BTW, if offshoring isn't killing jobs and automation is, why are these companies moving overseas and hiring human beings instead of robots?
That may have been the case in the 1990s, but it isn't as much anymore. There are a few exceptions (Foxconn being a big one), but in a lot of those cases, especially with electronics, it's more because China has an abundance of the rare minerals used in their production that, alas, the U.S. doesn't have, than it is some nefarious manipulation.
Besides, in Red China's case, their standard of living's rising quickly as its population ages and the targets of offshoring now are even less developed Third World countries where they can more easily get away with the cheap labor.