How can we as Americans stop slave labour in China?

Question

Should we continue to buy clothes made in China? Or is there anyway to stop this unjustices?

In China it is not uncommon for the army to round up civilians and send them to slave labor camps to work for the rest of their lives. Then if they are not working well, the communist always have them shot just for the fun of it.

So, what can we do to stop this?

Answer 1

I don't mean to be rude but your understand of China is a joke.

I am a Chinese myself and i live in China. We don't have some kind of 'slave labor camps'. The army don't round people up and people work in industries do it out of their own free will and no one is force to work if they don't want to.

Why don't you come to China and see thing for yourself?

Answer 2

I do not understand why the Americans have to take the responsibilities to stop "slave labour" in China, China is on the other side of the planet and I guess Chinese government never put photos about "slave labour camps" on news nor they would let the foreign reporters to go there and have a look. So how do you know there really are "slave labour camps"? Do you know how many slaves are being forced to work out of 1.3 billion of Chinese populaces?

I agree with the other answerers, US citizens can just stop buying products which made in China.

I tell you this joke - my father bought a pair of cool Nike running shoes in Nike Town, London, he was up set when he saw the "Made in China" tag while he got back to Hong Kong, he did think there's no point to buy something made in China from Europe and brought back to China again!

USA is a free country, her citizens can choose what to buy, right? Just avoid making the same mistake as what my father did, check the label of the product before you paid! If people stop buying things from China still can't make you feel it can fully stop the Communist Chinese government, then, I guess, nothing much you can do.

Unless, your new President decided to invade China and rescue the poor Chinese slave labour. But that would cost US government a lot of money, is it worth to care what is happening in China - especially something like "slave labour camps"?

You can throw away all the stuff in your house that have a "made in China" tag (if you have any), then buy some European made / US made products. I personally like European made products a lot, the qualities are a lot finer (materials / designs / craftmanship. etc) , they really are worth to buy (if the high price isn't a concern for you at all).

Answer 3

Well, to be honest, I don't care about the Chinese people in China. I like cheap things and I imagine you do too. Go in your closet and through your stuff and see how much of it is from China. If it is so bad, let them stand up themselves for better wages. Not our problem. If the Chinese don't do it, another country will. Maybe if we had slave labor camps we wouldn't have so much crime. That is not such a bad idea. Send prisoners to pick fruit and farm for 25 cents an hour.

The world needs ditch diggers too.

Answer 4

What are you talking approximately? inspite of the dismal wages maximum chinese language workers obtain from production facility jobs that have been outsourced to them, those jobs pay approximately 100x greater advantageous than the different job in China. The chinese language people have in no way had greater advantageous salaries interior the historical past of their u . s .. And the international monetary marketplace is a unfastened, capitalist marketplace. There are no longer any tests and balances. Why might a private corporation shop a production facility in u . s . and be compelled to pay workers 20x what they might would desire to in China or India? that's how the unfastened marketplace works. So rather of attempting to get those crappy production facility jobs decrease back, u . s . could be focusing on greater advantageous education so we are able to get jobs that would no longer be outsourced.

Answer 5

The term "Free Trade" has been corrupted. It should mean trade by mutual consent and to mutual benefit which presupposes both sides of the trade are politically free.

The term slave is broad one; most Chinese people are not in the same situation as say the pre-revolution ***** cotton workers in America - whips etc, but some are. The communist regime does have hard labour camps for political and religious prisoners - mining and processing raw materials etc.

"You cannot trade with a slave without benefiting his master."

Anyone who buys a product of slavery is financially benefiting from the misery of others...

Answer 6

Vote for a President who will impose a high tariff on imports.
Make it common knowledge what goes on in China with it being Communist and enforcement of slave labor.
Bring it to peoples attention how child slave labor is among the most used in labor camps and how the Chinese children are exploited and abused so we can save a buck.
Did you know that Walmart has made alot of Americans jobs move to China?
They have by telling the business owners that they want to continue doing business with them but only if they can make more profit.
And the only way to be more profitable they tell them is if you move your business over seas where you will be able to operate your business at a fraction of what it costs you to operate here.
So that is why Walmart is able to keep their prices down so you the consumer can save big.
They buy in bulk for pennys on the dollar,products made in China by slave labor so the consumer will be a repeat customer while the money keeps rolling in for Walmart and the business owner operating out of China.
Then the money we spend on buying everything over seas is causing America's economy to become weaker while their economy grows stronger until eventually the American dollar will lose it's value to the yen and the uro.
When that happens we will be sitting ducks without a leg to stand on.
And America will no longer be what our forefathers fought so hard for.
Nothing will ever completly end slave labor in China but we can at least put a dent in it.

Answer 7

We can't always change other countries and multinational companies like we'd like to. If you want to affect change, not buying Chinese products is a start. Making a political point of it, though is a MUCH better idea. Try to get it as a campaign issue in the presidential election, and hopefully it'll be a foreign policy priority. That's my opinion of the best way to affect change, but we can't depend on it necessarily.

Answer 8

Stop buying imports from China and buy USA only. More countries do this besides China. Just buy American and your conscience should be clear. They have no human rights so why would we want their crap anyway? Do not buy from dollar stores they are big culprits, but more importantly write your reps and tell them to minimize trade with such countries.

Answer 9

stop buying goods made in china. That would mean no shopping in well hell no shopping at all.

Answer 10

A. When I move to china, then I'll start giving a ratsass about what goes on there. If it isn't happening herein the US, it might as well be happening on the moon.

B. If our government was as pro-active as China's is, we wouldn't have so many people sitting on their asses collecting welfare.