> You scare investors. You don't realize how unlike manufacturing, services are extremely easy to move to another country. And why even start manufacturing in this regime, when plenty of saner countries are nearby?

You have it backwards. This is the stuff that manufacturers, and particularly capitalist American manufacturers go absolutely nuts for. Authoritarian governments are their wet dream. If you have an authoritarian govt on your side, there's nothing you can't get away with. Labour troubles disappear, red tape? gone! Environmental issues? swept under the carpet.

It doesn't get much more Authoritarian than China, and world manufacturing moved all moved there over the past 50 years.