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It's only a matter of time before they start cranking out goods of better design and quality than is possible to make elsewhere.

Tech diffusion went UK->US->Japan->Taiwan->Korea->China. Each time they started off making knockoffs then transitioned to first party manufacture then moved to design and eventually R&D.]]>Mar 5th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/US->Japan->Taiwan->Korea->China

Who's next in that roughly east to west geographic line--India? Then the various "stans" west of India? Russia and/or its former republics?

Then all the way back around to the UK.]]>Mar 6th 2008 1:51AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/US->Japan->Taiwan->Korea->China

Who's next in that roughly east to west geographic line--India? Then the various "stans" west of India? Russia and/or its former republics?

Then all the way back around to the UK.]]>Mar 6th 2008 1:55AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/Mar 6th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/Mar 8th 2008 3:36PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/05/former-lg-employee-leaks-1b-in-top-secret-plasma-info-to-chines/
Not only is labor FREE there, but their R&D is too.

They will have all the jobs, yet no lives worth living, and we'll have no jobs to buy their useless Low end products.
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We were an undeveloped country that was stealing IP from Europe and making very low cost versions of products due to our very cheap living costs and standards of living. We had draconian living conditions and lived under the thumbs of very rich and powerful aristocrats who used money to buy laws and power to keep the workers down. At times private armies and at times the US army was used to enforce this power over the workers and forcefully make them work.

Things changed here. It took a century of build up and 30 years of rapid change.

I suspect that the same will happen in China.

The way to survive this global change is to pay attention to your interests at home and ensure your footing is stable. If China doesn't take the global role some other country will. It's not important if China takes a leading global role as long as the US is in good shape. ]]>Mar 6th 2008 3:25PM