It just gets more and more troubling dealing with Chinese made goods when shopping, not only because the good people of that Country are earning way less than they should BUT;
-They artificially keep their dollar down to reduce costs, it means we get cheaper products that undercut local manufacturers, kinda sounds like Blockbuster undercutting ever other video retailer until they're all gone and then jacking the prices up to where they were before.
-CRAPPY product quality ...within reason the old adage "you get what you pay for" holds true, but North Americans LOVE cheap product and have no problem replacing the product every few year when they could have bought a quality piece that would last them for decades.
-They underpay their employees to a point where they work long hours and never get ahead, they still live in poverty. The good news is that the people are starting to fight back and demand more competitive wages ... which will raise prices, and allow other manufacturer to be more competitive .....so it probably won't be happening any time soon.
-They are the world largest holder of American debt .... imagine if they called it in!
-They are a communist society, and have treated the Buddhist's in Tibet horribly .... just search online!
NEWs post courtesy of the New York Times
BEIJING — "In a case that has prompted a number of appeals from the White House, a Chinese court on Friday upheld the conviction of an American oil geologist sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of industrial espionage.
The geologist, Xue Feng, a naturalized American citizen born in China, was convicted in July of violating the country’s vague state secrets laws after he obtained an oil industry database for his employer, IHS Energy, a consulting company in Colorado.
His lawyers say the information was classified as secret only after he bought it. Given the government’s control of domestic petroleum production, several Western industry experts have questioned whether possessing such data could have any impact on China’s security."
Doesn't that sound odd?? What's worse is a Chinese court of law upheld the conviction ... talk about wrongly convicted.
-How about the fact that the Government of Canada found out there website security had been breached from a location in China .....courtesy of the Calgary Herald
"""The Treasury Board of Canada confirmed Wednesday night that the department had suffered "an unauthorized attempt to access its networks," after a CBC report said a cyberattack originating in China had compromised the e-mails of top-ranking government officials.
The attack, believed to have started more than a month ago, forced both the Treasury Board and Finance Department to limit employee access to the Internet at both departments while investigators attempt to ascertain the breadth of the hackers' intrusion.
Jay Denney, a spokesman for Treasury Board president Stockwell Day, said in an e-mail late Wednesday that "officials responsible for security have taken appropriate action in response to the threat."
In its report, CBC termed the attack "unprecedented" in that hackers hijacked the "online identities" of top bureaucrats and then sent documents infected with a virus to employees throughout the departments.
The hackers are believed to have accessed classified information."""
Supposedly they were looking at whether the Canadian government was discussing the valuation of the Yuan(China's currency).
-Something that really pisses me off is that my hope the seal hunt would finally end ..... NOPE, China has "opened the doors" to Canadian seal product! ....I could also bring up the amount of industrial espionage that China is responsible for, but I think we knew they we the leaders in that area.
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