[Golden Eagle]

Let's see, the Chinese are getting free advanced engineering training, factories built on their properties, jobs for their people, and you think you can bully them with "standards", especially as the biggest US employers in China like IBM are pushing for "open" standards? Read the article, they just blew us out of the water on overall tech exports and the difference between the two, just like our dependence on their overall exports, is only going to grow.

[sam_paine]

they just blew us out of the water on overall tech exports

I respect your opinion, and I share the desire for the US to remain superior to the Chicoms.

I disagree that "overall tech exports" or "expanding US imports" of manufactured goods indicates a dwindling US technology lead.

The Chicoms can build all they want, but this capability says nothing of their ability to design a system from ground up.

• "Technical training" on how to handle a motherboard without zapping it gives them zero capability to innovate a new design.
• Training someone (in Tennesee or Michigan or China) how to run a torque wrench does nothing to educate anyone on how to design a critically underdamped spring and schock absorber system.
• Building an advanced hydro-forming frame construction factory does nothing to enable someone to design a critically balanced weight-to-strength optimized truck frame.
• Building a semiconductor fab plant does nothing to provide them with the EDA capability to synthesize their own ASIC designs.

I'm not sticking my head in the sand by sying this, but my point of view tells me that the more they build their economy on things they don't understand, the more precarious they become.

If the Chinese were to copy our free government, and implement a lower tax structure, and enable more freedom from political correctness, etc., such that China had a better standard of living than the US, would you still be anti-China?