Should we buy goods from China?

Question

After watching a program on right now, more 4 (channel4) digi box program, I am horrified at the conditions that people there have to work under. I will be looking at where things are made and avioding Chiniese made goods. might help uk manufacturing a bit to. If you think you are badly treated and ripped off by your employer and government "you aint seen nothing compared to this".

And did you know Yahoo gives China details of emails sent by China's people that are of interest to the authorities there.
One guy got ten years in prison for an email the Commies did'nt like.

Answer 1

I have struggled with this subject since the communist crackdown in Tienanmen Square in June 1989. For years I refused to buy anything from China. But mine was a lone, powerless voice among countless hundreds of millions who were following another ethic entirely: $.
The claim is that "engaging" the Chinese will eventually change Chinese society. But it just so happens that the people who like this political idea are also of the same social and political ilk who make huge profits by dealing with the Chinese in business arrangements. I am suspicious, to say the least.
There is one very good thing about the market Communism of the Chinese state. China is getting more involved in the world, and this will result in less poverty and less risk of violent confrontation with other civilizations (such as "the West").
Now it is really rather silly to refuse to buy Chinese products. There is no strong political movement to boycott Chinese products. Anyway, I am much more concerned with gross human rights violations in China than with the conditions Chinese factory workers have to endure. Nearly every shoe and every sock worn by Americans is the product of some kind of slave or slave-ish labor. The world is in a sad state, and not buying a pair of socks is unlikely to save it in even the remotest way. Unfortunate, but true.

Answer 2

It is a problem, the Chinese have a terrible record on "human rights" The fact is almost everything on the shelves these days is "Made in China". I suppose if the whole Nation boycotted the goods then the importers would have to look elsewhere. This course of action would not help the Chinese however. This is what is known as globalisation, where the major corporations purchase at the lowest price to "maximise" profits, regardless of any human rights issues,

Answer 3

I agree, but how does one avoid it? Just about everything these days seems to be made in China, even products one thinks are made elsewhere. People will always go for the cheapest option, and so a more expensive product made elsewhere will just stay on the shelves. Its called the capitalist market economy. In a few years those workers will be us as it will be the only way that we will be able to compete with the far eastern super economies.

Answer 4

Yes we should. We are in an open global market. Europe may want us not to but if we do not there will be a lot of hunger in China. I asked 10 British companies to quote for manufacture of an item. I asked 10 China factories. Every one from China was less than half the price of the UK. What is wrong with us not them?

Answer 5

For the foreigners, this is to "teach off" to their pals and relatives back abode that they offered the genuine stuff. besides, this is low value and that they are able to't extremely tell the version back of their very own united states of america. For the community chinese language, considering that they are able to't have the money for the genuine element, they are going to purchase a pretend one. Having a pretend LV or Dior is extra useful than none. Even the Ah Yi is wearing a extensive LV bag!!

Answer 6

WHY NO! the condition of the people in China is not as good as people here but the future is China. give it another 20 years, they will role earth!

Answer 7

Thanks to the EPA, and other environmental watchdog groups, and government agencies, labor unions, and employee rights activists, we, no longer have the infrastructure to rapidly increase the productions of good in our country. factories are gone, skills are gone, and hardworkers are not hard workers as we had in the past. Keep buying the stuff from China. Its their turn to have three eyed fish in the rivers, and birds falling from the sky.

Answer 8

many of the goods and services we consume are provided to us from countries that have working conditions we would consider less than ideal. what are you gonna do? To get cheap goods corners have to be cut at someones expense and its usually not the people that run the comany that pay.

Answer 9

Do we have a choice?

Nearly everything is made there.

Including the PCBs that sit inside the computer you are using to view this website....

Answer 10

Not buying stuff from there won't help the situation unfortunately. They'll simply find other ways to torture their peaple. Did you see the one about animal fur? (its not just the people that suffer)