US can’t overcome manufacturing gap with China

The US is unlikely to grow labor-intensive manufacturing to match China. However, I suspect that it could overcome the wage difference that makes it more-advantageous to manufacture many things in China.

Some kind of radical transformation in manufacturing that drastically reduces labor costs in manufacturing. Maybe advanced AI could wind up doing this.
Labor-intensive manufacturing shifting out of China for the same reasons that it once shifted into China --- because there are lower-wage countries out there. https://www.investopedia.com/manufacturing-already-moved-out-of-china-now-where-will-it-go-11711407
Many U.S. companies have refocused supply chains to Vietnam, Thailand and other countries in the region, partly because labor costs have risen in China over the decades.

None of those result in a bunch of US unskilled manufacturing jobs that pay wages competitive with many other jobs, which is why some people in the US want the US to do more manufacturing, but it could result in the share of manufacturing in China relative to the US declining.

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This should be obvious to anyone by this point.
The US is unlikely to grow labor-intensive manufacturing to match China. However, I suspect that it could overcome the wage difference that makes it more-advantageous to manufacture many things in China.
Some kind of radical transformation in manufacturing that drastically reduces labor costs in manufacturing. Maybe advanced AI could wind up doing this.
Labor-intensive manufacturing shifting out of China for the same reasons that it once shifted into China --- because there are lower-wage countries out there. https://www.investopedia.com/manufacturing-already-moved-out-of-china-now-where-will-it-go-11711407
Many U.S. companies have refocused supply chains to Vietnam, Thailand and other countries in the region, partly because labor costs have risen in China over the decades.
None of those result in a bunch of US unskilled manufacturing jobs that pay wages competitive with many other jobs, which is why some people in the US want the US to do more manufacturing, but it could result in the share of manufacturing in China relative to the US declining.