> The US already can't compete at all with China in electronic hardware and manufacturing.
This isn't because the US broke up their chip monopolies, though. This is because chip companies believed they could save money by shipping their expertise overseas and building things there instead. And they were right. They only had to put the US's economic future in jeopardy to do it.
I'm not talking about chip companies, I mean all electronic hardware: other components, PCBs, etc., are mostly all made in Asia, except for ridiculously expensive stuff made primarily for the military. There's no way that iPhones could be economically made in America, for instance.
This isn't because the US broke up their chip monopolies, though. This is because chip companies believed they could save money by shipping their expertise overseas and building things there instead. And they were right. They only had to put the US's economic future in jeopardy to do it.