>people making salaries 10-25% of what Germans get.
The likes of Huawei pay their engineers six figure salaries plus tonnes of perks. You're crazy if you think skilled Chinese engineers make only 15% of those in Germany. All their engineers would emigrate abroad if that were the case and they wouldn't be making domestic CPUs and AI accelerators.
> All their engineers would emigrate abroad if that were the case and they wouldn't be making domestic CPUs and AI accelerators.
Maybe, though nationalism may play a role here, especially if they believe themselves to be the underdogs. Not everybody only optimizes for money.