I think the companies have the stomach for more and that it’s mainly a marketing and public relations issue.
https://fair.org/home/us-media-cant-think-how-to-fight-fires...
It's always been a problem, but it's best to make whatever strides to resolve it that we can.
> The US imprisons more than China does
Sure, but it is not currently engaged in a genocide. Standards for due process are also stronger in the US than in China, and you don't get thrown in jail for criticizing the government either.
The US prison system being bad does not make China's abuses any less serious. They are still much worse than what the US does.
And last year showed us just how much due process is ignored and political prisoners persecuted, if previous history wasn’t enough.
That's for people crossing in, and on average they're only in there for a couple days. The current population is around 10k people. It's a problem but it's absolutely nothing compared to putting entire groups into concentration camps. We did that once, but it sure wasn't any time recently.
> And last year showed us just how much due process is ignored and political prisoners persecuted, if previous history wasn’t enough.
It did?
The advantage of having semiconductor/electronics manufacturing in the US would be cheap land/labor, quantity of labor, gov incentives, regulation waivers, particularly in the American Southwest: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-southwest-is-americas-new-f...
> Political tensions with China are one factor.
Specifically - I think that, at the end of the day, the economic flow is the only thing that matters and all the other considerations are sort of moot. What the US offers to the world is a gigantic consumer market, and it's quite difficult to actually control a consumer market since any applications of force or restriction of goods flow ends up deteriorating the market faster than it yields control. If the US embargoed Chinese imports tomorrow the Chinese government would receive a lot of domestic pressure to take action but, logically, there isn't an action it can take overtly to actually reopen the US market - instead we'd see this war play out in propaganda within the US trying to force politicians to reverse the decision by causing mass discontent. And, honestly, it's likely that companies affected by any such embargo would just act independently of the Chinese government to those ends - so, essentially, the only real forces Chinese businesses would have to oppose an economic breakdown are their personally contained forces. I think, essentially, that the Chinese government would be impotent to deal with such a situation buuuut... that's just like my opinion man.
Eh, maybe - often that "something else" is capital sitting on its hands or investing in things that serve to protect its own interests.
I personally think the latter is preferable. Not sure why anyone buys US made equipment post Snowden/Assange.