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Kai Master said:
I'm not xenophobic but I think China is a threat to the developped countries as they steal our technologies (outsourcing, spies) and pirate are products. The EU lost $200 billion trading with China in 2006, I think the EU and even the US are stupid not to defend their economies against a country that steal and pirate everything. We're loosing millions of jobs to the profit of China that use kids to manufacture products at 1/10th our cost. Nintendo should avoid making business with China, we, developped country, have to wait a few decades that China develops at our standards before making business with it. All that said I have chinese friends. |
There are still people that think this way? Ok. Lets see. The chinese propably want better living, and the western companies rush China with their production. Capitalist wants money, so they manufacture products where it's cheap and sell them where they get most profit out of the products. So, the threat isn't China, it's the capitalist. Propably governments would like to do something about importing from China (in EU there are big toll fees for some products), but the capitalist says, that protectionism doesn't take you anywhere, or else... The governments don't have much choice but allow importing. And China doesn't need to steal any tech from others, since everyone is pushing their tech to China. And China wont develop to the western standards, unless you make trade with it. Besides, without China financing US economy by loans, there would be thing a bit diffent, than what it is at the moment. Since it's the people who shoot themselves to leg by buying cheap chinese products, it's always fun to cry why no one does anything, when you support something you want to get rid of. And i don't like it either, that jobs run to China or India. |
Apparently, you can't delete comment boxes in firefox :(
Anyhow, companies are putting assembly and labor intensive jobs in China. The tech that goes to China are generally last gen, because it's not as valuable and can lower manufacturing costs. Corporations (unless they are Chinese company) are very adament about keeping leading edge IP out of China because of the piracy issue (how many 65nm semiconductor plants are in China? None). China is catching up fast, but is still quite behind the leading edge, so "stealing" tech (one man's stealing is another man's sharing without consent) is very much real.
This is also the real reason why they don't want western standards, so that they don't have to steal if they are the source. They don't want reliance on foreign tech, so they make their own or take it so it becomes theirs.
btw, I am Chinese.
