You have a degree in economics and think we should be manufacturing EVs & solar panels domestically? It seems like you've internalized the things you've learned in your degree as "stories" and the way-the-wind-blows media coverage of our 'adversaries' as real.
Abso-fucking-lutely we should be producing those things domestically.
Being able to produce the core technology we need for the future is the only way to have a future.
The power and stability of the country is fundamentally based on its productive capacity. Do you think it's based on green pieces of paper or something?
The idea that this is not true is the greatest collective mass delusion of our lifetimes. Or just a good story told by those who benefit from the financialization of everything.
I have a degree in economics, no need for remedial training on comparative advantage and stories of secretaries and typewriters and so on.