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You appear to be really worried about China, when the federal government in the US is eating the nation alive.
Musk's Tesla factories are so subsidized by the US that it raises questions whether those factories are actually doing favors for the US workforce. We'd lose jobs, but have a not small amount of gain for -- what did Musk call them -- entitlements. But you're right. Maybe we should nationalized Tesla, but keep it running, and offer a public option EV. We might even be able to make some better decisions, such as removing or fixing Autopilot so that fewer Teslas are responsible for deadly collisions. Heck, considering the successes of the US when it invested in big science and big engineering, we might be able to improve them so they're competitive with China's EVs on the global market, and require Ford, GM and Chrysler to offer something other than bloated ~~Non-Passenger Work Vehicles~~ SUVs. But that's all blue sky fantasy.
Trump has already handed the superpower baton over to China. Trump already took the knee to Xi Jinping the way he once did to Putin, and has already declared China a superpower, and a peer to the United States.
China doesn't deserve the superpower title yet, but Trump is also sabotaging the US' ability to force project, which is the key ingredient to staying a superpower, and China is dominating the renewable energy industries while Trump is subsidizing fossil fuels and even coal. So the US is clearly in decline while under the thumb of its aristocratic class. The US' political class may be more corrupt than China's already, and that deters businesses from wanting to invest in the US. They're investing big into China.
Yes, China teems with humanitarian problems, but then the US is building more concentration camps every day, so we're catching up if we haven't caught up already.
Right now, Musk has a phenomenal amount of power, enough to purchase the entire US federal government if he liked, or at least hire another 100,000 lobbyists (including retired elected officials) and continue to assert massive control of the US government. Frankly, that is a greater danger to the US right now then liquidating a few factories.