Actually, I had software engineers, working for me when I was a manager for a major travel company out of our offices in Shenzhen, China… I would say that the split between good and bad was pretty close to what it’s here in the United States. But overall, I found them to be excellent engineers, and extremely competent people. It’s the ones that actively pirate libraries and software from US companies and work for these small one off vendors that are the problem there.. While they are competent, they have no concept of intellectual property because of communist China.

They are other deeper problems in China… Everything built there is of a very shallow depth of quality with respect to Construction… Sidewalks buckle within one or two years of being placed and you know when you are near a sewer versus a drainage line because you can smell it.. but given that are they are where were in the United States 100 years ago with respect to societal development, but with modern technology, I’m honestly not terribly surprised.. also the locals who work in the shops do not like westerners very much..