Counter-example. I was literally in some Chinese factories two weeks ago, one that makes molds for metal and a separate one that makes molds for plastics. Every

Counter-example. I was literally in some Chinese factories two weeks ago, one that makes molds for metal and a separate one that makes molds for plastics. Everything was automated. Even the major machines on the floor (5-axis metal CNCs, high powered laser cutters, etc.) all had digital interfaces. Some were Japanese, some were French, others were Chinese. There were entire rooms of people creating and updating models and validating injection flows using capable CAM software, apparently written in China and presumably with modeling algorithm implementations by Chinese mathematicians and programmers.