America underestimates the difficulty of bringing manufacturing back

Beyond the obvious skilled labor there’s supply chain network, maintenance, townships and supporting system around them.

And all of this needs human labor which is taken from somewhere else. How do you incentivize them? Just throwing money at the problem won’t solve it either. Because more often than not it’ll attract charlatans who will promise the sky, take the money and move away.

Where I live it is close to impossible to even get a Dog House approved and built.

The regulatory apparatus has to be rewired.

And then what happens when a new administration comes along 4-8 years down the line and decides to abandon some of those initiatives?

That has its own issues.

Not sure if it's still the case, but the Yangtze River used to be one of the most polluted water bodies on earth.