[Grampa Dave]

You left out one very interesting phenomenia that has been happening between Taiwan and the ChiComs which really backs up your thesis.

I have been on a personal boycott of the ChiCom products since the Clintoons/Gorons struck it rich via the ChiComs.

I read the label where any product is made. If it was made in ChiCom land, I don't buy it.

In the last about 2 years, I keep running into all types of products made in both countries or in one country and marketed by the other country. So they are blending together to make and market products to be exported.

In ten years most of the old hard line commie will be buried and replaced with capitalists.

[The KG9 Kid]

Quite true, Grampa Dave.

There is often no distinction between many Taiwanese companies and mainland Chinese companies. They're often one in the same. You're right; I did forget to mention that.

Be they communist, or capitalist, it all comes in second behind the fact that they're Chinese first.

Apologies to those readers that are making a supplementary living off of Red Chinese scaremongering, but I don't see any evidence other than it's a load of BS at the moment.

[Yardstick]

Interesting that you say that. I was in AutoZone the other day browsing through a rack of cheapo car accessories (simulated carbon-fiber shift knobs, inexpensive bolt-on exhaust tips, etc), and I noticed that several items had "Made in China or Taiwan" on their packaging. It struck me as a little odd that there would be a connection between the two.

BTW, has anyone noticed that you can tell when stuff has been made in China without even looking at the "made in" label? I'm so conscious of avoiding Chinese stuff that I can now tell if something was made there just by the texture of a box's cardboard, or the feel of a plastic blister pack, or the quality of the printing. Chinese packaging has a uniquely cheap look and feel to it.