I don't think that the contribution I made to this post can be in any way considered "rascist"? Nor do I see anything particularly rascist in any of the other posts on this subject.
The fact is China was world super power thousand of years ago and dominated Asia for many centuries. As one of the worlds most ancient civilisations in was more advanced in the fileds of science, mathematics, astronomy and technology of the time than any other country in the world at that time.
It has been refered to as "the sleeping giant in the East" and this aquisition of the production of IBM computers goes to show how far this nation has risen over the last 20 years or so after the end of Mao's time as it's leader, a time when China was led into a so called "cultural revolution" which set it, it's people and it's economy back many years by comparison with the Western hemisphere.
The trend in many industries now in the Western world is to "out source" it's production and this is true of both production and manufacturing being moved not only to China but also to India and many other nations in Asia. The lower costs in salary's and other over heads is very attractive to many Western companies and as a result this "out sourceing" leads to much greater profits for the companies that do it.
The Chinese government and people would be foolish in the extreme to miss such a golden opportunity for investment and advancement for their country.
We now for better or worse, are part of a global economy and this trend will continue for many years to come, for us in the West it is a double edged sword in as much as we may lose manufacturing jobs but will gain in much lower prices for certain goods.
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