[InterceptPoint]

Even better if that labor is in a country which has no enviro controls, no safety regulations, no retirement mandates, AND which subsidizes exports and offers tax rebates for exporting--right??

Why is this a problem? The Chinese collect taxes from their people so they can sell you things cheaper. Sounds good to me.

For people who will gladly work for $0.20 an hour the alternative to that job is probably starvatation. When that is the situation then I think safety regulations and retirement benefits are always going to take a back seat. What you have in China is what you had in this country a couple of hundred years ago. Like us, the Chinese will grow out of it. It takes time.

[ninenot]

Odd that you ignore the last 6000 years of Chinese history and declare that "...[the alternative] is starvation." Since when?

The Chinese have lived very nicely without industry, and without starvation, for far longer than has the USA.

Please cite evidence that supports your claim.