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We recently purchased a giant DC motor fan for the gym. The size of the blades resembles a small plane.
The box came with the lion saying made in India.
On unpacking the fan, we discovered the blades and motor are made in China. It was clearly etched on it.
The only thing that was left was a blue plastic housing and a flimsy grill to keep you from touching the blade.
Every single machine, laser cutter, press brake, grinding machine and welding machine we use: made in China.
Even welding machines, hand grinders and hand tools that Japanese brands like Makita and Toshiba sell are made in China. The American brands like Stanley, Black and Decker and Dewalt are made in China.
My welders buy welding machines they know are made in China. And some Indian company puts a flimsy sticker on it and calls it Indian Welding Inverter (Made in India). When the bottom reads made in China. It sometimes hides in plain sight.
I don’t think our economy can move an inch if we angled to be wholly self sufficient using only local workers and tools made within our borders. We have neither the industrial might nor the know-how to manage without help.
I know for a fact that I depend on Chinese tools every single day to do what I do. I would bet that even if you walked into Apple’s assembly unit in India, there would be rows of machines that required either competence or passed through literal or metaphorical Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese, Israeli, German, Spanish, French or Korean hands.
Industrial competence, according to experts and history, is built over decades and centuries. It is not simply a branding or marketing game played over a few years.