Ask HN: What would it take to build a US version of the Shenzhen ecosystem?

You need some path that takes us on that course. War or cutting off trade with China would help force the issue. I suppose mass immigration of talent from China could help.

Some discussion of attempts to on-shore production is given here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19008032

It was kind of there in Detroit for a while. Raw materials came in cars came out. It used to be super vertically integrated.

cheap technically skilled labour, massive consumption power