Honestly? Most of my experience with Made in China has not been that good. More than that, I have an issue with the following:
1) Our local industries are dying off because everyone is out for a buck and import cheap Chinese stuff and sell it at huge profits. Our clothing industry is but one example (anyone shopped at Woolworths lately?). In a country with the unemployment South Africa have, we are contributing to poverty and crime by supporting China and not local.
2) The quality of many things coming from China is really bad, yet we pay similar prices here than before for the good stuff. It appears as if most things coming from China are made to last for the minimum amount of time. This means the enormous waste problem the world already faces, is just compounded and compounded. Another example of quality that comes to mind is the many dog food brands that had to be recalled more than once in America, because dogs were dying due to contaminated ingredients from China.
3) Factories in China are known for gross human rights abuses. Workers are treated like slaves. Bad conditions and treatment, minimum wages.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-suicide.html There are many more.
Did you know that the election in Zambia was not about jobs, infrastructure etc., but about how the government of Zambia supported China after workers were shot at in Chinese-owned miines in Zambia?
http://chinadigitaltimes.net/china/zambia/ and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11558741
4) Because of the above, China has the financial power to get countries to do as it wants, like prescribing to our government whether the Dalai Lama is allowed in our country or not.
It seems to me that the world is paying a high price for the cheap imports, but not many care as long as there is profit to be made.
None of this is meant against you personally, but let us not pull the wool over our eyes at the high price we are truly paying for imports.
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