Where Did Our Factories Go? | E7: Red Supply - How the CCP Seized Our Means of Production

In Episode 7 of The Subversion Files, we trace the shift of America’s manufacturing from domestic dominance to foreign dependence, with a focus on how policy decisions in the 1990s accelerated the trend. Drawing from historical trade agreements, official records, and congressional testimony, we examine how these shifts opened the door to vulnerabilities—including foreign technology embedded in U.S. infrastructure. This episode explores the broader question: what happens when a nation no longer controls its own means of production?

⚠️ This is Part 1 in our 3-part series on this topic.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
01:21 – Ch. 1: The Marxist Playbook — Take the Means of Production
04:14 – Ch. 2: Sold Out — How the Clintons Opened the Gates
07:52 – Ch. 3: Dependency by Design — The Hollowing Out of U.S. Industry
11:57 – Ch. 4: Wired for Sabotage — Spy Tech in Our Infrastructure
14:36 – Outro + What’s Coming in Episode 8

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Episode 7 — Receipts

🔻 Chapter 1: The Marxist Playbook — Take the Means of Production
Receipts:
• Marxist Theory of Production Control: Karl Marx, “Critique of the Gotha Programme” — outlines the centrality of controlling production to control society.
• CCP Alignment with Marxist Goals: The Chinese Constitution still pledges allegiance to Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. (Source: Constitution of the People’s Republic of China)
• Deng Xiaoping’s “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”: Enabled capitalist-seeming reforms with long-term Communist control of state power. (Source: Brookings, "What is ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics’?”)
• U.S. Manufacturing Dominance in the 1950s–1970s: U.S. produced over 50% of global manufactured goods post-WWII. (Source: Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Bureau of Economic Research)
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🔻 Chapter 2: Sold Out — How the Clintons Opened the Gates
Receipts:
• Clinton-Gore China Trade Expansion (1994–2000):
o Clinton granted China “Most Favored Nation” (MFN) status permanently in 2000. (Source: U.S. Congressional Research Service)
o Support for China’s entry into the WTO, despite major human rights concerns. (Source: NYT, “Clinton Defends China Trade Deal”)
• 1996 DNC Chinese Foreign Money Scandal:
o Illegal campaign donations traced back to Chinese military-linked entities. (Source: U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Report, 1997)
• Commerce Department Sell-Outs:
o Ron Brown and Commerce officials involved in questionable tech transfer deals. (Source: Judicial Watch, FOIA investigations; Epoch Times)
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🔻 Chapter 3: Dependency by Design — The Hollowing Out of U.S. Industry
Receipts:
• Shift to Offshoring:
o 70,000+ U.S. factories closed between 2001–2020. (Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
o U.S. manufacturing employment dropped from 17 million (2000) to 12 million (2020). (Source: BLS)
• Walmart–China Symbiosis:
o Walmart became the #1 importer of Chinese goods by volume. (Source: Forbes, Economic Policy Institute)
• Consumer Culture Shift:
o Rise of “throwaway” goods driven by cheap imports. Repair shops, cobblers, and seamstresses became obsolete. (Source: The Atlantic, “The Decline of Fixing Things”)
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🔻 Chapter 4: Wired for Sabotage — Chinese Spy Tech in Our Infrastructure
Receipts:
• Chinese Transformers in the U.S. Power Grid:
o 200+ large Chinese transformers currently installed in U.S. electric grid. (Source: DOE Reports, Grid Security Now Initiative)
o 2020: A Chinese-made transformer was seized in Houston due to embedded data components. (Source: Wall Street Journal, May 2020)
• Surveillance Risks from Infrastructure Contracts:
o Reports of data-routing components embedded in transit systems and telecom. (Source: Reuters, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency [CISA])
• Huawei & ZTE Bans:
o U.S. bans on use of Huawei/ZTE in infrastructure due to espionage risk. (Source: FCC, 2020 order; DOJ statements)
• U.S. Grid Vulnerability:
o Congressional testimony: Chinese components pose remote sabotage threat. (Source: U.S. Senate Energy Committee Hearings)

Video: AP archive, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News

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