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I'll refer you all to the fact that China has only just now managed to make ball-point pens. Up until just a month ago, the ball-point pens used in China were made in Japan, Germany, or to a lesser extent, the USA. Also, look at Chinese automobile design and crash tests. Making a nearly perfect 0.3 mm sphere of a very hard material is a difficult process that China, self-admittedly, had failed to do for decades.
What the China does well, as a state, is provide manufacturing and labor at an extremely low cost. What China does poorly, as a state, is high precision manufacturing and high quality material control. Steel produced in foundries in China is very poor, it's why China purchases so much steel for the USA. The high quality OEM parts that are made in China are not entirely made in China. The pieces with exacting material specifications or high tolerance precision fitments are sent to China for assembly, while the less critical parts can be mass-produced and assembled in China.
Factories in China typically have very poor quality control. The OEM items coming out of China typically have a third party overseeing quality, and the production lines have very high reject rates. However, since labor is so very cheap, it can still be cheaper to produce a widget in China at a 50% reject rate than it is to produce the same widget in Japan with a Six Sigma (0.00034%) reject rate.
This has nothing to do with the genetics of the Chinese people or their race. It has everything to do with the way the state and the employers in China operate.
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