[SauronOfMordor]

Sooner or later, the chinese and the Indians, will see that they use chinese material, and chinese labor, and chinese factories, and will realize that they dont need american companies getting any profit from it. All american companies in china will eventually be replace by chinese owned and operated factories. At some point in time, Black and Decker, Intel, Lifesavers, etc will be kicked out of china.

It's already happening. Take a look at WalMart, Sears, mail-order firms, etc. They buy Chinese products direct from factory, stick their own "store-brand" labels on them, and sell them for a lot less than the "brand name" products. A cursory side-by-side comparison of a lot of these products will show them to be just as good as the branded products. And why not? they're made in the same factories by the same people

[longtermmemmory]

soft of a tangent:

The LouisVitton factories are located in mexico. The workers smuggle the same materials home and make knock offs. The knock offs are made by the same people and same materials as the ones shipped out of the factory.

The reason to hesitate installing your factory overseas was the threat of nationalizing factories. China has mastered the art of using shell private companies for government aquisitions. (ie chinas onership of both openings of the panema canal. thanks carter)

I had the same concern with Japanese car factories in the USA. Big deal, they still used the Japanese company suppliers and all profits go to the home country.

What is describe with the knock off products, is more a need for intelectual property control to prevent knock offs. Also we need truth in advertising to let consumers know where the product is made and how close it is to the original. (ie this drill is blue that one is orange, but they have the IDENTICAL insides)