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[Ashermusic]

I have several pieces of gear that were manufactured in China and as a result offered a lot of bang for the buck.

However, my daughter has made me aware of the Chinese support of the Sudanese government and its effect  on what is happening in Darfur

http://www.savedarfur.org/pages/china_sudan_and_the_darfur_c onflict_fact_sheet

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0626/p01s08-woaf.html

I will no longer be buying products from China.

If there is however information I am missing that might give me another point of view I am open to being educated.

[rankus]

Good topic... this needs more exposure!

[Barry Hufker]

If you think about it, there is no way you can avoid purchasing items made in China.

Barry

[Ashermusic]

Barry Hufker wrote on Tue, 24 July 2007 19:02

If you think about it, there is no way you can avoid purchasing items made in China. Barry

Sure you can but it takes some effort and more money spent.

[compasspnt]

Don't worry.

Soon enough you'll be driving one of these...

[Barry Hufker]

or one of these.

[garret]

Ashermusic wrote on Tue, 24 July 2007 19:07

Barry Hufker wrote on Tue, 24 July 2007 19:02 If you think about it, there is no way you can avoid purchasing items made in China. Barry Sure you can but it takes some effort and more money spent.

I heard an interview with this woman on NPR the other day.
 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1205629 5

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470116137/npr-5-20

It takes a lot of effort and a quite a bit more money...  Got kids?  It took this woman several months to find a pair of shoes for her son.  She finally found a pair, imported from Italy.

An admirable goal, however.. and I wish you luck.

I do try to buy locally, hit the resale shops, etc... but unless you're willing to drop out of the modern consumer culture entirely, it's very hard to avoid chinese products.

[maxdimario]

sort of like chinese pianos, which start losing torque on the pinblock after a year.

junk.

[Ashermusic]

garret wrote on Wed, 25 July 2007 04:32

Ashermusic wrote on Tue, 24 July 2007 19:07 Barry Hufker wrote on Tue, 24 July 2007 19:02 If you think about it, there is no way you can avoid purchasing items made in China. Barry Sure you can but it takes some effort and more money spent. I heard an interview with this woman on NPR the other day.   http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1205629 5 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470116137/npr-5-20 It takes a lot of effort and a quite a bit more money...  Got kids?  It took this woman several months to find a pair of shoes for her son.  She finally found a pair, imported from Italy. An admirable goal, however.. and I wish you luck. I do try to buy locally, hit the resale shops, etc... but unless you're willing to drop out of the modern consumer culture entirely, it's very hard to avoid chinese products.

Perhaps but there is a wide swath between being 100% and doing nothing so I will shoot for doing it as much as I can and if everyone else also does there may be some impact.

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[Barry Hufker]

You're absolutely right.

Part of my saying how hard it is to avoid purchasing goods made in China is to show how inordinately we are dependent upon them.  It's a dangerous thing.

Barry

[Barkley McKay]

compasspnt wrote on Wed, 25 July 2007 02:19

Don't worry. Soon enough you'll be driving one of these...

Thats just the re-branded Rover 75 isn't it?

When Rover went belly up in Longbridge, it was the only asset the Chinese where really after. Also I think the 75 was one of the last BMW and Rover liasons before BMW 'sold' the company to the Phoenix consortium.
So I guess, what is it really!

barks

[CHANCE]

As some of you know, I import electronics and mics from,,,,China.
A little over a year ago, I put together a group buy, only to be informed (after the buy from a former poster here who is from China) that this company paid their employees next to nothing and was a sweat shop. I ceased doing business with them. This former poster informed me of another manufacturer who is very good to their workers, and the quality shows. Somehow, as Rodney says, "we're going to have to try to get along" Look where most if not all our memory comes from, "Tiwan". When their big earthquake hit, I needed memory and had to pay thru the nose to get it. It seems like there are too many eggs in one basket, and in this fragile world with so much tension, if we lose one basket, we lose all the eggs in that basket

[Jay Kadis]

The lack of diversification in production is the Achilles heel of globalization.  I have a universal switching power supply on back order that no one knows where it is or when it might be delivered.  That never happened when they were manufactured in the US.

[compasspnt]

Interesting Barks

So is that now, and/or was it then, manufactured in China?

Sounds like a lot of BMW input perhaps?

[Barkley McKay]

compasspnt wrote on Wed, 25 July 2007 20:27

Interesting Barks So is that now, and/or was it then, manufactured in China? Sounds like a lot of BMW input perhaps?

BMW sold the MG Rover company to the Phoenix Consortium (UK group) around 2000 (for a nominal