Re: I will not be buying anything from China
quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ice Cream:
By buying stuff that is not made in China you are "hurting" a US or Western European company, not the Chinese. What good is it to boycott, say Nike or Gap, because the Chinese did not let two ships in? <HR>
Well, it does send a message to those companies who are using the Chinese. If enough customers boycott Nike, perhaps Nike will double think their philosophy about outsourcing to the Chinese. If you just stop buying Chinese made goods, however, that isnīt going to do it. You need to follow up with action notifying the company about what you are doing.
I am not advocating this course of action, necessarily, though I do think that the Chinese are fairly antiglobalization in that they wil support the inflow but not the outflow. We have a friend who recently visited the mines in the Congo. In his discussions with the local mgmts. he discovered that the Chinese
were welcome to run and fund the mines. Instead of pumping money in the local infrastruction and hiring people, they brought everything in, including manual labor that turned out (in many cases) to be convicts.
Not the way globalization is supposed to work, IMHO.
She used to be so funny.
