COO doesn't mean too much anymore. What Americans think of as developing and sometimes backward nations are now quality producers. It ain't the 1960s anymore. Japan grew up, S. Korea is capable, Thailand was the biggest hard drive producer in all you PCs and Laptops before China got into it and manufactures Triumph motorcycles and great oil filters, and look at Vietnam. Who'd have thought we'd be buying quality tires and oil filters from Vietnam and they'd be hosting our navy for port calls?