Apple have given up the means of production if true they are doomed

[gaelic cowboy]

Yes but I still think Star-wars is better then LotR and that the EU and the UN were founded by Hitler.

Agreement wth?

with the below comments obviously

Asia has a major problem as well, they are over-stretching, they can make cheap stuff but they will always demand on the west to buy it if they keep going like this, the average Chinese doesn't benefit from this huge shift of economic power, the chance on civil unrest is considerate. They (in this case I specifically mean China) can do that only for so long. But it's one bad machine that China, immensely powerful.

I suppose the main thing to take away is yes China could collapse but that would be just as disastrous for western companies as it would for China. If your company has totally relocated production to the east then if china collapsed your suppliers are gone now if any one of your competetiors kept a company or two at home they have all the market not good idea long term