Like all things Communist, it’s built on Fabrication and thus, not built to last.
Having children for whom I buy toys I wonder how chinese couples like ‘Melissa and Doug’ can maintain vigilance over all their myriad products.
No way! This can’t be true! I thought China only used the BEST in slave labor.
There’s a high-end speaker manufacturer in Eastern Canada that off-shored the production of their speaker cabinets to China. After 16 months, they cancelled the contract and resumed making the cabinets here. They also replaced the Chinese made cabinets.
I’m sure the book is interesting, but this has been known for longer than he’s been working in China, and anyone who believed differently is delusional.
American production is still generally of better quality, but that also has been eroding with the hiring of lower paid immigrant workers in many areas.
Personally, I prefer to pay a higher price for a product of superior quality, but I seem to be in the distinct minority in this country.
All Hail the Mighty Profit!
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As a consumer I deal with several Chinese companies and they are very libertarian in their business practices.
They are totally unrestrained by any moral values, it is purely about profit, if they have to stop a practice because it is destroying them, they will, if they can lie and continue it, they will, they have no internal honor or dignity that influences their business operating.
Luckily for me some American based forums have a huge influence on some of these businesses, but what they try to get away with is amazing, as is the learning process for the new ones as they have to adapt to customer back lash and threats of losing credibility.
Pfff. This was old news 2 decades ago. Even Chinese businesses do not trust Chinese goods and manufacturing and construction.
As you think about that, recall that in ancient times, the Romans and others would catapult disease-riddled corpses over the walls of cities they besieged to sicken and kill the enemy. The Chinese know that history even if we obviously have forgotten it. Get my drift there?
On a recent visit to China, a friend spotted this ad in a Beijing newspaper. He sent me the photo with a translation of the ad copy.
Yes, you can now join the millions of happy and prosperous Chinese citizens taking advantage of the growing numbers of American and Western multinational corporations “outsourcing” their production to the hard-working and industrious people of China. This outsourcing has now spread to their food supplies and ingestible items. Since these firms pay us for gross weight – and this new weight will be pretty gross – and the stupid American government only spot-checks imported items in these categories (they just got lucky on the anti-freeze thing), it has opened an entirely new opportunity which our beloved Chairman is offering to any Chinese citizen willing to do a little of what the foolish Americans call “grunt work.”
Installing one of these state-of-the-art food additive production facilities behind YOUR hovel is as simple as clipping the coupon below and sending it to the address shown. Your production plant will be shipped to you in 4 to 6 weeks. Supplies are limited so don’t fart around. ACT NOW!!
These silly Americans have an expression we have “borrowed” and modified to describe this new and exciting venture: “Don’t give me any s**t.”
Our motto will be “We won’t GIVE you any s**t. But we’ll SELL it to you fools at a really great price.”
Better yet, we convince them to COME HERE to pick it up and save us the shipping costs.
AND LOOK FOR A NEW DROP-DEAD MONEY-MAKER COMING SOON. SOYLENT YELLOW PROMISES TO BE BIG!!
AND YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED TO KNOW THAT THE “CHERY” PERSONAL VEHICLE TO BE IMPORTED BY CHRYSLER IS SIMPLY A HORIZONTALLY MODIFIED VARIATION OF THE VERTICAL UNIT SHOWN ABOVE. WE SIMPLY SLAP AN ENGINE AND SOME WHEELS ON THAT PUPPY AND OFF SHE GOES! AMERICA’S VAST ILLEGAL POPULATION OUGHT TO SNAP THEM UP LIKE TACOS.
Can anyone recommend a more recent book on this subject?
Thanks for posting this.
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