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There is an aspect of wanting to dump manufacturing to labour violating/lax labour countries without transfering some knowledge that I don't like about this kind of "decoupling". Laundering it as a solely national security issue/CCP/slave labour I feel lets cheapskate industrialists who hate paying livable wages off the hook. I mean these were the same industrialists that laid off their own country workers to setup industry in China in the first place. I feel like the national security angle is just a happy coincidence. For goodness sake it's Foxconn. There is no guarantee that the conditions of labour in their factories is going to change because they moved out of China.
I am predicting that news headlines 10-20 years from now will read similar to "Mexico decoupling" or wherever else dared to benefit off outsourcing.
The whole national security posturing is not entirely honest.