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Reddit mentions of In the Jaws of the Dragon
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> Let's hope it's reciprocal
You should read: In the Jaws of the Dragon if you think it'll ever be reciprocal.
The story of Google's attempt at working in China is particularly interesting.
Thanks for the detailed writeup. My experience is definitely more on the software side, so wrt hardware I only know what little I see directly or hear from my colleagues. When I was at HP we had Global Development Centers in India and China (GDIC and GDCC) but most of the work went to India. Turnover was way worse in India but labor was cheaper in China. Code was incredibly bad everywhere unless it was just super simple webforms that you could realistically create a complete spec for and not leave any decisions up to the implementer.
My brother-in-law is an ME (was Sony, now Otterbox) and is back and forth to Asia 2 weeks every month so I get to hear some pretty hairy stories from him. As you said, once they ramp up to massive volume they tend to do OK. Most consumers in the USA aren't willing the pay the price increase that would be incurred by using western labor or following western labor rules as far as I can tell.
FWIW, Eamonn Fingleton in "In the Jaws of the Dragon" documents some pretty strong trade barriers as well in Japan for cars.
"The Japanese establishment deploys a host of techniques to limit foreigners' access. The result is that the combined share of all foreign carmakers has remained remarkably constant at a mere 4 to 5 percent for more than twenty years. The foreign share has not increased even on those rare occasions when the yen has risen sharply on foreign-exchange markets (the yen rocketed nearly 80 percent against the American dollar between 1990 and 1995 for example). It is particularly significant that there are no Korean cars on Japanese roads." (page 258)
China can open up plants here and employ American workers if they want to sell cars here. At least we give them that option. Though it will be interesting to see if people will trust the Chinese cars if they're branded with a Chinese name. I know Huawei left the US market recently due to trust issues, which is particularly funny when we know for a fact our own telecom companies are giving all of our data to the government.