I guess we will soon just use Chinese-made software too then.
- Not chocolate, but I was amazed when I saw a bag of dried apples came from China.
> drinking Chinese beer,
- I'd be more worried about it skunking...
> driving Chinese assembled cars,
This actually reminds me, I forgot to see how that spat where GM didn't want to have to pay taxes on Chinese assembled cars they sell in the US wound up finishing.
> and watching Chinese movies?
Someone made a rather convincing argument that the influence of Chinese financiers in the film industry has contributed to shifts in the movies we get.
Now, there are those who may say 'But were any of those Megacorps?' The Apples were Dole, the cars were GM, and the movies (in question in the argument made) were Disney.
My counterpoint to that is that one has to consider that China in this case is the megacorp, due to the level of involvement/oversight they have over the companies that operate in their country.
As a rule, Big corporations do not innovate - they form cartels and sit on their products extracting rent. We have already seen the severe drop in innovation in the mobile space, now that the market is settled.