chinese not only make cheap products, in fact its high quality for the price youre paying. American made products are overpriced junk that break very fast.
Americans can try to diversify its trade to places like south east asia and south asia but the quality will go down. There are tons of countries who are now poorer but they lack qualitive labor. Not only that buts its also the fact that all these countries dont even have the technology anymore to produce their own stuff. Iphone is full of parts from korea, japan and china. And foxconn is the one who decides where its gonna manufacturer not apple.
There are 4 factors why people buy a particular kind of item in the market
1.) Brand
2.) Quality
3.) Availability
4.) Price
For the first kind of people, they don't really care where the item is coming from, they buy them because of its brand, take Ikea for example, people but Ikea furniture because they are from Ikea, Ikea may make them in China, Finland or in Sweden, but that was not the consideration
2.) people have the money to buy quality item will not care about price, as long as they are the best in their own category, for example, if a person is going to get a car, and all he wants is speed, they won't care about the price, if I am going to buy a Ferrari, I will not wait until they are on sale to get one.
3.) Some time people buy something just because they are
Close and available, that would explain the buying pattern of an automatic vending machine, while they sell the same item almost twice the price of an supermarket, but people still buy from venting machine because they are there when the people need it.
4.) if a person is buying an item simply because they are cheap, the. They will not care about the quality of that item as you would have normally expected. If a person want and can afford a higher quality item, then the price factor would almost always ignored.
China being unstoppable because of their dirt cheap price, where it suited well the rear echelon of the customer, when you go to a discount store, you would generally not care about how long you can use that item, but rather how much it cost. In some degree, being cheap (Not cheapest) but of higher quality would actually work against you. As either people who go for quality would not care about the price, and people who care about the price would not put quality in any priority, then you would only seek customer in between but not two extreme