> China is capable of producing high quality trucks. Its obviously a clone of the Humvee.
Quality trucks, quality tools, quality instrumentation... while the world has slept China has done exactly what Japan did. And it worked.
India is doing the same thing.
Here in NZ we have been getting Chinese and Indian manufactured goods at ridiculously cheap prices, ahead of most the rest of the world. To begin with, it was mostly junk. Then, mostly hi-quality knock-offs of Japanese or Korean goods. Now, Chinese branded goods and not so inexpensive anymore.
If America still wants to have a manufacturing capability they better watch out: after WW-II they stood alone in this field. Now, there is Japan, Germany, Korea, China, India, Russia...
I am going to let you in on a little secret...auto manufacturing is one of the most low tech manufacturing items available today. Anyone can be trained to work on an assembly line in less than 3 minutes. The reason the foreign companies have the advantage is they can fire the incompetent, and the lazy. Our auto companies do not have that luxury.......
So, what does your Gaelic tagline say? “All Ozzies are losers and traveling Poms? ??? ;-)
No. NFW. Japan's intent has always been to make money by making quality products. The first couple of years were a little rough quality wise.
China's intent has always been to make money. Period. Reliability and quality are absolutely not in the mix. There are uncountable stories of Chinese counterfeiting, poor quality, thievery, and outright fraud every day. And there is no sign whatsoever that they have any intention to make a good product.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the first thing a Chinese company does when they are given (or steal) a design for an electronic device (let's say it's a DVD player) is to sort the list of materials by price, then systematically try to eliminate parts one at a time to determine if the thing still runs without it. If it does, the part stays out. It's left for the customer to determine that that part was there to make sure that the thing still worked after a year as other parts "drifted" slightly away from their original operating characteristics.