once you outsource manufacturing all the engineering and technical skill quickly follows. This is obvious to any trained Western engineer who knows that manufa

once you outsource manufacturing all the engineering and technical skill quickly follows. This is obvious to any trained Western engineer who knows that manufacturing is a sophisticated engineering discipline in its own right, and once you master it, the other branches of engineering naturally follow. Western managers however, believed that the Chinese would be content to do just manufacturing forever, and were incapable of doing design. A classic example of how racism bites you in the arse. Having said that none of those managers will suffer, they've already cashed out.