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To: happytobealive
Have you OBJECTIVELY analysed the quality of Chinese products lately?

I live down in Chile and was able to check out a Seagull camera. Costs about a third as much as a Pentax or Canon, and is astonishingly well put together. The optics are SUPERB, if not quite as good as Canon PRESENT DAY optics.

At least as good as Canon or Pentax best ten years ago, which in practical terms is good enough for most people.

China manufactures just about everything now (no doubt they have learned from plants set up by Americans, Japanese, Europpeans, etc) but

DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE TECHNICAL PROWESS OF THE CHINESE, NOR OVERESTIMATE THEIR INTENTIONS.

Chinese are just folks trying to get along. I would be very surprised if anything violent ever came of Taiwan...

It is sound and fury signifying nothing - China brings it up now and again for their own internal politics and to gain prestige on the world stage by "standing up" to the U.S...

209 posted on 07/28/2002 7:14:54 AM PDT by chilepepper
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To: chilepepper
Chile is about the only Latin American country that didn't follow the Third World democratic path but followed the pro-capitalist, authoritarian (under Pinochet) path that proved so successful in 18th century Europe and Japan, Korea, Taiwan, etc. in the latter half of the 20th century.
212 posted on 07/28/2002 7:27:35 AM PDT by AIG
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To: chilepepper
The communist chinese government and not the general population is who i worry about. The United States started farming out alot of their industry the entertainment industry to the factories. Deindustrializing the united states for the sake of a democratic china is a very bad idea, when that government has threatened to vaporize two of your biggest cities.
213 posted on 07/28/2002 7:45:28 AM PDT by bok
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