Shanghaiist: Made in China: Australia's Channel 7 vs. Al-Jazeera

nanheyangrouchuan

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:19:43 +0800

When you speak of Chinese sweatshops in Italy popping up, I thought of an interview on "Russia Today" with the Agrarian Party's candidate for Russia's next president. He was discussing the problem of hundreds of thousands of illegal Chinese crossing illegally into Siberia and the Ukraine and of an official policy by Beijing that encourages Chinese peasants to migrate around the world and especially to China's neighbors to set up Chinese colonies. China = Bad

matty

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:17:01 +0800

ken, it's hard to watch these if you don't turn off shanghaiist's auto refresh. that said, i dunno, there's nothing anyone can do to change this state of affairs. after china, after wages rise, africa will be the next place exporting the cheapest stuff possible. after that, who knows. what we do know is that only the poorest will continue making these products unless people decide one day that they want to pay more for their products, or there is a massive "correction" in the global economy, which won't happen any time soon.