These Collies need to know their place!
We're fine with the Chinese doing the grunt work, making stuff cheaply for us so we can goose our markups. But they're really getting above themselves -- chips, smartphones, even airliners, who do they think they are?
Seriously, though, I've been living with the "Well, they're good at copying but they can't develop anything new" mantra for years. Its complete BS, of course -- go to any American tech company and count heads -- Chinese heads -- and you'll see a good many of them at all levels. So its not surprising that they're doing the same work in China; they've got the resources, the capital and the infrastructure (and it doesn't hurt that they're turning out north of 30,000 engineers a year from their universities).
This Sinophobia has to stop. Yes, they're formidable competitors and they're going to get even more difficult to deal with in the future. The answer isn't to Cold War like some dreadful remake of Dr. No, we've just got to step our game up. We -- in the US -- also need to reclaim some of our manufacturing capability; we let it all dwindle over the last 15 years or so, laying of experienced people because we could get stuff cheaply from China. Now we can't get experienced staff for love or money -- they don't exist (maybe we should start recruiting in China?).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
