Clara Gaymard, the French head of GE, an American conglomerate which successfully manufactures high-tech industrial stuff in France, put it well in her response to Mr Taylor's letter.
Mr. Trubitsyn, 36, whose company, Tion, manufactures high-tech air-purification systems for homes and hospitals, is accused of risking the lives of hospital patients, and trying to lift profits, by upgrading the purifiers so they would consume less electricity.
Foxconn manufactures high-tech electronics for international companies including Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Sony at enormous plants with as many as 400,000 workers.
By 1972, Matthews had co-founded the Mitel Corporation, which successfully designed and manufactured high-tech voice communication systems.
Currently, the United States imports only limited high-tech products from China — but does import inputs used to manufacture high-tech goods in the United States.
Mr. Zhou said that China was also working hard to develop its own capability to manufacture high-tech materials that can withstand the torque, humidity and other stresses that affect wind turbines.
Restoring the ability of enterprises to develop and manufacture high-tech products in America is the only way the country can hope to pay down its enormous deficits and raise its citizens' standard of living.
Today, most solar cells are manufactured in high-tech facilities with hospital-like clean rooms.
Tanboocel bamboo fiber is a regenerated cellulose fiber manufactured by an environmentally friendly high tech process using natural organic bamboo.
At the other extreme, some high tech companies now develop products that are manufactured by others.
For high tech industries (e.g., the manufacture of laptop computers and mobile phones) recreating the infrastructure in China somewhere else would be expensive and difficult to do.
