[AmericanInTokyo]

There will be more of this.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"[China's] factory owners are mostly privileged children of party officials – 90 per cent of China's billionaires are the children of senior cadres – who have a reputation for spending more time in karaoke lounges than boardrooms. They are ill-equipped to act as innovators and entrepreneurs." The Daily Mail 9 February 2008
here

Is this article a PR plant to make the "princelings" look good?

[SpaceBar]

For Sale: One country. Slightly used.

[primeval patriot]

I was an offset platemaker for about ten years prior to the digital revolution.

Mr. Liu is offering wages I made 15 years ago to make plates in commercial print shops.

[KarlInOhio]

Why just buy the rope from the capitalists when you can get a real bargain on the whole rope factory with big tax breaks too.

[RachelFaith]

There are no business owners in China.

China is a Fascist nation.

No one truly owns anything, and any and every deal they make only leverages them against us as we become even more dependent on them.

This is very bad news.

[Smokin' Joe]

We buy their products, they buy our factories.

Is anyone paying attention out there?

I'm still buying American when I can, but will "Made in USA" now mean "for the Chinese factory owner"?

Of course, any boycott of Chinese owned firms in the US will be greeted by "But you are hurting Americans!".

[count-your-change]

People think we pay for imports with money but really we pay with our businesses, our land and whatever else can be traded for money. That includes loyalty to the foreign owner that pays the salary and the taxes.

[nwrep]

I wish we could learn capitalism and entrepreneurship from the Chinese.

[montag813]

About the only major thing that's more expensive in Spartanburg is labor. Liu is looking to offer $12 to $13 an hour there, versus about $2 an hour in Donggua

Wait until he joins the local Traitors of Commerce chapter--they can tell him where to find workers who are closer to the Chinese wage rate.