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The labor is technical, which at least in the U.S. usually carries higher wages. Chinese workers might be accustomed to low wages in technical jobs, but I don't see Joe Bob quitting his minimum wage burger-flipping job and go work at Foxconn assembling iPhones at minimum wage.

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If that is the case, then they will deploy robots, use few human supervisors to oversee the work. Don't expect it will bring their giant manufacturers pipeline here. It is not going to be profitable for them. Why, because Chinese people are cheaper, and for manufacturing, meaning assembling, your output is directly associated with your working time, where in China they can force workers to work 12 hours, here no chance they could do that.

It might not be cheaper if you think Trump is going to tariff China because of their support of North Korea.

Well lets see. If Trump is still willing to sell more agricultural products to China to narrow down the deficit, he needs to play this nicely.

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