America Is a Global Manufacturing Powerhouse

By Michael R. Strain.

"Informed Americans can be forgiven for thinking that the United States’ capacity to produce manufactured goods is in tatters, given how often that message is delivered. But it just ain’t so.

The United States is a global manufacturing powerhouse. Beyond domestic manufacturing, we have strong international alliances with other manufacturing powerhouses. Concern that the United States would be unable to equip our military with manufactured goods is confusing in the face of these obvious facts."

The country with the big spike up in brown is China. USA is next, the gray section