Makes me wonder if China isn’t pushing the whole thing. Get Mexico to just do the final manufacturing step so they can get around American tariffs on Chinese imports while still being the source for 98% of the parts.

I don’t actually know if that’s how any of that works. It’s just a thought.

I wish the graph went back another twenty years so we could see whether the timeframe matches your hypothesis.

I take offense to the teapot joke. Leave the teapots out of it.