[ausjke]

"largely based in India" == I'm not surprised. Texas Instruments has so many engineers in India that it's joked as "Texas India" these days.

Except for the social-web-developers in SV(facebook,twitter and all that, though Tecent in China is already larger than Facebook in that front too, not to mention Alibaba, Baidu etc), we don't really realize how much of those big companies' products are R&D-ed and manufactured overseas these days from silicon design all the way up. When we wake up, it might be too late already. Sometimes I think the end result will be probably a war, as that's really what US leaves with these days. I hope I'm 100% wrong.

[happyscrappy]

>I hope I'm 100% wrong.

You are. Manufacturing is moving back to the US quickly as labor in China gets more expensive and fuel costs increase.

[final]

Fuel costs are not increasing. Shipping across oceans is extremely cheap. Way more more manufacturing is moving US -> China, than the opposite.

[happyscrappy]

Fuel costs are temporarily down because Europe's economy is so weak, but I wouldn't count on fuel staying this low. Also Chinese labor is not such a bargain as wages rise.