We can kid ourselves by ridiculing Japan for doing this. But if we're at all interested in truth, we may wish to contemplate what sending most of our manufacturing to China will ultimately accomplish. Ultimately it will see our corporations transfering their R&D to China as well. China will have access to this technology.
THE single most important factor in our own nation's greatness, was it's continual positioning of itself out front of the global technological curve. Now we are evidently willing to turn that over to a foreign entity.
I don't care if it's China. I don't care if it's Panama or any other nation. Doing this, turning over R&D to a foreign entity, is nothing less than national suicide.
Oh it can be said, and it will no doubt be said right here, that the US is not sending it's R&D to China. But the truth is, the US isn't the operative word here. Corporate entities are the operative words. If R&D can be accomplished cheaper in China, guess where R&D will wind up.
Folks if you're sleeping through this, sorry to have disturbed you.
Oh it can be said, and it will no doubt be said right here, that the US is not sending it's R&D to China. But the truth is, the US isn't the operative word here. Corporate entities are the operative words. If R&D can be accomplished cheaper in China, guess where R&D will wind up.
The US model is that we control or will control the world via the IMF, World Bank, CIA, etc. Therefore, the US corporations are free to put their R&D anywhere (except countries on the short black list).
Europe and Japan have no such illusions. European and Japanese companies have been much more cagy about exporting technology. However, as the article points out, the Japanese need to do this to catch up to US companies that are building up R&D capabilities in China.
Yup. The push to move manufacturing to China is going to be even stronger if somehow the Kyoto Protocol gets implemented. China has no limitations under that treaty.