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I believe the US and Japan can do what the Chinese are doing (at least technologically they're capable) but they just couldn't carry it out on a massive scale. I suspect they're counting their cents so they're reluctant to put in a huge outlay for fear of offending their shareholders and workers.

You don't forget The German. If you ask me which country produce the Best engineer, I still will say the German.
Nope, Shareholders don't care what is " welfare on workers etc " Shareholders Only concern the company able to profit a lot or not. Means the CEO try all means to get the company earn profits, even " so call do bad things or nasty ways etc "