Wii in China

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auroragb said:

Apparently, you can't delete comment boxes in firefox :(

Anyhow, companies are putting assembly and labor intensive jobs in China.  The tech that goes to China are generally last gen, because it's not as valuable and can lower manufacturing costs.  Corporations (unless they are Chinese company) are very adament about keeping leading edge IP out of China because of the piracy issue (how many 65nm semiconductor plants are in China? None).  China is catching up fast, but is still quite behind the leading edge, so "stealing" tech (one man's stealing is another man's sharing without consent) is very much real.

This is also the real reason why they don't want western standards, so that they don't have to steal if they are the source.  They don't want reliance on foreign tech, so they make their own or take it so it becomes theirs.

btw, I am Chinese.

Ok. The thing i was meaning, was that companies are increasing, besides manufacturing, also their R&D to countries like China and India. And if i remember correctly, China is starting to have top universities. Infact, i think the Shanghai university is at the moment doing more researches than any other university in the world, or i could also be wrong about that. Globalisation isn't necessarily bad thing, it's all about the rules, by which it is done. Anyway, there has been global trade for hundreds of years now.