The more important question is "Why don't we start boycotting the western
industries which outsource all their manufacturing to China, and proceed to
close their plants in the west"?
Much as I like the idea of people raising their living standards anywhere on
the planet, I think this wholesale move to locate most or all manufacturing
in China will come back and bite us in the butt, and soon.
Try buying American goods anywhere.   You'll find that the only stuff we
make now is extremely low tech items like push pins and staples, and all the
stuff that has to be operated with electricity is not made here any more.
I'm in the market for a microwave oven, but every one I've seen lately is
either from China, Korea or Malaysia.
(One even was labelled "Made in PRC", trying to hide the fact that it came
from the People's Republic of China.)

If you will recall, the Clinton administration made China a favored trading
partner and removed all restrictions on imports to America, apparently in
return for the large amount of money that China gave the party to help
finance his re-election.  However, I believe that China still has some
restrictions on what we can export to them.

Of course, you all know that the Buick Century is made in China.

About two years ago I spent a month traveling all over China and rode in a
very well built coach (bus).  Discovered that the coach was built in China,
in partnership with a well known Korean car company - partly owned by an
American company. Good luck!

We saw a lot of different cars that appeared to look like some of the
American brands, but with different names on them.  We couldn't find out
where or who made many of them, but suspect that they were Chinese "knock
offs".

One last comment.  While in Shanghai, we were told that Shanghai has built,
in the last 15 years, over 1400 skyscrapers over 40 stories high!  They can
build anything.

Wow. We are in trouble.  For the economist out there, you will recall that
the great Adam Smith defined in his classic "The Wealth of Nations", the
method by which National wealth is generated in a capitalist country.
Only one way to generate wealth.  "You take a raw material, with a given
value, and modify it so that it has a higher value.  the process is called
manufacturing."  All other processes (lawyers, doctors, politicians, clerks,
salesmen, etc.) do not create National wealth.  They simply move money
around.

A professor once told a friend of mine, while working on a Masters degree,
"the only way WE can raise the standard of living in another country is to
lower our standards.  Interesting?