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Always has been.
Nah. We only shifted from domestic manufacturing in the late 70s/early 80s. The last fifty years have been a rapid shift to Chinese production due to the low price resulting from the posted picture.
Just ask a Gen-Xer about the super safe American made die-cast steel toys they used to hit their siblings with.
https://rekennect.com/blogs/toys-made-in-usa/history-manufacturing/
And China's been eyeing up moving out of the manufacturing game, which will be a wrench in our plans.
...what. They're everyone's largest trading partner, why would they do that?
Well, it's kind of a choice kind of material conditions. China's become prosperous and educated. Their citizens are starting to demand imports and better jobs. It's not going to give up the manufacturing game for many decades but it's definitely ramping down whether it wants to or not. It's not really a problem for western consumption, there are plenty of struggling countries with cheap/free labor to exploit around the world.