The animus towards China -- specifically imported products -- has never, in my lifetime, been as acute nor as widespread than it is today.
This article and the popular comments below it show the depth of contrary feeling. Chinese products are blamed for being injurious to human health, cheaply made, made with slave labor, anti-American, etc., requiring strict import regulation or even the outright ban of Chinese imports.
Few American internetizens appear to have much to say that's postive about China. One can't foresee anything but greater kickback from Americans. Importers will need to diversity their sources, if they haven't already.
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As those of us who work in manufacturing in China know, this is NOT a China problem, but more the failure of US brands, importers and distributors to take responsibility for testing and monitoring the products they are buying. Those companies who understand quality control and production monitoring in working with imports have been doing this since the beginning, and are not experiencing the defects and dangerous product issues that we see in articles like this. It's time for the media to stop blindly encouraging public outrage against China and do a better job at explaining the root causes of what we are seeing.
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December 23, 2008 4:05 AM
Posted on December 23, 2008 04:05