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What part of "small business" do you not understand? Most SBOs are nowhere near the 1% and manufacturing wages in China are pretty competitive globally, not to mention their manufacturing infrastructure is the only in the world capable of handling certain build demands. Your perception of China seems ~20 years out of date.
Small capital is still capital and relies on labor exploitation. If your talking about manufacturing wages globally then you should be talking about that SBOs income globally too which would put them in the top 1%. If there were no labor exploitation and the revenue from the sale of the products were split evenly among the laborers the SBO would be payed far less and the manufacturing workers in China would be paid far more.
You mean demands due to cheap & often forced labor?
https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/country-studies/china/
I'm just going to take that website at its face value because I've never heard of it but China's ranking is just below the US itself and far above other countries in SEA. Is it the best possible scenario? No. Are American SBOs the Devil for manufacturing in China (versus Vietnam, Thailand, etc.)? No.