Subj : Re: How far I've come... To : All From : anthk Date : Thu Jul 06 2023 08:59 am On 2023-01-28, Arelor wrote: > > Re: How far I've come... > By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Thu Jan 26 2023 08:47 pm > > > I don't think we're at the point where china makes cheap junk. > > Pretty much this. > > China used to be the laughting stock of the world, selling cheap junk which was > good for barely anything. They aren't anymore. > > So many foreigner countries helped the Chinesse build their industry to produce > merchandise up to European and American standards that at some point they > realized they could use that infrastructure and experience to produce it > themselves. If an European clock manufacturer funds a clock factory in china, > and sends an European foreman to oversee the production of watches, you will > find that factory produces watches under a Chinesse brand when the foreman is > not looking, using European standards and the toolchains the Europeans bought > for them. It happens in Morocco all the time too. > > A contruction engineer I know used to warn us in the early 2010s. "Chinesse > construction steel is no longer total junk. They are starting to show up with > quality stuff." > > > -- > gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken > > --- > þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL Japan was like that in the 60-70's. Cheap copies everywhere, and in the 80's they managed to surpass the West in a lot of places. --- þ Synchronet þ Vertrauen þ Home of Synchronet þ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net .