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>China's forays on the world stage are because of money and its increasingly wealthy, educated population.

Deng Xiaoping started Chinese economic reform. You might want to check out China before Deng. its a poorly educated and financially constrained country.

Do you need an educated labor force to assemble iPhone?

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>Do you need an educated labor force to assemble iPhone?

Yes you do.

"Low-skill" workers with basic education (reading, writing, counting, some understanding of some scientific concepts) will simply perform better.

And you still need engineers and other high-skill workers to supervise, maintain, perform quality control, improve methods etc..

The thing is China (at least until quite recently) had a huge quantity of those and at a rather low price.

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