I don't have all the answers, but I think the US should have been protecting manufacturing capacity, broadly defined, all along. It would have been much better for the middle class, without a doubt. And it can easily be seen as a national security issue: look at the failures in manufacturing capacity during the CoV2 pandemic and that becomes obvious.
But it would be true for any major emergency: shipping products halfway around the world is obviously lunacy that would only be proposed by MBAs and their spreadsheet. The manufacturing country would come first in essential products, and long supply chains break down, as we saw with inflation, traffic jams in ports, and sending empty container ships back across the Pacific Ocean.
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