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Going from supplicant to one abusive superpower to another sends the wrong message. Carney's Davos speech spelled it out for you.
Yes. We have virtually all the skills, expertise and knowhow with a few notable exceptions. (Submarines, we could build them but at great cost and a learning curve.) We could build nukes in a year if we wanted to. The delivery system would take longer than the payload, but we could do that too.
Chinese goods are cheap because market function and the profit motive was not of central concern, neither human rights, labour rights or environmental rights. Your claim of "cheap" is badly distorted. There were costs born by the Chinese peoples across each of these domains that don't show up on an invoice, but the bill always comes due and is paid in full. Your definition of "cheap" is a perversion of full cost accounting to suit a narrative.
So don't put yourself into a situation where either can force abusive terms on you, not that China's terms have been abusive, as evidenced by the development of countries who take chinese loans vs the eternal "developing" of countries which accept western "help". I'm not even advocating entering China's sphere, just having the threat available that the US can't push any terms with no fear of consequences.
Correct, building the means of production was. Now they've done that, one unit of labor goes a lot further when you're regularly setting up complex, automated assembly lines in days. If market function was the central concern, China would look like India or Africa; still exporting cheap resources and labor while your own people starve.
Maybe 25 years ago when they had children working in machine presses and rivers that turned funny colors, it's a different country now.