&#62; <i>They have better infrastructure than most third world country with cheap labor I can think of.</i><p>That's probably true, but this is a chicken&#38;egg problem, isn't it ... if the westerners would outsource to India / Eastern Europe ... with economic growth their infrastructure will be better and better.<p>And cheap labor is the primary reason ... you take that away and I don't think anything else will matter. Because of its economic growth, costs in China will rise, it's only a matter of time.