In the New Cold War, Deindustrialization Means Disarmament

> They show the peril of ceding control of vast swaths of the world’s manufacturing to a regime that builds at home, and exports abroad, a model of governance that is fundamentally in conflict with American values and democracies everywhere.

This seems like a bold claim, and I didn’t feel the last part was really backed up.

I guess I just don’t see how that is the part of the model of governance that is in conflict with democracy.