On 2015-12-22 2:26 PM, graham wrote:

> The Apple CEO the other day said that China has invested wisely in
> vocational education and the number of tool and die makers is orders of
> magnitude above the USA's, where there has been encouragement to go to
> university. That's why, in large part, companies have had little choice
> but to send their work to the PRC.

We missed a lesson from two world wars. They were won by the side that,
in addition to having a lot of healthy and well fed and well trained
troops, had the industrial capacity to produce the ships, planes,
vehicles, arms and ammunition to fight the war.