CHINESE MADE GOODS BECOMING A HARD SELL IN AMERICA
At long last we seem to be getting it. Every week I have something to say about China being our number one enemy and sometimes I think I am a lone voice. Shortly President Obama will be visiting China and I guess it will be the same old nonsense repeated. He will tell them how great they are and what wonderful partners they have become of America. He will spend time apologizing for America and reminding them that if it weren’t for Chinese investment in our Treasuries, America would be bankrupt. It is exactly the same shit that comes out of the mouths of the multi-national American corporations, Wall Street, the media and Washington Beltway. I think China must be making weeklyFedEx (a great friend of China) deliveries of brown paper bags filled with $100 bills to just about every American happy to short sell our nation and push their own agenda including we must walk on our bellies at the mention of anything Chinese.
Along with our new approach to consumerism, retailers are starting to notice a resistance of Americans to buy anything “Made in China”. The United States currently leads the world in becoming less enthusiastic to Chinese-made goods and the Chinese light manufacturing industry is starting to feel the chill. Trade exhibitions in large Chinese cities are looking like ghost towns as American buyers stay away in droves. These buyers have become aware that retail stores filled with Chinese junk will not help the nation out of recession. Furthermore, and more poignant is the fact our love affair for poor quality Chinese-made junk is at an end.
China is claiming that making sox and underpants to outfit the world should now move to other third world countries. They are now too sophisticated a country to be involved in such manufacture. I think they are wrong. They claim their growth in chemical, electronic and pharmaceutical manufacture is the wave of the future, not sweatshops pumping out T shirts and cheap shoes. Quite frankly I far more happily would don on a pair of Chinese made cotton sox before I would buy bottle of Chinese produced aspirins! I wish China would realize for them the honeymoon is over for export. I think they need to return to the times of the “Cultural Revolution” and concentrate on cleaning up their internal economy and withdrawing from the world stage as the factory base for producing junk the outside world does not need, but the local population might!
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