While visiting my friends at the EastWind Precision Engineering booth at the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Equipment Show at the New Shanghai Intenational Exhibition Hall (27 October – 29 October 2009) I made a couple observations: the overwhelming majority of buyers were Chinese; the Chinese buyers spent most of the time in the Western pavilion stroking the latest CNC equipment, mostly German and Swiss, all shiny stainless steel with seamless computer displays. The Chinese-makers’ side of the show saw mostly equipment out of the Charlie Chaplin movie Modern Times, great hulking beasts bristling with dials and gauges. Westerners were not swarming all over Chinese vendors to create joint ventures, and Chinese buyers weren’t so interested in the Chinese stuff. Instead, the smart money is on the future. A sure bet.