Thursday, November 18, 2010

An Obsession Made in China

After checking e-mail this morning, I ran across an article in a piece of news on Yahoo! about the evasion of China’s agricultural products in Vietnam market. Not so long before, via Facebook, I read a funny article about instantly eatable dried cuttlefish made of rubber and imported from China. It will be nothing to say if a country reliant on service industry like Singapore imports almost everything abroad. However, that will be a big question if a country whose 40% GDP is contributed by agriculture, fishery and processing has to import those things from China.

Some people will explain that because China and Vietnam is too close in many terms, the popularity of China products in Vietnam is too common. However, the problem is not that simple. When the overseas Vietnamese people who live in the United States of America make a trip to visit the home country, they usually bring with them electronic stuffs as gifts for their relatives in Vietnam. Mobile phone and computer are of the best choice. Unfortunately, when their relatives open the gift bought in the US, they found it “made in China”. Doubtlessly, “Made-in-China” is not only a fact of life, it also an obsession around the world.



Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/398263_an-obsession-made-in-china#ixzz15eJ0KqJB

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