Chinese buy more goods from Missouri

STLtoday ^ | 3/5/04 | Eric Heisler

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

China imported $260.2 million of Missouri-made goods last year, leapfrogging past Germany, Italy and others as a major market for the state's products.

That mark also doubled the value of Missouri goods sold to China in 2002, according to a report this week from the Missouri Department of Economic Development.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Weekend news.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

For Missouri businesses to compete against *gasp* China, there must be a lot more $0.13 per hour labor there than I thought. </sarcasm>

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I queried for similar news and found nothing on the web. These are facts! One of the primary issues, what few there are, from the Kerry camp is outsourcing. Well?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I queried for similar news and found nothing on the web. These are facts! One of the primary issues, what few there are, from the Kerry camp is outsourcing. Well?

My comment was meant to be sarcastic, in light of the fact that protectionists think we can't compete with the Chinese just because they have cheap labor.

Cheap labor is not necessarily cost-effective labor.

This proves it.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I was stressing the obvious.

[elfman2]

How can this be???

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

China to slow growth to focus on array of problems, premier says
Kansas City Star - 55 minutes ago

BEIJING - (KRT) - China needs to ease its foot off the economic gas pedal and deal with a growing array of social, economic and rural problems before they worsen, Premier Wen Jiabao said in a candid address Friday at the opening session of ... -- Google

[Admin Moderator]

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[Missouri]

Ping.

[BiffWondercat]

Source material for reverse engineering. Once we accept your generous off to visit and see how you make, install, and maintain these systems.....

Sure, you will be supplying us for a very long time!

[BiffWondercat]

off=offer

(oops! I'm sure they have the best hopes for their American business partners!)

[elfman2]

"Source material for reverse engineering. Once we accept your generous off to visit and see how you make, install, and maintain these systems..... Sure, you will be supplying us for a very long time!"

Copying technology has such a long half life, ask the USSR. And if you structure your “scientist” to reverse engineer technology, they’re about as creative as students who focused on how to cheat.

I roomed with 4-5 Chinese computer science and engineering students in college. They tapped the Asian student union’s data bank of tests from all the professors. I wouldn’t hire an Asian just out of collage any more than I’d hire an attractive woman computer science student out of college. Neither has probably ever completed a major programming assignment on their own.