The Covid-19 shed a harsh light on the priority for democracies to relocate the production of many essential goods, which has become a monopoly of Asia, and particularly of China.
But relocation is an art of execution.
However, it is far from being won.
Not all activity can be relocated, either for geographical reasons (energy and raw materials), or for technological reasons (disappearance of skills and equipment), or for economic reasons (too low added value).
In addition, the history of reindustrialisation policies is marked by bitter failures.
And this especially in France, since the calamitous attempt to reconquer the domestic market in 1981.
Despite the multiplication of support plans, the industry in our country saw its share in added value fall to 11% (16% in the euro zone and 22% in Germany) and lost 2.5 million jobs in a quarter of a century.
Worse, number of companies and
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