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The west is an information and trchnology economy. If it has specialties in anything it’s in high tech. As fast rising and impressive as Chinese tech is, it’s s
by chrischen 7y ago
The west is an information and trchnology economy. If it has specialties in anything it’s in high tech. As fast rising and impressive as Chinese tech is, it’s still generally inferior. We’re not not scrambling for Chinese devices because of tariffs, they’re just usually coming in on the low end.
Manufacturing is also the low-value end of the supply chain. Building up expertise at the top (Apple, Microsoft, Google, Intel, AMD, Nvidia—level tech) is exponentially harder than building up the bottom end.
- klingonopera 7y agoThe first iPhone rattled the headlines, but I'd argue the third or fourth generation is what really settled it into the mainstream. In other words, the West may the first to have fully automated factories and warehouses, but China is likely to be the first to deploy them on a large-scale.