The Economist explores the trend to manufacture in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia… instead of China in: The problem with Made in China:

It is nice to see this reported properly. The USA manufacturing share of global output has risen, not fallen, as we have stated numerous times: Manufacturing Value Added Economic Data - Manufacturing Jobs Data: USA and China - Global Manufacturing Data by Country. The most fundamental facts of global manufacturing - Global output is increasing. Jobs are decreasing (everywhere, not moving from one place to another - decreasing everywhere). China’s output is growing rapidly. The USA is still by far the largest manufacturer, USA output is growing faster than global output and much slower than China’s output. Japan is the second largest manufacturer with China third, by a fairly large margin though China is growing very rapidly.

Related: Manufacturing Jobs - China’s Manufacturing Economy - America’s Manufacturing Future

Also see: Toyota Chairman Comments on India and Thailand. There are many factors that will determine India’s manufacturing success: building adequate infrastructure, reducing bureaucracy, overall economic resources (to invest)… But the interest in Deming’s and Toyota’s ideas for management will be a large help if they continue to spread in India.