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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| China's place in the post-COVID-19 new world order |
| 2020-04-04 |
| Bookworm room via Instapundit ...When China first started sending America cheap things, I assumed, and I bet a lot of other people did, that China would follow the Japanese trajectory. It would begin with paper umbrellas and cheap toys and then, as it got the hang of the whole manufacturing thing, it would gradually move to the high-end products. After all, the Chinese were Asians, too, and we were assured that they could be as meticulous as the Japanese or the South Koreans. What the Japanese and South Koreans could have told us, though, was that China is a very different culture. It’s neither clean nor orderly. The communist government manages it with an iron fist studded with spikes and bolts. There’s nothing subtle about China. China also isn’t a country with capitalism in the factory awkwardly paired with communism in the government. It’s a mercantile system with communism in the government. It sees the world as a place in which to dump its goods, without taking in other products in exchange. Because there is no free market exchange, China’s goal has always been simply to undercut others. It has no desire to be the best in a free market. ...Significantly, Chinese carelessness doesn’t start with products headed outside the borders. Do you remember the 2008 milk scandal in China? The Chinese were putting melamine in milk to give it the appearance of more protein. Melamine is the same substance that the Chinese put in the pet food that killed America’s cats and dogs: Of an estimated 300,000 victims in China,[1] six babies died from kidney stones and other kidney damage and an estimated 54,000 babies were hospitalized. ...China is in many ways a magnificent country, but it’s also a careless and dirty country that has very limited respect for individual well-being and that has a totalitarian government that is loath to admit fault. It was always going to be the perfect vector for the next pandemic. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Sadly B, there are a lot of people in positions of power and influence who will enable that because they are for sale. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2020-04-04 12:22 |
#1  China’s goal has always been simply to undercut others. It has no desire to be the best in a free market.They copied our box store business model? Who knew ? Prediction: After this pandemic unpleasantness is concluded, Trump, Gaia, and a changing climate will be blamed. All will be forgiven and business with China will quickly resume. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-04-04 08:39 |