‘Lost in Translation’ by robby_rob
February 20, 2009 by sovereignjohn
The U.S. China Connection
Chinese businessmen are often asked why they don’t pay higher wages to their workers and give them better working conditions. They have a good answer. U.S. Corporations demand ever lower prices. If you like lead in your toys, shop the store that demands it, Wal*Mart, always lowering standards…always.
Why do we continue to fund our own demise?
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The multi-purposed tangling of Communist China & Capitalist Democratic America is fascinating. Some aspects of this inter-dependence appear to be a symbiotic relationship which will force China to adopt more capitalist ( “cum” democratic) ways.
This has happened in the reform of their banking system to be more in step with the western banks. But on the whole, the “inscrutable Chinese” are far more adept in dealing with the “heavy handed” “gun-toting” Americans.
Hell, China came back from Britain’s attempt to flood (ergo weaken) China with opium, and re-bounded from Mao’s rough “reformations”.
China has complained to the U.S. not to weaken our dollar because they bought so many t-bills (as do many countries).
But, on the whole, America is not a nation of product, but that of consumerism. If America falls, China will pull through. Millions of Chinese can be motivated in whatever ways their government devises.
How about making American products and services attractive to the world? Bring production back to America?
Can we “defeat Communism” by “capitalist greed” alone? Even the Soviet Union needed more than capitalism, it took an essentially powerful, elitist class’ deprivation of the Soviet masses to spark the people’s overthrow of 70 years of Communist rule.
Chinese rule, whether emperors or communist officials is very strong, and seldom questioned. The Chinese government is brilliant at information control, and ultimately brute force ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989) when they feel it necessary. They counter bootlegs of un-cut American media with official state-sanctioned (edited) showings (see: Desperate Housewives). They do it all too well.
How complicit does America want to be in all that? How much do we want to weaken our own productivity by dependence on foreign goods?
Great comment. Thanks ogmiz