oh and not meaning to put some oil on the smoldering fire but I think most westerners who have issues with china manufacturing is that some chinese companies are stealing R&D from western companies and without having to pay for it they can undercut the western company, this situation cannot go on forever, either chinese companies will have to do and pay R&D for themselves or western R&D companies will stop doing R&D?!
Finally some fresh oil !!
The stealing .... its an myth ... Greece had offer so much to this planet as knowledge ,
and nothing was patented or limited .... The Greeks did the R&D , and they gave it as gift to any one.
If you are looking to find the ways of how the " western R&D " (if there is such a thing) .... traveled to China ,
ask all the American corporations , who moved their business down to China ..
And they are still there !!
And something last, generally speaking about R&D , this is no " national goods " or "national treasure" ..
Its clearly knowledge in a human head .
Where the human goes , his knowledge follows .
There is 8.000 Greeks teachers and professors , teaching in the American schools and university's as we speak.
NASA, has people from all over the planet , working for them doing R&D.
Every one can pay any one, to move and do R&D for him ...
And as last , I do not think that one billion of people, are that stupid , to need any western R&D ,
as technological support..