> helped to grow the whole Chinese electronics industry

Why do you want it? It wouldn't have grown in the US. The protests would have erupted before anything happened. There's huge amounts of contamination, pollution, deaths, low wages, over-work, etc...

Also US focused on designing the electronics and the ecosystem around it. Are you saying there's no industry around AMD, Broadcom, Qualcomm, etc that are fabless but hire vast amounts of people?

> as opposed to inflating some virtual numbers for the US

You have App Store / SaaS (i.e. developers) and a lot more.

Would you prefer an average developer salary vs below-minimum US wage factory assembler?