Yeah, I get really tired of this crap from US CEOs.
The fact that the skills aren't there is because your company doesn't pay for them.
Even worse, it's an outright lie and people like Cook know it because they put their money behind it. Haas Automation has an entire line IN THE US producing CNC machines that get shipped to China solely for Apple. Gee, if China was so much better at those skills, why don't you buy the machines there from Chinese suppliers? Hmmmmmm?
The U.S. labor market "began to stop having as many vocational kind of skills"
If the incentives were there, you'd have those football fields full of tool and die makers Tim.