Look if China takes back Taiwan then there wont be any safe toys left , and Santa wont have that!
NOW what you got to say... Cant diss Santa, or you will get coal or leadbased China toys for Christmas!
2good is gonna love you! lol your another "master debator"..
BTW I dont disagree with anything youve said , I just play Devils advocate alot to spark the convo.
But being as your over there, what are they gonna do when we start recalling all they products?
I have thot for a long time that we rely too heavily on China, but I think its important to be friendly with them, its a cool country...Once you get past the Gov. Like this one!
Lol don't worry I don't mind if you do disagree, that's what makes for an interesting discussion. I just hope no-one takes what I say out of context and gets their nose out of joint.
Interesting question, to an extent that is already happening, and they're really worried about it; hence the "stiff penalties". They're not even allowing their cronies to get away with producing sub-standard products for export now as it's just too risky, (of course, none of them will get penalised).
It's a complex issue in such an overpopulated and diverse country such as this: the difference between the affluent east coast, (where I am), and the impoverished rural interior is enormous. the difference between rich and poor in the city is enormous too. Let's just say cats with money here really have shitloads.
For example, my own situation: I'm a teacher and my wage is nearly three times what the average Chinese teacher gets, (which is not a bad wage either), wifey and I spend less than half that and live very comfortably, (although we don't have a car but that's not as big a hassle as it is back home). Anyway what I get is now considered medium level i.e not low but not so high that I could say I'm well off, (although I'm certainly not complaining), at all. Pricks in business or high end jobs are earning ridiculous amounts. the amount of luxury cars, (BMW, Mercedes, Audis are everywhere, Lexus etc), I see around here is ridiculous. These cars cost the same here as they do overseas; I'm talking like 1/2 to a full million chinese RMB cars, (that's more than ten times my annual wage), and they're everywhere!
So the Gov, (who are certainly fucked up, (don't get me wrong)), are trying to find some sort of balance between keeping wages low enough to not scare off foreign investment, whilst trying to keep inflation within reasonable limits; but, with rising food prices the poor farmers, (these guys really are poor, a good wage for a farmer on his own land is the equivalent of about $80 - 100USD a month), are getting more cash so they don't want them to lose that; meanwhile they are trying to direct devolpment towards higher end skills and knowledge based rather than just cheap labour which is what sparked their current economic prosperity in the first place; of course, that means better education for a lot of these poor bastards working in factories too; that's all without taking into account their massive pollution, population control, civil unrest (really), and outside political pressures etc etc etc.
They are certainly arseholes but I do think they want their country to prosper and develop, at least to the extent it's beneficial to them. I wouldn't want to be running this shit nfw.
Mate, I think we're all, (I'm Australian BTW), gonna be relying on this country more and more; once they get their game on they gonna be unfuckwithable, for real.