This was true in the 90s if you were lucky enough to immigrate to China and work there for a bit. You would have seen it unfolding and the West would have been none the wiser, as they were fed with an outdated, short lived period of China which painted it in a slow moving, old fashioned light.
This didn’t happen yesterday and it’s not because of Trump. This started decades ago and unfortunately people who raised concerns were laughed out of the room.
Yes people were complaining in the late 1990s about large plants being bought by the Chinese and then the Clinton administration allowing 20k visas for the Chinese workers to take the plant apart and ship it to China.
Oh, it's worse than that. The companies who moved production overseas are the ones who taught them the advanced manufacturing technologies necessary to make the now offshorn products (looking at you, Apple).
While being able to walk into a Walmart and buy a microwave for $20 is good for 'society' its not so good if you want to onshore microwave production and have to compete against these 'Everyday Low Prices' coming in from overseas.
This didn’t happen yesterday and it’s not because of Trump. This started decades ago and unfortunately people who raised concerns were laughed out of the room.