This is what your house look like without China!
Pretty much everything you wear, everything you sit on, everything you look at, everything you type into or talk into was probably made in China.
Made in China labelTake it all away and what would you have left? Let me know. (To make this point, an American journalist, Sara Bongiorni, recently wrote a book A Year Without Made in China about her efforts to live without Chinese-made products. She found it pretty tricky.)
China makes around 80% of the world’s photocopiers, 65% of the world’s mobile phones, 60% of its digital cameras, 50% of its computers and 45% of its microwaves.
This has a huge effect. It’s thought that Chinese-made products save the average shopper in the UK hundreds of pounds a year. Chinese production and Chinese spending mean that people in the UK get cheap goods and low interest rates. So we are all coming to depend on what happens in this country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/jamesreynolds/2008/06/made_in_china.html
Original video:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7474580.stm
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August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
It’s amazing what …
It’s amazing what happens when one does not buy Chinese Made Crap. The Chinese crap is so poorly made and with the cheapest materials. A vast majority of Chinese items have died and have been buried in “Mt Trashmore”. Items are being replaced with older rummage sale and Goodwill items . Made in China means garbage.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
my washer in made …
my washer in made in new zealand, my clothes made in Italy, my shoes from germany and my car from japan.
NONSENSE!!!
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
how about before 20 …
how about before 20 years without chinese junk in our country, itz cheap with no quality, just waste of money.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
F..K China…and …
F..K China…and stop buying there products made my slaves…1000’s of slave like chinese miners die each year..(facts hidden by the Chinese govt). Call your Reps and demand that the USA stop importing and buying CHinese!!
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
The rest of the …
The rest of the world is competent to produce its own domestic metals, plastics, leather, cotton and all other raw materials used to make products. We did not depend on China for those things just a few years ago, and if Chinese production were interrupted, we could continue by increasing domestic production. Right now a major problem for the US and other countries is a massive trade imbalance with China.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Slavery is …
Slavery is forbidden on paper? Does that mean it doesn’t exist? The people in China are payed mere pennies compared to the dollars payed to American workers, and for the same work. IF they are payed at all. Do a Google search for “Slave Labor in China Sparks Outrage” and read Time’s June 2007 article about slaves working 18 hour days in brick kilns, including children and mentally handicapped individuals.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
audio is distorted …
audio is distorted cause that program for recording videos isnt working properly or whatever is wrong, not because camera is made in china. this video is from some news agency, bbc news maybe, I can recognize reporters voice.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
slavery is …
slavery is forbidden in china if you havent heard yet. I’m wondering which biased, brainwashed person told you about slave labour. fox news?
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
there is enough …
there is enough soul in my sweet and sour sauce made in china. its all in your mind, a placebo effect. if you wouldnt know which things are made in china, you would still think “oh, they have soul and quality”. asus pda I have works fine. looks like there is quality in it.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
how do you know the …
how do you know the metals and plastic in the things you use isnt from china? who is mining iron ore for your steel? who is pumping oil for your plastic? who is mass breeding cows and pigs for your leather? who is growing cotton for your clothes? china is the largest cotton producer.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
how do you know the …
how do you know the metals and plastic in the things you use isnt from china? who is mining iron ore for your steel? who is pumping oil for your plastic? who is mass breeding cows and pigs for your leather? who is growing cotton for your clothes? china is the largest cotton producer.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
most of my stuff is …
most of my stuff is from japan…. sony, toshiba….sorry to break that to ya.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
We had all of these …
We had all of these things long before the «Made in China» label started to appear everywhere. Instead of China, our products were made in USA, Japan, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Canada, Australia, and many other places around the world. Now everything comes from China, but unemployment is up all over the world in the places that used to make all our stuff, while China steals our designs and manufactures them with slave labor and inferior quality. For shame!
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Nope, without china …
Nope, without china there would be products with more soul and quality. They dominate the markets because they copy the innovators and sell their products for less. China is dirty.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
tv-cameras wasing …
tv-cameras wasing machine in my house is all made in italy.
CHINA SUCKS
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
the washer and …
the washer and dryer cost too much to ship, probably made in US or Canada, maybe mexico
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
haha like i like …
haha like i like how u think
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
srry man but most …
srry man but most of my stuff has the “made in Japan” label
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
video seems a bit …
video seems a bit choppy/distorted audio
video camera was probably made in china
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Before those things …
Before those things were made in China, they were made in Japan and the United States. Think of how China used to look merely 30 years ago. China needs us, the United States, far more than we need them.
Don’t forget it.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
the bra is probably …
the bra is probably made in China as well, lol.
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
why are the windows …
why are the windows and ac wall plates and door handles and doors and tiles and such still in the video? or lights and timber furniture and laundry basket and the man’s glasses and fake plant and picture hook and stationary and teh rest? take away the nails and screws and glue and the house wouldn’t even be there at all!
August 11th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
great how much of …
great how much of it was designed in china?