I don’t know, but they were buying up our $2 million electron microscopes incredibly fast, it was our biggest market. We didn’t even send installers over, they had local people for all that.
You don’t buy those so you can make plastic toys for vending machines.
Because they wanted to do research or take them apart to reverse engineer it? China is certainly advanced at a lot of things, but a submarine that isn't a POS involves a lot of serious engineering disciplines. They will get there, but they're still behind.
That's true but the Japanese had a lot to play with- American cars were, and still mostly are, basically gutter trash. And not because Americans were incapable of making a better car, but because corpo fags didn't want to. Japan recognized this gap (a consumer desire to buy less shitty cars) and pounced on it.People laughed at Japanese cars in the 70s, then they ate our lunch.