Well done sir. With all this talk of tariffs and bans I decided I had best inspect and tune the legacy fleet which includes Mavic 1 Pro Platinum and Mavic 2 Zoom. I cried my eyes out when I realized I had carelessly failed to maintain my OEM...
You can't wave a magic wand (or executive order) and say "make it here". You would need to ramp battery production, start making ICs here, and start investing in embedded software. Build a plant that can make the camera lens, and another one...
Not sure what you mean here? Who is betting against the U.S.? It's a reality that we can't do this. If we started the process now, we're looking at probably ten years before we can even start to make a dent in the Chinese drone industry.
There is a lot more information about this case posted here: Chinese-born man takes plea deal after using drone to take 200 photos of Space Force station