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Re:There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries–and China Is W... by icelancer on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:04AM (#16357702)
And where are all of our tech things made?

China is very much the center as well. Just in different verticals. You may not like that, but that's indisputable.

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Re:There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries–and China Is W... by joelb2014 on Monday February 12, 2018 @05:37AM (#16357802)
It is today but things like lower-skilled manufacturing have a way of moving quickly to the lowest cost locale. Anecdotally from relationships with a few hardware companies (US & EU) there has been an increasing shift out of China for as wages have gone up on the mainland

Article on wage increase in China (2017): https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/27/chinese-wages-rise-made-in-c...

edit: defined type of manufacturing (lower-skilled)

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Re:There’s a Global Race to Control Batteries–and China Is W... by HumanDrivenDev on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:24PM (#16361736)
> And where are all of our tech things made?

Oh, overwhelming China. It perhaps would have been less confusing had I said "the software world".

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