Not just plastic toys.

In the race to build a small, affordable, powerful battery, a New York Times report details the challenges.  And, at a factory in Pennsylvania, discovers where the technological advantage currently resides:

International Battery bought machines from China that manufacture the components and has been tweaking them to make them run faster, use fewer materials and produce a better product. Each button on the control panels is labeled in Chinese characters, with English penciled in by hand underneath. Near Mr. Peters’s machine, a cardboard box awaiting unpacking bears hand lettering that says, “Glass Please Carefully.”

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