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Originally Posted by jpachard
Yes, and they steal any and every bit of IP they can in order to get ahead. They have ZERO respect for someone else's ideas or products. I worked at a place where we decided to have some components made there, when we went to visit the factory it was found out that they were making over runs of our product and selling it to whomever would buy it. Needless to say, we stopped having our stuff made overseas.
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Yeah, the Chinese notion of ethics is certainly skewed from ours, but they're embracing a facet of capitalism: greed. It's the same greed that may have motivated your company to have components made overseas.
I go out of my way sometimes to not buy Chinese products. I refuse to buy tools from Harbor Freight. I usually pay a premium to get tools made in America, Japan, or Europe. Call me irrational or perhaps absurdly patriotic.
That said, I believe China is like the United States of 60 years ago. There is an abundance of inexpensive labor. Folks want to buy nice homes and a car. They want fashion and music. Putting aside the political scenery, why shouldn't the Chinese population be able to prosper and become competitive in the world? What entitles us to success and cheap consumer goods, but not them? And yes, their culture and political system is in some ways backwards to ours, but look at the crooks on Wall St. Look at our politicians. Are we a model of excellence?
Let's begin a trade war. Let's take on the Chinese. We can find someone else to loan us the money to begin a war. China will invest their cash
surplus into building their nation, investing in other countries, and buying resources. I don't like it, but we walked into this with open eyes.