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I believe people like you have very poor realisation of the gravity such statement carry. China been the factory of the world for the last 25 years. It has mor

I believe people like you have very poor realisation of the gravity such statement carry. China been the factory of the world for the last 25 years. It has more than six to seven fold per-capita employment rate in technical professions than USA, and more than four times the population. With all that given, it hard to fathom what a nation needs to do for 25 years to not to become proficient in technology when circumstances are so favourable. Saying the opposite is not pretentious, it's stupid. I myself spent much of my career working in OEM manufacturing, and been involved in setting up manufacturing enterprises in USA, Canada, and China. The difference in real world skill level in between workers in China, and America is stunning. Putting it shortly, US recent engineering grads fare barely better than Chinese highschoolers at line work. Hiring manufacturing specialists in US is a futile endeavour. I can hire a specialist to program any major brand of chipshooters in a few days in Guangdong, in America, it took us 10 weeks to find somebody who was just capable of passing the interview test.

m0zg 6y ago
And it's not difficult to see why. For about 25 years (before Trump) the government of the United States made it easier to manufacture stuff in China than in the US, stripping the country bare of vital manufacturing capacity. The process is still ongoing in Europe, with no end in sight. Of course there won't be any manufacturing capacity remaining, and of course fresh grads wouldn't be interested in training for jobs that do not exist. That's not because the Chinese are inherently smarter or more talented. That's because the US government had allowed the business establishment to ship everything overseas for a quick buck. To say that China somehow "caught up" to the US using nothing but their own wits is, well, dim-witted.

m0zg 6y ago

And it's not difficult to see why. For about 25 years (before Trump) the government of the United States made it easier to manufacture stuff in China than in the US, stripping the country bare of vital manufacturing capacity. The process is still ongoing in Europe, with no end in sight. Of course there won't be any manufacturing capacity remaining, and of course fresh grads wouldn't be interested in training for jobs that do not exist. That's not because the Chinese are inherently smarter or more talented. That's because the US government had allowed the business establishment to ship everything overseas for a quick buck. To say that China somehow "caught up" to the US using nothing but their own wits is, well, dim-witted.