It not corp propaganda it is reality that those jobs are not coming back to the US or most of Europe.  You can jump up and down and scream all you want about how unfair it all was which in many cases it was but that does not change that many products that were made in the US will be made in Asia and elsewhere.   Free trade or managed trade in your words is a fact of life and there will be winners and losers in all of this.  I was in a Harbor Freight place the other day and it was packed with guys buying tools and other Chinese crap.  Can these items be bought elsewhere at better quality? of course,  but are these people willing to send the money on more expensive items because it made in the USA? no they are not.  Ask the thousands of people per day in Wal Mart if they will pay more.  That is reality.