But what is it that Asians buy? Is it little gadgets and plastic trinkets like we buy from them? You know... the things they already produce? What is it that we can build efficiently and make profit off of that they want that they can't produce more cheaply for themselves?Oh... it's the stuff we already sell.. airplanes, [some] automobiles, and electronic machinery. That's it. The high-end industrial products are the only things we can build that would be profitable and create jobs, that currently China and other Asian countries don't have the capacity to produce or buy more cheaply elsewhere. But they don't have enough demand for those things to cause the US economy to become a major exporter again. We can't "re-industrialize" with textiles and low-end consumer products. We cannot compete in that area because unlike Chinese people, Americans don't want to work for a 1$/h.The US is locked in as a high-end exporter of goods and services and a massive importer of low-end items. Because of this we will always be consumers. People need to realize that. As the world globalizes, countries/regions will naturally become the monolithic producer of whatever industry they excel in. The US does not excel at manufacturing anymore we are culturally incapable of it... but we excel at providing services and producing tertiary and quaternary-level items like software and technology. So quit complaining that your job at the sheet metal factory got closed, go back to college, and make yourself useful in an office. That job is not coming back.