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2007-08-24 China-Japan-Koreas

China declares 'war' on tainted products

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Posted by gorb 2007-08-24 06:41|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Back in the 50's, 'Made in Japan' meant cheap unreliable products. The Japanese government set out to change that. First a ministry was established to insure goods sold abroad would meet strict specification in quality. It took about ten years to work it all out. We can see the effect in the market place. It first of all takes honest real commitment upon those in power to make it happen. We'll see.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-08-24 11:52|| 2007-08-24 11:52|| Front Page Top

#2 the American consumer should make it happen.

Posted by Heriberto Ulusomble6667 2007-08-24 12:06|| 2007-08-24 12:06|| Front Page Top

#3 "I love the smell of napalm in the morning!"

"Uh, sir, that's your blanket or is it the dog biscuits?!"

Posted by Skunky Ebbinesing8410 2007-08-24 12:15|| 2007-08-24 12:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Cheap and unreliable I remember. Life threatening? Not so much.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-08-24 12:36|| 2007-08-24 12:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm starting to think we are not dealing with a case of "Let's make crap for the export market", but simply everyday business in China.

For all it's modernisation, China is still feudal, imperial China with the Party taking the place of the emperor. There is no OSHA or Underwriters Laboratories, the country is heavily polluted, and as they say "the mountains are high and the emperor is far away". I suspect toxic food and goods are everyday items of commerce. I pity the Chinese.

Posted by SteveS 2007-08-24 14:58|| 2007-08-24 14:58|| Front Page Top

#6 "Tainted products--- Yep, Taint food, drugs or any exports from here that are worthashit"

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-08-24 15:14|| 2007-08-24 15:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I first read it as: China declares war 'with' tainted products

Posted by ed 2007-08-24 18:02|| 2007-08-24 18:02|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm starting to think we are not dealing with a case of "Let's make crap for the export market", but simply everyday business in China.

And you'd be thinking right. Notice how it is only the threat of profit loss that is driving this crackdown and not any compromise of actual reputation. Being known for high quality has absolutely nothing to do with this. We are the recipients of goods from a culture centered upon minimal or marginal product quality, not true competition involving premium workmanship. Such an expensive notion is almost entirely foreign to the typical Chinese profit motive. It goes a long way towards explaining China's institutionalized theft of intellectual property, constant copyright violations and routine knocking off of counterfeit products.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-24 21:09|| 2007-08-24 21:09|| Front Page Top

#9 China declares war 'with' tainted products

Far closer to the truth.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-24 21:11|| 2007-08-24 21:11|| Front Page Top

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