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Originally Posted by Torwan
I didn't think that this fact (China as biggest manufacturer of engineers) needed sources...
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OK, great, they have more engineers.
Why is this a problem? Or are you genuinely going to suggest that the US quintuple the number of engineers? Or perhaps China should revert to an impoverished agrarian economy?
Oh, and let's not forget that a big reason why China is doing well now is because their government loosened its iron grip over its economy. It's not so much that "zomg the US is declining," it's that China is
improving.
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Originally Posted by Torwan
Fact is, a lot of manufacturing was moved to China in the last decades. That meant that manufacturing skills rose there and dropped somewhere else.
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This is not a zero-sum game. It's not like there is a finite amount of manufacturing experience that gets distributed around the world.
Besides, it wouldn't take long for the US to ramp up production if we really needed to. And why would we need to?
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Originally Posted by Torwan
And with their rise in engineering, they'll probably not just go on being the "big manufacturing plant of the world", but to develop themselves.
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Seriously, you haven't offered a single cogent argument to the effect that it's a bad thing for China's economy to advance and improve.