For many global companies, China represents a very attractive market in terms of size and growth rate. Yet, it ranks lower in terms of economic freedom and higher in political risk than other country markets because it has a communist government. Despite these risks, Volkswagen, Isuzu, and Boeing are just a few of the hundreds of companies that have established manufacturing operations in China. This is due in large part to the Chinese government making sales in China contingent on a company’s willingness to locate production there. The government wants Chinese companies to learn modern management skills from non-Chinese companies and acquire technology. Some observers believe that when Western companies agree to such conditions, they are bargaining away important industry knowledge in exchange for sales today.
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You said it, and mentioned the dangers and benefits for China.  They get the technology, and the jobs. Plus they don't allow much importing, unless some of the process is there.  The exception is raw materials.  They actually have the right idea.  Eventually US politicians are going to let everything leave the US, and we will loose in the long run.  One day, China will be the only super-power.  I just hope I'm gone before that happens.
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Part of it has to due with their huge population. A lot of jobs have been outsourced to China because they can make it cheaper because they don't have things like a minimum wage like America. Therefore they can always "find someone else" to fill a job.
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I have no statistics for you, but the biggest success I see is in getting manufacturing contracts with the western world.  There are an amazing number of things in our marketplace which are made in China.  They are designed by Americans (or whatever), but then those designs are taken by the Chinese factory and turned out fast and cheap and generally pretty good.  They allow the American company to set the standards of quality in most cases, and meet that standard.  \n\nI am a doll collector, and most porcelain and an awful lot of vinyl dolls are made in China these days, along with a goodly percentage of doll clothes and accessories.  You will see the limited edition of a beautiful doll by a famous doll designer, and then a year or so later you will see the manufactured doll from China.  They are often distinguishable only by an expert.  Or, to be more fair with their customers, the limited edition designer who makes it big designs similar, but not the same, dolls to be manufactured overseas.
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Do a search on the Dept. of State government website and see if they have anything.\n\nI know that in China some things have changed, but not enough. Not too long ago, a class of school children were killedand injured making fireworks during school, which they were forced to do.  95% of fireworks in the U.S. are made in China.\n\nIf you are interested, e-mail me and I will send you my research paper on whether U.S. businesses should do business in China with regard to human rights issues.  It may give you some thoughts and leads.\n\nSue
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China is already an economic superpower \nIt is the no.1 manufacturing destination in the world !\n\nAs far as overall econonomy, China overtaking the USA ... some way to go !!!
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Tariffs a lot of times do not acheive what they had hoped.\nTariffs against China would hopefully create jobs in the US, but in the long run may not do what the intentions were.\n\nOne thing that the US hopes to acheive through the WTO is intellectual writes, where in China they will burn or take anything we create here and sell it.  This is considered thefy in the US, so by tariffs and the WTO over time they hope to get rid of this and create an intellectual properties law and system in China.  This would be a great benefit to people in the US as they would make money off of things sold in China.
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Unfortunately that used to be true. And was much of the reason for the foreign cars making such inroads to sales here in the states.\nManufacturing quality has improved a lot since then, but American made cars are still subject to the costs cutters knife. If one product they use is a tenth of a cent cheaper, they use it.\nThey aso sell rather than repair, defective vehicles.\nThey used to return them to the assembly line for refit, or repair..........
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They are doing it with General Motors cars as well. Televisions from RCA (Thompson Electronics), and I am sure thousands of other things America has given them with our outsourcing. Our trade with Communist China is upside down too with the Republican Administration of George Bush. 3% from us to them, and over 20% from them to America. They have broken Americas trade agreement for years now, and Bush wont do anything about it. They are Communists and an enemy to the United States. They are using the extra revenue to extend their military also. It's a bad deal all around. America is going to try to remove the republicans from our Congress in November hopefully.
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The reasons are so many. Some western people go there sent from their companies to supervise or to help business relations. There are lot of people interested in Chinese culture or people who have studied Chinese linguistic so they get lot of opportunities to work in China.\nChina becomes very open market and big economy so no wonder this is happening. I've been to China. I found it extremely interesting though quite different from my culture. The hardest thing to fit into was the high humidity climate and the lack of good yogurt, milk and cheese.
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China bought oil from Iraq too but they didn't jump. If we moved on Iran with as much support as we have in the world, China would keep a low profile as well. Because china is dependent on export. They depend on the world's economy and on the buying of what they make. They may seem fierce, but with their economical hands tied they're just paper dragons.
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It's not really a case of losing courage when you look at the size, growth and devlopment that is occurring in China.  We are not the only super power in the world today.\n\nThe real risk would be if China decided to call in the US loans resulting from the deficit, stopped buying US denominated bonds and put trade restrictions on US imports.  After all without China the US Dollar would be flushed down the financial toilet instead of treading water in the toilet bowl!
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Basicly the reason is that free market mechanism optimize short term profits. Examples abound: \n- why investing in pollution control *now*, although cleaning up in 20 years might cost much more?\n- why investing in fundamental research *now*, although it might give us a killer app in 10 years? \n- why not move our production factories to India and China *now*, although our workless population at home may no longer be able to buy our products in five years?
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China is a communist dicatorship where there is no such thing as free speech and seeking information about the outside world is a crime.\n\nHu went to see Bill Gates because Microsoft is a bigger threat to the Chinese government than the US is. Yahoo, Google, and all computer programs that originate outside China are a massive problem for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and Hu is trying to tread a very fine line between allowing some restricted internet access and armed insurrection.
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1. They market their huge labour force.\n\n2. They encourage Foreign Direct Investment from many different companies, but until recently, forced them into entering Joint Ventures with local companies in order to build up their own companies.\n\n3. Promote themselves as the next superpower, with 300 million people progressing into the middle class, which equals a huge potential market.\n\n4. Promote themselves as a cultured society - the mysticisim of the orient. China is rich in culture and history, a tourism magnet.\n\n5. Promote themselves as being more enlightened than before - especially with human rights. The Olympics in 2008 are an example of this.\n\nIn all, China is proudly proclaiming its rapid progress to the world, making other countries seem stupid if they do not jump in.
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The Chinese economy has adopted a policy of laissez faire capitalism that they call market reforms in order to convince their citizens they are still a communist country. These market reform have led for instance to the cheap labor you refered to and are signifcant because they have led to the state being even less involved in the Chinese economy than in the US. The reason they are still viewed as communist is their curtailment of free speech and free press. The econmic growth you are referring to however is mostly enjoyed by the people who were wealthy to begin with and have now gotten even wealthier while the poor have become even poorer. So the short answer is the government no longer has a significant role in the economy of China.
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ECONOMIC MIGHT SUPERCEDES ECOLOGICAL RIGHTS (as always!)\n\nCHINA / INDIA are the flavors-of-the-decade for foreign investments. The production factories of the world. Fortune 500 corporations are there, irresistible western culture and trends attract chinese like nothing else on earth - everybody wants a 'western lifestyle' and more...\n\nBUT at what price?\n\nIn only 10 short years, air pollution level in certain Chinese cities have become dangerously 'unfit for living'; stinking rivers flowing with modern-day (not bio-degradable) garbage; farmland abused with chemical-based fertilizers/pesticides; factories dumping toxic everything into streams and rivers, spewing lung-damaging pollutants into the air; the pollution list goes on and on....\n\nCHINA is THE most vibrant place on earth now for business opportunities. Nobody wants to think of the negative side of being 'The World's Biggest Factory' when there is so much money to be made now, now, now!!!\n\nThe late Deng Xiao Peng who opened the bamboo door to allow capitalism and free trade in the early '80s may perhaps regret what he once uttered: "What's wrong with making money?" He can't, he's dead... like the 'pristine' China you and i know. and loved.
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Its possible, China's record on human rights is appalling.  The trade in human organs has been happening for years I'm afraid to say.  Often its impoverished locals who are persuaded to sell their organs to tourists who come to the country for transplant.  It happens in India so it may well be happening in China too.