[quotePardon me if I suggest that's rather outdated thinking. The power to control information and technology will determine who rules the roost going forward, not who has the most pig iron production.
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Manufacturing will never be outdated. Computer chips and circuit boards still have to be manufactured. And we are losing ground rapidly in the technology sector. I'd be willing to bet that 99% of the circuity components in my computer (and yours, too) came from Asia. Perhaps software design? Write up a new whiz bang program and see how long it takes for the Chineese to pitate it, and what recourse would you have when they did? No one else is playing by the rules that we do, and they are screwing us to death.

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