“The skill here is just incredible.” Those are the words of Apple CEO Tim Cook at a 2017 conference in China. He was describing the quality of manufacturing workers in the formerly destitute country.
Cook's comment shows why Apple and other companies will happily continue to produce in China for the foreseeable future. There are workers, manufacturing processes, and as New York Times reporter Jack Nicas so skillfully explained it in a recent column, crucial inputs as prosaic as a tiny screw that can only be found in abundance in China. Though some Americans strangely recoil at the rise of the Chinese people from staggering poverty, the rather beautiful truth is that their emergence from desperation has been instrumental in the growth of some of the greatest American companies.
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