Does buying things from China support Communism?

Question

Since China is currently being controlled by Communism, does buying things that are "Made in China", end up supporting communism? If you look at the majority of things that we buy, they say "Made in China", and our reliance upon them can't be good since the more we buy those items the more support we give to communism. And being American or any other democracy, wouldn't that be counter productive since we are giving support to the "Enemy"?

Answer 1

All of you are wrong in the most egregious fashion.

I'm a transplanted ex pat from the USA living in the central part of China. What most people know about China would fit in a thimble, what most people THINK they know would fit in a barrel.

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Dictatorial totalitarian one party rule:
First, China is NOT COMMUNIST, communism and capitalism are polar opposites, therefore that label is misleading and wrong. Even cold warriors like Henry Kissinger agree to that.

China is communist in name only, even my students’ laugh at the very mention of China being communist. The only way I can describe their system is to say it is one that is in transition from communism to democracy. As of now non party members can hold positions as high as mayor. Albeit that is rare, nevertheless only a few years ago that would have been unheard of.

There is an election system in place, but it is very low key and only goes up to the province level where party members are elected by other party members to represent the people in Beijing. The elections are held at different times for each province. There is no such thing as national elections in China. All of that can be found at http://www.china.org.cn.

Is China totalitarian? We often hear of it referred to as such. The definition, every aspect of life is under strict state control, often through coercive measures. Since individuals are free to travel, open a business, quit their job, find new employment, and pretty much do everything we Americans are accustomed too, then the definition is inaccurate.

What about dictatorial rule? The definition doesn’t fit since President Hu is elected by their legislative body, he must answer to them as well.

The one party rule system however is firmly in place and will be here for a long time. There are other parties but they are controlled by the Communist Party. However, looking at it in a different way, the party consists of hard liners to capitalists. The one thing I see, it’s working for China.

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Therefore what you are doing when you buy Chinese products is help China become what we want it to be.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 2

well if you did not buy stuff from china there would not be much stuff yet to buy. When wal marts first started becoming popular, there motto was that they only sold american made products. they soon found out there are not enough american made products to fill a store. Most of the stuff in china is made in swet shops and young children are made to work long hours with very little pay. If we stopped buying their stuff, they would have to stop making it....
But on a good note.. They do now how to cook. Nothing better then a good chinese buffet. Actually ate there last night... Not to get off the subject. But I am seeing more and more mexican families eating chinese buffets. More so then american buffets. I wonder why?

Answer 3

Actually it does not. China has become a huge economic power in the world today. Granted they are viewed as a belligerent at times they still produce many products we rely on such a electrical and electronic items that we COULD make our selves but doing so would make many consumer products cost prohibitive. And the benifit from us likewise. Our relationship with china isn't strictly political, but none of the news networks really put emphasis on these things.

Answer 4

I could care less what name you call it . Having people work to produce goods if they are not compensated properly amounts to theft under capitalism or communism .

The exploited workers of this world have much to fear from both types of systems because neither of them are ending poverty . By the way china has health care and it must be pretty good if they have 1.3 billion people and a growing population .

Answer 5

Sadly, we're all supporting it, like it or not. I own a sizable garage and also distribute parts. Just yesterday, I received some Motor-craft parts (Ford), stamped 'made in Mexico'. I think that 60%, possibly even more of the parts that I carry, are made in China. There's no way around it anymore.

Answer 6

well yeah. The Chinese have conditioned American consumer to pass up American made products for Chinese made, very clever indeed. China own large chunks of American debt, so they pretty much own you all anyways. One must question why American wal-mart cannot have a union, yet in China all wal-mart employees are unionized. That is part of the conditioning, its so subtle one may not notice it.

Answer 7

What is more disturbing is that not only does it support Communism (although I don't necessarily think of the Chinese as the "enemy"), it is more disturbing that we are so willing to ship our manufacturing base and jobs overseas.

Answer 8

We are building up China's millitary with each purchase of something made in China. Scary!

Answer 9

I guess not, though it would be supporting Communism if we bought Cigars from Cuba.

WTF?

Clinton sucks, he sold our country to China and sold out our supposed morals. Granted I never cared for the trade embargo, but it is disgusting to me that we've granted such wonderful trade status to China (especially considering what its done to them) while banning trade from other Commies.

Answer 10

Answer: Perhaps...Then again it does promote capitalism and work on the side as it were to promote change. But in the here and now I believe that you are correct.