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> What they stopped manufacturing was menial and low-end product This statement is as inaccurate as the comment you’re trying to debunk. The fact is that China
by rayiner 9mo ago
> What they stopped manufacturing was menial and low-end product
This statement is as inaccurate as the comment you’re trying to debunk. The fact is that China leveraged it’s low-end manufacturing work to work its way up the chain and now is the leader in many areas: https://itif.org/publications/2025/09/23/how-china-is-outperforming-the-united-states-in-critical-technologies https://itif.org/publications/2025/09/23/how-china-is-outper.... E.g. China has been investing heavily in radar technology and as a result has air to air missiles with comparable range to the U.S. https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/why_the_us_is_alarmed_by_chinas_long_range_pl_17_missile_and_what_makes_it_so_dangerous-17351.html https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/why_the_us_is_alar...
There are synergies to having the high end stuff and the low end stuff in the same place. The story of IBM developing System 360 mentions the benefit from the ladies who wound the wire core memory and the guys who designed the computer on the same campus in New York. We gave that up when we outsourced the “menial” stuff abroad.
- deaddodo 9mo agoYour entire blurb doesn't prove an inaccuracy, it simply shows that China has diversified it's manufacturing beyond low-end manufacturing. I never claimed that they did not do high-end manufacturing.
- rayiner 9mo agoThe point is that high end and low end manufacturing are intimately related. You can’t outsource your low end manufacturing without your high end eventually collapsing. The U.S. still manufactures high end products in some fields. But in many areas we have lost the high end as well as the low end. E.g. we can’t compete with the Chinese in electric cars.
- rangestransform 8mo agoWhen I was at Tesla, this was the reason given for having the Fremont factory despite Bay Area labour prices