By removing the streetcars, widening the streets and changing our zoning to focus on auto centric development, we eliminated the local neighborhood deli, flower shop and tavern.

WHITEHOUSE: Becoming the Change

According to Xinhua, Beijing will "withdraw support for foreign capital in auto manufacturing... because of the need of the healthy development of domestic auto making".

BBC: China 'to withdraw' foreign car investment support

Now they draw a bead on more sophisticated services--engineering, research and development, and designing auto parts, sections of aircraft wings and chips for wireless services.

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Around the world, auto factories are considered an economic development prize not only because the factories themselves usually employ more than 1, 000 workers at good wages, but because they attract auto-component factories to build nearby, generating thousands more jobs.

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America has to create the next generation of customers who cause new human development, such as the Internet, the auto and aeronautical industries, transistors, satellites, Facebook, everything Apple makes, world-class code, etc.

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We continue to grow our research and development investment in these segments, as well as auto OEM, in order to capitalize on the numerous long-term growth initiatives in each of them.

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Volvo Car is looking for partnerships with other auto makers on parts and other vehicle systems, seeking to cut development costs and better compete in the premium small-car market.

WSJ: What's News

It is a smoking gun confirming what many acute observers have long alleged: that protectionism has enabled Japanese auto makers to make super-large profits at home which they then invest in research and development as well as the most advanced production technologies.

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