Nez, the Japanese workers have a very good work ethic. The communist have destroyed any work ethic or pride the Chinese ever had. I have been heavily involved in the machine tool industry since 1968. I know good machines from junk produced by slave labor!
How any communist Chinese automobiles or firearms do you own?
Read the Anticomintern Pact of 1936-1937. Japan was crossing China to stop Mao coming out of Russia!! FDR set up an ambargo to strangle Japan...Pearl Harbor——a false flag event by the communist FDR!
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I ran numerous capital projects in Japan and was an expat in China for 4 years when we built the most advanced semiconductor factory in the country, I do have first hand first hand experience dealing with local workers, engineers, and managers.
China coming out of the dark ages of the cultural revolution in the late 60s, where the country was turned into the ruling party's utopian agrarian nation, purging the educated, coupled with the exodus of the Kuomintang earlier, the country had the gravest challenge to lift themselves and be where they are today.
As a nation, Japan, no doubt, has the best national discipline, and maybe the safest country I have ever been.
Taiwan was mentioned and the quality comparison. In 2000 when I was in China, most of the industries were ran and managed by Taiwanese. The Chinese were smart enough to acknowledge their limitations that if they needed to jump start their manufacturing, they needed the expertise, and the Taiwanese speak the business language, a convenient match. When we sold the factory to a Chinese entity, I had the sad task of the detailed asset transfer to the new management - all Taiwanese, all US educated.
The government car leased to me by the city was Chinese made, an Audi clone, it was not bad, not a Lexus for sure. I could have had a Buick van made in China from a leasing company, I preferred the city car with government plates. It has its priveledges that goes along with my government driver for 4 years.
Slave labor wages is so when compared with US wages. Local wages there are what the economy drives. Average workers may not make a lot compared to their US counterparts, but adequate. I used to spend less than 30 US cents for a good lunch at mom and pop places. My wife goes to the Sheraton and spends 20 USD. This is the difference between the local typical economy as opposed to western standard.
Would you ride in a Chinese made MagLev high speed train, clicking at 200+ kph? What if I tell you with German engineering powering it? Probably so. China partnered with the Germans to build a high speed train from Pudong to Shanghai with the contract that future systems will be built in China under German tutelage. That was 18 years ago. I have not checked, I won't be surprised if they surpassed Japan in number of high speed rail system by now.
