No, western executives aren't shaken by visiting China. Most major car manufacturers build cars in China, the Chinese learned how to build cars from them. The Chinese did not discover some magic way to build cars better than everyone else.
What China does is relentlessly improve. It absolutely has the goal to be totally dominant in all areas of manufacturing. They do this by delivering the highest value product they can. Optimizing production and focusing on their customers.
In the US mechanical and manufacturing engineers are a small niche. Compared to Software they are badly paid, get less benefits (e.g. remote work) and have few promising or ground breaking companies to work for. That is what should be terrifying to everyone. America has no engineering culture and has no manufacturing culture. Pretending otherwise is just deluding oneself.
Here in Germany that manufacturing culture is dying. There are still new engineers, but companies, especially automotive, have stopped hiring and are cutting jobs.
China is in it to win. The west has not even decided that they want to compete. The US is focusing on Software above everything else. Germany is abandoning manufacturing for an uncertain alternative.
They should have been already. I expect China to completely decimate all US legacy automotive brands as electric becomes the dominate car technology unless they somehow step it up big time. Tesla has a chance, Rivian and the other smaller electric brands have a chance, but I’m not optimistic. China is pulling away in battery technology and cost efficiencies.
If they try to rely on protectionism and tarrifs, it will fail. Consumers will demand access to superior products.
We MUST have high tariffs to protect and rebuild our manufacturing industries and agricultural industry. China can cut us off at any time and it is a major national security threat to be solely dependent on an evil dictatorship using slave labor and insanely bad environmental practices.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadIt's too late and our politically motivated leadership is only making the issue worse.
Everything the USA is suppressing, China is promoting. For example, education and renewable energy.
The USA is investing heavily in AI but divesting in the cheap energy it needs to become viable.
Strategy wise, it makes no sense --- mostly due to political influence from vested interests.
No, western executives aren't shaken by visiting China. Most major car manufacturers build cars in China, the Chinese learned how to build cars from them. The Chinese did not discover some magic way to build cars better than everyone else.
What China does is relentlessly improve. It absolutely has the goal to be totally dominant in all areas of manufacturing. They do this by delivering the highest value product they can. Optimizing production and focusing on their customers.
In the US mechanical and manufacturing engineers are a small niche. Compared to Software they are badly paid, get less benefits (e.g. remote work) and have few promising or ground breaking companies to work for. That is what should be terrifying to everyone. America has no engineering culture and has no manufacturing culture. Pretending otherwise is just deluding oneself.
Here in Germany that manufacturing culture is dying. There are still new engineers, but companies, especially automotive, have stopped hiring and are cutting jobs.
China is in it to win. The west has not even decided that they want to compete. The US is focusing on Software above everything else. Germany is abandoning manufacturing for an uncertain alternative.
If they try to rely on protectionism and tarrifs, it will fail. Consumers will demand access to superior products.