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China's manufacturers apparently have reverted to their bad old habits.
[American Thinker] On April 2, American Thinker published a post in which I suggested that China’s culture was responsible for coronavirus. This post riffed off the fact that, on Sunday, Tucker Carlson had highlighted a study from China holding that the bat responsible for COVID-19 was not one of the bats sold and eaten at Wuhan’s infamous wet markets. Instead, the bat was of a type used at two nearby research laboratories.Carlson said – and this seemed correct – that, to the extent the Chinese government had to have signed off on the study, we would be wrong to assume that China deliberately unleashed the virus on the world. (It could have, of course, but that’s not the conclusion one should draw from the study.) The April 2nd post I wrote said that the problem could well be that the Chinese just don’t do things meticulously. Theirs is not a Japanese culture, one in which everything is done with reverence and obsessive attention to detail. Instead, the Chinese have a slapdash approach to just about everything. Part of this is because the communist government’s mercantilist business model is to dump cheap products on the foreign market, undermining local economies. Meanwhile, Chinese tariffs mean that other countries cannot make up their job losses by bringing unique merchandise to the Chinese market. It’s this type of trade depredation that Trump has been fighting against since his first day as president. Another part of this is because, for whatever reason, Chinese manufacturers don’t mind producing garbage or even toxic products, so long as they can make a profit. This may be because they’re going through the same “robber baron” phase that America had in the post-Civil War era. In many ways, Chinese manufacturing is following that old model of worker exploitation and “anything for a profit” production. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-04-03 |
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