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SavannahLion:
I wish it was as simple as one could so easily make such a statement. The problem isn't China, per se, the problem is us. Face it, we're a Wal*Mart nation. We want our products to be as cheap as possible, but we're not always willing to pay the price for quality or safety. When you pay $2 for a Chinese toy that would normally have cost $8 from a U.S. manufacturer, what would you expect in terms of safety and quality? Ensuring safety or quality costs money, it's not intrinsic of any product. It has to be designed right from the get go and followed through right to the very end. Yet Americans expect products to always be safe and expect to pay next to nothing for it.

Our perception of reality is skewed. You really think all those computers get "recycled" in the U.S.? They generally get shipped to countries like China. Ships go to die in Bangladesh. We've been blissfully crapping on those countries for years. Expect a little payback.

By the way, after that $2 toy breaks, it might find its way to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Back to the topic at hand.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "leaps and bounds."  ??? This just seems like another one of China's programs to gain independence from foreign manufacturers. They do this all the time. Cars, cell phones, software, all sorts of stuff. They're like this little island of pseudo-independent researchers... when they're honest. ::)

tommy:

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on December 22, 2007, 07:58:19 am ---
--- Quote from: tommy on December 22, 2007, 06:36:21 am ---Now all they need to do is stop shipping us harmful products.

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all you have to do is stop buying them  ;)

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It's just like him to make a comment like that and then run away. Maybe he should stick to collecting N64 stuff and not talk about these sorts of things.

ChadTower:

I was talking with a friend from China about this a couple of weeks back.  From his point of view (he has family working in these types of plants), the problem isn't their manufacturing, the problem is that the US companies aren't communicating US standard requirements for materials.  China doesn't have the same laws and standards that we do and when the contracts aren't specific, Chinese standard materials are used.  The problems come in when those Chinese standards don't match US standards.

tommy:
That may be true in part, but they are hurting their own people just the same with these products, surly not hurting people in general is a requirement no matter where you are.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: tommy on December 22, 2007, 01:31:42 pm ---That may be true in part, but they are hurting their own people just the same with these products, surly not hurting people in general is a requirement no matter where you are.

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It's not our job, or our place, to do anything about manufacturing standards for domestic products on the other side of the planet.

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