What "prized industries" are still there other than automakers? They're already boned, they just haven't accepted it.

China now leads the world on R&D and hard science, and is already making strides in chip design and chip making. How far off do you think a Chinese ASML is? Two decades at most? Or more like one?

And what would be the solution? I think we've all learned that protectionism doesn't work.

But none of its citizens nor territories for the moment.