“How many engineers and scientist can China and India field? A ton of them”
Really?
You ever worked with Engineers from China or India or Russia or Pakistan?
They are stubborn morons who can’t function in a team environment. I’ve been on $Billion$ Dollar projects where for diversity’s sake plenty of foreigners were handed roles and almost every single of them were nightmares to work with. Not to mention the HR issues they brought.
These third world nations make junk and it’s because they skip multiple steps in the engineering, design, and production process. Quantity is never quality.
Communication and the ability to do it effectively with strong leadership is not something they are known for.
I have worked with Indian engineers. Well at least they were from India but were naturalized Americans. Never really had any problems with them.
One of my bosses was from Taiwan. He was a veterinarian, DVM and PhD. We loved him, he stood up against management who wanted to alter data to say something it didn’t.
When we saw him do that he earned a boatload of respect from others in the department.
No Russians or Pakistanis. Never worked with them.