>It is hard to see how moving things from China to Vietnam is an improvement.
It's an improvement in the way that multiple competitors are almost always an improvement. Say the world wants to pressure China to reduce CO2 emissions or release the Uighurs from internment camps, having another producer of certain critical goods weakens their negotiating position.
Also Vietnam is a lot more likely to be open to democratic reforms than China is in the foreseeable future.
It's an improvement in the way that multiple competitors are almost always an improvement. Say the world wants to pressure China to reduce CO2 emissions or release the Uighurs from internment camps, having another producer of certain critical goods weakens their negotiating position.
Also Vietnam is a lot more likely to be open to democratic reforms than China is in the foreseeable future.
>Nearly all passives
Also this is not true.