It is not, generally speaking, more economically efficient to deindustrialize your own country

china is literally taking money that they could invest in domestic industry and investing it in industry overseas

i guess now you get to explain why they’re doing that if some form of economic efficiency isn’t the answer

The thing they wanted you to see were the statistics, not the guesswork and editorialization from that article.

“don’t look at that bit of the source i just chose to show you” would be an astounding bit of mental gymnastics