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It Is Time To Boycott Chinese Made Goods. For Quite A Few Reasons

December 31, 2009

Made in China Anton Goryunov writes from Moscow: I’m really fed up with all the Chinese junk that is sold everywhere in Russia, and beyond it. Every time I buy something, I know that somewhere there is a label on it saying ‘Made in China’. And how I rejoice – on very rare occasions – if it turns out that it was made somewhere else.

Oh, he is full of hatred, I can hear some people saying, having read this. He is denying the Chinese people the right to earn their living! Disgraceful!

Well, sue me, you politically correct buffoons! Why should I care what you think. I am tired of being forced to buy junk so that some clever retailer can make a quick buck and some Chinese worker can earn his 000,5 cents, sitting in some crappy factory for 18 hours. I pay my own money and I can demand quality. I am not a charity that has to support 1.4 billion people in China.

If I buy a shirt, shoes, a mobile phone or some household appliance, I want them to be made properly and work well. I do not want to find out that they do not last and that they are crap generally, but still hold on to them so as not to upset the Chinese working masses. I am sorry, but I do not give a damn about the Chinese proletariat. Just like the Chinese proletariat does not care about me.

Let us be honest about it: this whole ‘Chinese economic miracle’ is one big con. We were taken for a ride by the big companies and retailers who realised that they can cut their costs to the bone by having their goods made in China. No one cared that China was a communist dictatorship that pretended to embrace the free market. What free market are you talking about? It is one big concentration camp that uses slave labour. There are about six or seven big cities in China that are used as showcases of capitalism to fool the world that the economic boom in the country is benefitting a lot of Chinese. But the rest of the country is one big poverty trap where running water and electricity are a luxury.

How can you expect Chinese workers who live in such conditions to produce anything decent? It simply does not work like that. Slave labour has nothing to do with quality of products.

Chinese officials, of course, are telling everyone that they have state of the art industries producing top quality goods. For some reason this rubbishy propaganda is being accepted throughout the world, as if it has anything to do with the real state of things. It has not. Chinese products cannot compete in quality with any of the goods produced in the developed nations. If a garment is made in Italy or France or Britain or the U.S. it has the word ‘quality’ written over it. But Chinese goods are always badly made. It is a fact of life. There nothing you can do about it. Slaves do not produce decent shoes or shirts or even toys.

And now that we have entered a recession, which was to a large extent caused by overproduction of cheap Chinese goods that undermined proper companies across the world, we are being told that the poor Chinese people will be losing their jobs. They say that about 100 million Chinese might end up unemployed by the end of these year. There is talk about possible instability in China and civil unrest in the countryside.

I am sorry to sound unemotional, but why should we, the consumers, care about that? We did not ask our retailers to flood us with low quality junk. And we sure did not tell the Communist Party bosses in Beijing to make their industry totally dependent on the outside markets.

I laugh when I hear how some Chinese officials say that their great Middle Kingdom will redirect the economy towards domestic consumption. Yes, sure, the poverty stricken Chinese will start buying up all that crap that no one else wants to buy. The simple truth is that the Chinese economy in its present form has had it. It is finished. It has no future. And the so-called ‘vast financial reserves’ of China are a joke too, if you consider that the egg heads in Beijing found nothing more exciting than to buy up American government’s IOUs to the tune of $1.5 trillion. The Chinese rulers can now use them as toilet paper. They will be useless for the next 20 years at least.

And there is another downside to the obsession with Chinese made goods: everyone is talking about the danger that China might pose to the whole world when it finally becomes a military superpower. Make no mistake, the Chinese communist rulers are drooling at the thought of their mighty armies marching down the streets of New Delhi, Moscow and Paris. And yet, the very same countries that should be careful about feeding the Chinese Tiger are pumping billions into its economy to make a quick buck.

What the hell is wrong with you, people? Have you forgotten how you nourished Hitler before he turned on you? Or has your greed made you both blind and stupid?

This obsession with Chinese goods has to stop. The Chinese people would have to sort out their crisis themselves. And we, the consumers, must send a strong message to our retailers: take you Chinese made goods and stick them up yours! Enough is enough.

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5 Responses to “It Is Time To Boycott Chinese Made Goods. For Quite A Few Reasons”

  1. keith schipiour on July 16th, 2009 7:35 pm

    now sony has joined the world of distributing chinese made crap . $ 60.00 for a playstation 3 controller that worked for three days. What are people to do i live in the U S Which has already has sold it’s people out. Too many stupid people that just accept things. Time for a revolution of some Kind

  2. Annie on October 5th, 2009 2:30 am

    When a consumer buys Chinese goods they are supporting their military. Say no to Chinese goods!

  3. Gill on February 22nd, 2010 7:01 pm

    I cannot believe so few people are aware of where the goods they are buying are made. I visited Boots today to buy a hairdryer, because I was returning the one I bought yesterday in Argos, because it was made in China. The assistant checked the base of the boxes and then observed that they were all made in China, he couldn’t believe his company bought so much from there. No matter what the product, be it designer clothes, electricals, etc ,etc, all made in China. No wonder we are in such a financial mess when all the money from our retail purchases are flowing East by the billions and most of us are responsible for it. Please wake up and start thinking about whose pocket you are lining, because when someone close to you is made redundant, perhaps it is you who is responsible.

  4. samuel welsh on March 25th, 2010 9:48 am

    end chinnese market expanision now

  5. samuel welsh on June 7th, 2010 7:07 am

    china speaks from its ass

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