Rock_on_2008 said:
NJ5 said:
Rock_on_2008 said:
hsrob said:
@Rock_on_2008: How dare China and India try and expand their economies, it's a damned disgrace.
@Profcrab: good point about boycotts and ELECTED governments.
Let's say we boycott the Olympics, then what? China loses face and a bit of money on tourism which is not exactly a large part of the GDP anyway and then......... China gets bad press in WESTERN newspapers (Chinese papers will say that the west boycotted because they are afraid of China's strength and are racist). In this regard you are playing right into the governments hand and feeding the propaganda machine and promoting ignorant nationalism. The human rights record will be brought into the spotlight for a few days or weeks and then what, business continues as usual? It doesn't make any sense. |
China are terrible abusers of human rights. China is run by a Communist military dictatorship While the Western world slides into a recession. India and China, economies grow and prosper at the expense of the Western world. For there to be a winner there must always be a loser. Such is life. |
Do you realize that India and China are dependent on the western world to maintain their economy? If there's a recession in USA and Europe, they will also suffer. Your view of the world is very naive. No one forced the world into being global, countries just jumped on the bandwagon because they wanted to. |
Globalisation is crap. Getting cheap Asian labour to produce goods at lower prices forces people in the western world out of work. Unemployment in Western World goes up. People in western world protest against big busineses taking factories off shore to Asian countries. Globalisation has lead to increased profit margins to big business but at the detriment of workers in the western world - being forced onto the unemplyment line. Asian workers are paid less than 10th the labour costs of a worker in the western world. Asian factories use slave workers who are worked 18 hours a day, no sick pay, no annual leave and no superannuation- 7 days a week. |
Western doesn't really include the US when it comes to unemployment. Our unemployment rate, even now when we are said to be entering a recession, is at level that European countries would dream to have. The problem with many of those countries is that they have kept their tarrifs so high to protect the sales of their domesticly produced produces within the country but they can't sell them outside of the EU because they are priced too high and the unions fight tooth and nail to keep things the way they were before.
