China rose to prominence making shitty consumer goods for pennies on the dollar. I don't see any reason that any number of third world shithole countries couldn't replace them by doing the same thing.

We could both reduce our dependence on China and strengthen our ties to their neighbors by encouraging/providing technical assistance/subsidizing the development of manufacturing industry in places like Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc.

Hell, it may be as simple as tariffing the shit out of goods from China and providing tax breaks for importing goods from those other countries. If you disincentivize companies from doing business with China and incentivize them to produce their goods elsewhere, they will do it.

China rose to prominence making shitty consumer goods for pennies on the dollar. I don't see any reason that any number of third world shithole countries couldn't replace them by doing the same thing.

We could both reduce our dependence on China and strengthen our ties to their neighbors by encouraging/providing technical assistance/subsidizing the development of manufacturing industry in places like Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, etc.

Hell, it may be as simple as terrifying the shit out of goods from China and providing tax breaks for importing goods from those other countries. If you disincentivize companies from doing business with China and incentivize them to produce their goods elsewhere, they will do it.