While the world debates whether China will be the world’s next super-power, Chinese sweatshops keep on churning out cheap goods for the world to consume. According to the International Herald Tribune, Wal Mart is one of the biggest offenders in selling imported sweatshop goods in the West.
The megalithic chain has sold everything from hammers to Christmas trees imported from China. The main stream media is endlessly reporting the names of factories and their victims without investigating the dynamics of the Chinese economy or the Western demand curve, providing selling points for such goods.
Instead, what the Western media is trying to do is to quietly remove the burden of guilt from white shoulders. By incessantly pointing out the laxity of the Chinese government in allowing children to work in inhuman conditions, the onus for solving the problem is being shifted to the barbarous natives. After all, the whites are just buying what the Chinese are providing at cheaper rates.
The facts are otherwise, and are rooted in history. China was systematically exploited for cheap labor by the British. The country was then ravaged by the Cultural Revolutionists under General Mao. The Chinese government is now in a hurry to prove its ability to deliver results, in spite of being a Marxist economy. Joining the global rat race for being a superpower, Communist China has embraced capitalism with all it evils and inequalities.
Thus, the Chinese have to forget their own poor. The sweatshops exist as the developed world has created a scenario where MNCs increasingly seek cheaper overhead costs. And none will pay a dime more from developing countries like China, India and Pakistan. And if the Chinese were to manufacture goods at a higher price, none would buy such products! Businesses will run home. leading the Chinese economy to collapse.
Let the West pay higher prices for outsourced goods and let it rant about sweatshops. Otherwise, the sorrow about laborers seems obvious lies.
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Via: IHT
