The wages that need to be paid to an American worker to assemble phones all day would be really really high. They’d rather just work at McDonald’s or play video games.
Those high wages would give them enormous leverage (unions etc) upsetting the entire American economic system.
The American system is a cyber punk reality where a country is just a container for the aspirations of a bunch of short term thinking warring AIs called corporations. The people being one of its inputs. Elections don’t change much. Anything that disrupts the AIs too much is taken care of one way or the other. Doesn’t matter if it’s Bernie or Trump.
So I would say that China is safe because the last thing america will do give up any notions that their system is the best or needs to change.
The west needs to realize that the momentum of a head start on industrialization and ill gotten gains from historical loot is running out. As everyone joins the industrial game the world inherently becomes multi polar. There’s no reason why only the west can have high living standards or that only the western system can sustain it.
in a situation of having to manage Russia, China and Iran at once while greatly weakened , Multi lateralism is inevitable. Democracy cannot be delivered at the barrel of a gun. That only creates more messes.
This week witnessed the amusing spectacle of Boris Johnson calling himself a Sinophile (give us a trade deal please). All this after running down the Chinese for months. The west can’t even decide what to do.