I don't understand why we don't put a moratorium on China - period. This is an oppressive nation, that has no real motivation to democratize. They are poor stewards of their environment (3 Gorges Dam, massive coal fired electrical plants). They can't control the quality of food/feed exports, which we are often finding contaminated with all sorts of junk (melamine to insecticides). And 95% of the population is not benefitting from the supposed economic boom - just the privileged upper and middle class. And the Chinese government is playing a disruptive role in pushing Darfur to stop its genocide.
The consumer nations, like the US and Japan, won't hold China to the same standards as it would say... Iran, Venezuela, or even Burma. Yet we cut them slack because they manufacture all the pretty gadgets we love.
Exactly. if the manufacturers had done their homework all our gadgets would be made in the good old USA or Japan. As it stands, though,there's not a whole lot we can do without driving up prices, and we all know how much the Wal-Mart shoppers hate that...
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umijin @ Jun 4th 2007 11:51AM
I don't understand why we don't put a moratorium on China - period. This is an oppressive nation, that has no real motivation to democratize. They are poor stewards of their environment (3 Gorges Dam, massive coal fired electrical plants). They can't control the quality of food/feed exports, which we are often finding contaminated with all sorts of junk (melamine to insecticides). And 95% of the population is not benefitting from the supposed economic boom - just the privileged upper and middle class. And the Chinese government is playing a disruptive role in pushing Darfur to stop its genocide.
The consumer nations, like the US and Japan, won't hold China to the same standards as it would say... Iran, Venezuela, or even Burma. Yet we cut them slack because they manufacture all the pretty gadgets we love.
Pathetic.
Jamar @ Jun 4th 2007 12:28PM
Exactly. if the manufacturers had done their homework all our gadgets would be made in the good old USA or Japan. As it stands, though,there's not a whole lot we can do without driving up prices, and we all know how much the Wal-Mart shoppers hate that...