Re: China - get ready

"Rob" <rdg (AT) insightbb (DOT) com> wrote

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
"George Orwell" <nobody (AT) mixmaster (DOT) it> wrote in message
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Automotive News - May 14, 2007

Last year, China eclipsed Japan as the world's second largest
automotive market, including commercial vehicles. By the end of the
decade, China could pass the United States.

Like a small planet, China is exerting its gravity on global automakers
and major suppliers. With growth stagnant in mature markets such as
Japan, the United States and Europe, China's booming economy is
irresistible.

Volkswagen AG and General Motors are the top global automakers in
China, but Toyota Motor Corp. is gaining on them quickly.

Meanwhile, Chinese automakers are swiftly gaining expertise. They are
launching their own brands http://www.cheryglobal.com/ building their
engineering staffs and exporting to developing markets in Asia and
Africa. And some are laying plans to export vehicles to the United
States.

China is determined to join the world's major industrial nations. The
auto industry will help it get there.


If the cars they produce are anything like the food they produce, they
will be deadly to drive. How could anyone trust a country that
regularly puts industrial chemicals, sawdust, and garbage like that
in FOOD that it exports?

Ted



America will moan and bitch about the awful quality of the food and other
products it imports from China, but will buy them nonetheless.

Too many carcinogens - of Chinese origin - showing up lately. China will
have to get its act together if it wants to remain on sure footing
world-wide on its present fast-track. OTOH, other countries - incl. the
U.S - will also have to get their acts together to halt the import of the
blatant laced-with-poisons foodstuffs.

Cathy

Because the stuff is cheap, and Americans are nothing if not cheap. It
worked for the Japs, it worked for the Koreans, and it'll work for the
Chinese. The crap America buys from Walmart is a pretty good indication
of the value America puts on quality. Meanwhile, when the last American
worker leaves the last American factory, turn out the lights behind you.