almost every chip is made there..we're digging ourselves the grave
There is a big difference between buying from a respectable company and from the last-dude from china.
Chips are made there, yes, correct, but! Respectable companies care for their workers safety, and for waste recycling, which doesn't produce tons of polluting for air, water and food.
The last-dude from China doesn't, on the contrary he/she enslaves workers and his/her fraudolent activity only produce garbage for you (a fake defective product) and pollution.
compatriots don't want to produce that anymore except a little auto and military
You haven't understood the main point: things like "certification", "workers safety" and "waste recycling" add a cost to the production line, so ... what do you expect if a fraudulent fsking Chinese company simply doesn't care in order to put products (fakes, craps defective, all garbage) for a ridiculous price in place like ebay and Alixpress?
Here is where those fakes come from. And I can assure you we don't pay it in money, but the Earth planet pays it with her blood, since to produce a fake always ends with polluting.
Air Pollution in China
Have you ever heard about "CE" logo falsification? Chinese also do it, usually with catastrophic consequences for the final users. Domestic incidents where your sons can be hurt. Yes, it also happens with toys.
I work for an avionic company, we have a lot of money and we can care about workers safety and quality because our job tasks are committed for the army, which means the money comes from taxes.
It's a good ecosystem, which produces a lot of benefits, but it can't be applied to other products on the large scale, such as ... civil products.
I don't think we are lazy, I think we should stop to buy those articles (when they are too cheap .. something smells) from China, increase job occupations, increase university backgrounds, reduce taxes (this will impact on avionics, but it will allow little local companies to grow up), inject more money (to help little local companies to grow up), and change the banks power in order to be able to be independent from China.
Banks are going miserable with us in Italy since they only want to promote big companies, which becoming Chinese companies. It wouldn't be so bad, but it moves people, it moves money, it moves the know/how, all abroad, reducing those who can "do" stuff locally. At the end, it will be a dead cycle.
It would be also good to enforce the Interpol control in order to stop those fraudulent activities. It already happens, but ... we are too slow and Chinese are too crafty in reacting when they are catch.
As you know, when you catch a fraudolent, you look for the person in charge, Chinese happen to move in large groups, therefore if you catch one, there are others.
Enforcing the Interpol power at least reduces the reaction time. More are catch, more are stopped.