>>510304969>low-value-added componentAnd they make a shitton of it and always have. They also make high end stuff in lower quantities like specialist steel, industrial furnaces, ect. Chinks don't make their own aircraft screws despite decades of trying, or so they say. And for all the claim that these are low end components back in the early 2000s the Chinks tried to switch to domestic plastic pellets but they couldn't be trusted to make them to spec or not add shit like lead as and emulsifier. Ask anybody who tries to buy Chink steel how that works out, we have dozens of copy pastas.
What does China do in comparison, mostly cheap shit but they have a few specialties. For example red dot scopes there are decent and cheap, I'm not sure if they are subsidized but I haven't found evidence of it. They can make medium and even high end quadcopters cheap. They are the only ones who still specialize in very large forged parts, since they aren't used anymore the volume is low but there are a very few shops there which produce things of acceptable quality.
You're acting like this is some kind of pride thing, it isn't. Ironically enough the most right wing white nationalists over here have no pride. They are mostly spergs as are most of the ordinary conservatives not just smart ones. This is an alien concept to much of the world but "face" is almost nonexistent in rural America because of the insular and taciturn nature of the whites. They don't care what others think, but get pissed when people are technically incorrect. They even view power materially rather than politically. It does blind them to the fact that nobody else are soulless mercenaries like themselves who have despised their own government and any government for centuries.
China is nearly the opposite, everything is about face to the detriment of other considerations.