alt Hacker News> China is not far away from deindustrializing and then we all suffer.
How? China is actively moving up the value chain, into EVs, batteries, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, etc. China is not abandoning industry.
> It's a political choice by our own politicians.
No, it's mostly how our economic system, how capitalism works. Production goes where production is cheap. You’ll never be able to produce goods in Germany at such low costs as in China or other third-world countries without eroding workers’ rights and thereby creating a new lower class.
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Or you know, you could demand that the goods being imported are made to the same quality, environmental, health & safety standards as your home country.
But that would turn off the spigot of cheap goods.....
Economic system choice is a political choice...