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China can’t even make a ball-point pen: http://www.ejinsight.com/20160121-what-ball-pen-tells-us-abo...

Or even ball-bearings: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a20837/german-chi...

Most of China’s industrial robots are made by Germany, the US, and Japan. The Chinese are hopeless at precision engineering.

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I don't know if you are trolling or its your genuine world view. Although, I won't be surprised at all if it is. To say the Chinese is hopeless at precision engineering shows how narrow minded your world view is. The article you linked makes a huge assumption on why the Chinese import the ball bearings instead of manufactoring it themselves. A simple explanation why they don't import these bearings is because its not economically sound to do so. When the cost of importing a goods or service is cheaper than producing it yourself, you choose to import. Econ 101. And to transform that assumption to generalize a whole country's industry simply ignorant. All that article does is confirm your own internal bias.

The ball-point pen example had to be retired a few months ago: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-01/10/content_279140...

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