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Post by jeffolie on Jul 4, 2007 11:00:51 GMT -6
www1.whdh.com/news/articles/world/BO56477/One-fifth of China's domestic products flunk quality and safety standards BEIJING -- Nearly one-fifth of products made in China for domestic consumption failed quality and safety standards, the government said, while a state-run newspaper on Wednesday stressed the need to raise quality guidelines to meet international levels. Winds of Change: An Inconvenient Truth As you may have heard by now, in 2007, China is set to surpass the US in the emission of greenhouse gases. This has many implications for the concept of environmentalism, and for the geopolitical landscape. By 2012, China's emissions will be a clear 20% higher than the US, which is a delta too large to ignore. futurist.typepad.com/my_weblog/"In the slavery scandal, authorities say nearly 1,000 children and adults were abducted and forced to work in brick kilns. Operators beat and starved workers, often with local government protection." my.earthlink.net/article/bus?guid=20070629/468483c0_3ca6_1552620070629160865164Prices will rise when the RED Chineese have to pay their slaves. There is no free market in slaves in RED China is there?
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Post by blueneck on Jul 4, 2007 11:17:25 GMT -6
Something that I completely fail to understand is how in the world we have let communist china rise both economically and militarily to challenge us.
With all of the negatives of china - the forced abortions, religious persecution, slave and child labor we stand idly by and allow them to become so intertwined in our economy. Or the fact that Hu Jintao is #4 on the State Dept's list of most brutal dicatators.
The pollution, poison, counterfeit, poor quality products and currency manipulation alone should be enough to give one pause. Some would say that the poison and contaminated food and health products borders on state sponsored terrorism.
Does this really sound like the kind of country we should be doing ANY business with??
And the shear and utter hypocrisy of the right in their defense of red china (yes "red" china - my 2006 almanac lists their system of gov't as a communist dictatorship) in light of all the jingoistic posturing against totalitarian regimes, and the outcry against abortion and religious persecution.
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Post by jeffolie on Jul 4, 2007 12:44:40 GMT -6
It is not just the right that turns a blind eye to RED China, so does the left and the press.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Jul 4, 2007 20:26:40 GMT -6
Nearly every large retailer and most U.S. owned Corporate multinationals turn a blind eye. An overwhelming majority of profits from sale of Chinese products goes out of the country, especially to U.S. investors.
It's simply not in the best interests of American investors and retailers (like Wal-Mart) to utter a peep about any kind of worker abuse.
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