were product lines we would not make there.
Where expired patents existed, or where the chemical process was obvious, there was comfort.
Even where the chemistry was common knowledge "tricks" learned that essentially disputed/refuted the conventional wisdom was enough to keep that platform out of China.
The Chinese government is not be trusted, no matter how much they welcome foreign investment.
BTW: those two sites service China & Southeast Asia. Not a single pound of product is exported off the Asian continent.
There are some companies that moved into China, but not to close stuff in North America and then ship it here.
I agree with you in principle about these shortsighted moves to China (strictly tactical thinking, not strategy, even if they call it that.). But, not all US companies go to China for that shallow reason.