The west went to war with China because China didn’t want to pump their citizens full of opium and now the west is gearing for another war because the west doesn’t want cheap products and treats for their citizens (which was the entire purpose of outsourcing everything to China)
It has ever been thus. Remember when the UK forcibly deindustrialised India, causing a Dark Age in textile quality we still haven’t recovered from? (Try getting decent regency-era Chintz or Muslin, can’t be done.)
The west went to war with China because China didn’t want to pump their citizens full of opium and now the west is gearing for another war because the west doesn’t want cheap products and treats for their citizens (which was the entire purpose of outsourcing everything to China)
It has ever been thus. Remember when the UK forcibly deindustrialised India, causing a Dark Age in textile quality we still haven’t recovered from? (Try getting decent regency-era Chintz or Muslin, can’t be done.)