> manufacture 90% of the goods in china > send to another 3rd world shithole to assemble the final 10% how the fuck can you regulate this? you can't.  also, that guy you responded to is right. most of the shit we import from china are low-skilled shit that's at or near bottom of the value chain. any country can manufacture this because the iq and skill threshold to manufacture those types of items are very low. you're mostly going to damage american consumers with tariffs on these types of items because the cost of manufacture them in other countries and ship overseas/air is much lower even with a 25-50% tariff than it is to manufacture them in america. what the us needs to focus on is high-skilled, high iq manufacturing like semiconductors, evs, batteries, displays, airplanes, etc that most country can't manufacture due to a lack of high skill workers. that guy is also correct that biden did a good job focusing on a high-value sanctions rather than low iq across-the-board tariffs that the orange retard is trying to do. biden threatened to strip american citizenship to any american working for chinese chip companies. this one act alone crippled the chinese chip industry, since china's industries rely mainly on intellectual theft through hiring skilled foreigners to spill trade secrets. if biden wasn't so far up his ass on dei and trans bullshit, he would be one of the greatest presidents in american history. trump's greatest weakness aside from his tiny brain is that he thinks the average flyover american should make a living ($80k salary and above) by manufacturing pencils or whatever when it's not economically feasible. obama might've sounded like a condescending prick when he said those jobs aren't coming back, but he was telling the truth. for those types of people, the best option forward is to support american high-tech industry combined with a generous welfare state. but that sounds too much like socialism, so that's not politically feasible.
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