Once wages undercut China, they can sell stuff to the Chinese.

What gets me is that these morons think domestically manufactured products will somehow be cheaper that their imported counterparts. The entire reason we've come to rely on imports is because they're cheaper than the domestic variant, almost entirely because American corporations are notoriously greedy shitbags. It's ridiculous to think that since imports are going to cost significantly more that American corps are going to suddenly find a conscience and charge anything remotely resembling a reasonable price for their goods/services. Even with possible breakthroughs in automation and "AI" (lol), the owner class is guaranteed to use that to enrich themselves at the cost of the rest of us.