anand
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This is where I stopped reading.
I am sick of people calling the Chinese 'cheaters' because they can reverse engineer like nobody's business. I am a senior engineering student, and I know that one of the most difficult engineering capabilities to master is reverse engineering. There are many advantages to using reverse engineering techniques, for example, they can give u an edge over your competitors, or bring you up-to-par with them. Every corporation, fron Sony to BMW, utilizes reverse engineering, but nobody would call them 'cheaters'. Also, in engineering, a 'copy' does not mean inferior. Examples of 'copies' being better than the original can be found in every industry, from cell phones to automobiles to the gaming industry.
That being said, I should also let you guys know that the country with the world's leading defence industry, the US, started out with 'copies' of German designs, as admitted by Americans themselves. German engineers, after WWI and WWII, were heavily recruited by the Americans and the British, and even the Russians (rocket technology). These engineers worked in various industries, from Formula 1 to the space industry and even consumer electronics. As a matter of fact, the space industry in the USSR and the US owed German ex-Nazis a great deal. The Americans who frequent these forums will tell you how, every once in a while, you hear something in the news about an ex-Nazi being given pardon by the govt. in return for his engineering expertise.
So please, don't write ignorant and hate-filled comments simply because you could not engineer something better than someone else.
Whether Chinese are cheater or not that i will leave to individual perceptions. But what Chinese has done is not reverse engineering. It was simple copy paste. When china was developing its industries, they did not import equipments, rather they strengthened their manufacturing industry and manufactured all equipments. By doing so they got two things, first all the drawings of equipment and second experience to manufacture those equipments. I do not know about defense industry. But i can tell you about two industries (of which i have gt exposure since it is my field), Power and steel. Chinese are supplying equipments at cheaper rate than Europeans.
Chinese emergence has benefited India immensely. First it has broken European monopoly and helped small industries to start project with small capital.
This has forced Europeans to slash price of critical equipments, by shifting manufacturing to china, thus benefiting both china and India.
There is no shame in accepting that china has better manufacturing abilities than India, whereas India's strength lies in services.