Too much air in your head
Author: zee
Date: 09-24-2020 - 11:22
Business relocations are independent decisions. You can't assume that every move from China will go to Mexico and central America, some will go to the US.
But even if all went to south of the border, it is still a win. We still get suppliers that are no longer in a hostile country big enough to throw their weight around and possibly blackmail us by cutting off critical supplies. Mexico and south are too dependent on trade with us to try that for long.
They aren't building a massive military and wargaming against us. Relocated suppliers would no longer be fueling China's expansionism and concentration camps with their tax dollars. Or at least not from the portion that they relocate.
More jobs in Mexico and central America means less illegal immigration that taxpayers have to subsidize via social services. Less unpaid emergency room overuse that shift costs onto Americans.
Smaller but real types of quantifiable benefits such as savings from being in similar time zones, shorter travel for executives, trainers, workers visiting headquarters, and such.
Try to engage your brain. That's better than inane Orange Man Bad tribalism.