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>i don't drink
Your words say otherwise.

Chinese manufacturing shifting outside of China in search for cheaper sources of labor was happening before Trump's first term in 2016, but it accelerated, especially into SEA, during Trump's first trade war with China. Chinese business wanted diversify their sourcing, as did their business partners that bought their manufactured goods, as the political winds shifted under Trump in the largest consumer market in the world.

The Chinese Communist Party, which is not the same as the Chinese government, doesn't want to make money. They want political power. If they wanted to make money, they would want their people and business to be able to be independent and free. Instead, the top-down driven economic decisions of the Chinese economy, powered by the state-owned banks, the state-own or state-dominated industries, the state-owned land, and the world's largest and greatest surveillance state, direct its people, resources, and talent towards empowering the one-party state-ruled Chinese state's geopolitical ambitions by trying to make the world reliant on Chinese manufactured good, making the profit motive subservient to defeating foreign business competition and dominating critical supply chains, so that it hold all the leverage in any diplomatic negotiation.