I watched the video. It doesnt seem to say that China is behind in machine tooling—rather the opposite: prices are falling, capacity is increasing, new technology is rapidly adopted.
Okay? I said they’re behind in high precision machine tooling, not machine tooling in general. That was the point of the video.
Admittedly, I’m not sure what the significance of this is. To make the fastest missiles I’m sure you’d need the best machine tools, but maybe you don’t need the fastest missiles if you can make twice as many. Manufacturing automation is much harder if there’s random error in the positions of things, but whether we’re dealing with that amount of error, I’m not sure. I’d guess low grade machine tools also probably require high grade machine tools to make.
I watched the video. It doesnt seem to say that China is behind in machine tooling—rather the opposite: prices are falling, capacity is increasing, new technology is rapidly adopted.
Okay? I said they’re behind in high precision machine tooling, not machine tooling in general. That was the point of the video.
Admittedly, I’m not sure what the significance of this is. To make the fastest missiles I’m sure you’d need the best machine tools, but maybe you don’t need the fastest missiles if you can make twice as many. Manufacturing automation is much harder if there’s random error in the positions of things, but whether we’re dealing with that amount of error, I’m not sure.
I’d guess low grade machine tools also probably require high grade machine tools to make.