When I hear the rich like Trump and Romney whine about evil China I just have to laugh, they try and make the current situation China's fault, good grief; it is if history went on holiday.
Outsourcing became standard business practice in around 1989, now business managers will give you all sorts of wonderful explanations couched in jargon so thick that it would ruin your appetite: Strategic business plans, structured contact, world class capabilities, host company focus, freeing internal resources, and functional time management.
The Strategic business plan:
How do we make more profit?
Structured contact:
Which country gives us the best incentives to relocate.
World class capabilities.
How many really poor people do they have?
Host company focus
What workers rights can they ignore?
Freeing internal resources
How many people do we get to fire?
Functional time management
How many hours can we force the workers to work?
So on, and so forth, until you are ready to fill the little bag you picked up on the flight over to the management meeting.
You can boil all this garbage down to one simple phrase.
How can we maximize profits?
Woot; that much? Yay, to jargonize that; greed is good.
So when I see Romney clutching tons of plastic pearls about the evils of outsourcing to China, and that heaven forbid the Chinese with all the money they have made from this business strategy are refusing to lie down and take orders from the good old US of A. I have to laugh.
The raison d'etre for Outsourcing
Workers are paid a livable wage and tend to be unionized so are harder to push around.
Taxes are at a level where we actually invest in the infrastructure that supports our business.
This is untenable!
Where can we avoid this responsibility and loss of profit.
Oh hey, look, China.
Yep, those evil Chinese helped make our top 1% richer than ever before, goddam them all.
Trust them to deal with China?
Since they have been doing it so well for the last three decades?
You must be fucking joking?
The only reason that would stop outsourcing to China is if they find somewhere else where they can make more profit. If the US were to economically collapse; they would be on the first flight out.