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To: AIG
Why would China want to crush America? America's corporations are helping China get rich.

And America's corporations are doing what for America? China has a plan and if you think that China cares about America's survival you are in dreamland. China is already dictating to America's corporations that if they want to manufacture a product in China they need to move the entire R&D to China. Pretty soon America's corporations will be so far in bed with China they wont even be America's corporations anymore. The problem is that the people running these corporations think like you. They see opportunity, they think greed, but they are not thinking it all the way through to the end game. Don't let money blind you perspective on what the Communist Chinese are doing.

81 posted on 08/11/2002 6:08:45 AM PDT by blueriver
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To: blueriver
It's ironic how America is turning more communist while China is turning more capitalist. Who would have thought it possible? Instead of abandoning capitalism, Americans should welcome the expansion of capitalism to new places in the world. Do I need to explain why capitalism is good in the first place? Capitalism is as much a part of the American way of life as apple pie and baseball. Capitalism supports America. America itself, in fact, is the pied piper and world headquarters of global capitalism and economic globalization. The First World's markets are saturated now, so there's no place to go except China.
82 posted on 08/11/2002 5:17:41 PM PDT by AIG
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To: blueriver
And America's corporations are doing what for America? China has a plan and if you think that China cares about America's survival you are in dreamland. China is already dictating to America's corporations that if they want to manufacture a product in China they need to move the entire R&D to China. Pretty soon America's corporations will be so far in bed with China they wont even be America's corporations anymore.

America's corporations are the heart of America's capitalist system, the economic system which has made America the richest and most powerful nation on earth. America's corporations are the envy of the world and the foundation of America's prosperity, and you should not be dissing them for merely doing what they're supposed to be doing, which is making money

Capitalism is a two-way street. China benefits, but so does America. American consumers gets low-cost goods which keep US inflation down in America's economy and Americans' standard of living high, and American shareholders (including probably yourself) ultimately get richer. What would you have Coke and other US firms do? Not try to expand into China? Americans already drink 400 Cokes on average per-capita per year. Without new markets, America's corporations suffer and America ultimately suffers.

When China might become the biggest source of revenue for the Fortune 500 in a few decades, it's no wonder US firms want to set up R&D and other facilities in China. They want to be close to their market, which any smart businessman wants to be. Plus, you avoid shipping costs altogether by building your products on the mainland itself. Anti-capitalist like you would try to do business differently but ultimately just go bankrupt.

83 posted on 08/11/2002 5:26:40 PM PDT by AIG
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To: blueriver
what the Communist Chinese are doing

What would you have China do? Stick to a communist economic system? Since when have adopting capitalism and trying to rise out of Third World living conditions become crimes in Americans' eyes?

84 posted on 08/11/2002 5:29:07 PM PDT by AIG
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