Wie die USA den Wettlauf um die Smartphone-Herstellung verloren: 1990 wurde die überwiegende Mehrheit der Mobiltelefone weltweit in den USA hergestellt. Heutzutage wird der Großteil der Smartphones weltweit in China hergestellt, wobei allein die Stadt Hongkong ein Vielfaches mehr Smartphones produziert als die gesamten USA.

I believe we did not „lose it“, we gave it away. The economy was geared more towards knowledge work and away from manufacturing.

It’s silly to frame this as “losing a race”. The US has multiple companies that are worth more than most countries’ GDP, without having to manufacture anything. Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft alone dwarf entire sectors of China’s economy.

You might as well claim that “France lost the agricultural race” because it now imports many food products from lower-income countries, or that “China is losing the clothes manufacturing race” because the textile industry is increasingly moving to Bangladesh and Vietnam.