Hey All
With the diplomatic row between Aus and China over the last few weeks culminating in the tweets from the Chinese embassy, there’s been an obvious rising of tensions between the countries.
Given how ridiculous and ironic china’s position is, to have the gall to call out Australia for human rights abuses do you feel more strongly about trying to avoid products manufactured in China?
The report itself was Australia holding itself to account, it could have easily been covered up never to see the light of day but Australia relative to the rest of the world is one with more integrity than that.
I don’t see how China could ever lecture a country like Australia when it comes to war crimes/human rights abuse given their long track record, most notably the persecution of the Uighur population as well numerous other violations ranging from censorship to imprisonment/torture of dissidents. I don’t see China holding itself to account for those crimes anytime soon.
I like the idea in theory of boycotting Chinese made products but the reality is unfortunately from my perspective is that the supply chain is far too integrated in China to be able to boycott anything. Hopefully western businesses are more incentivised now to move their supply chains away from China but that will a long and slow process over many years possibly decades.
So TLDR will you be trying to avoid Chinese made products or are we in a situation that these products are so pervasive with our current lifestyles there’s nothing we can really do at the moment.
Edit: Poll added. Good suggestion.
You forget the basics of business.
All these Chinese craps are bought by consumers because its cheap. Sure we all like good quality products however if Business like Kmart and BigW or consumers like you and me are not willing to pay for much better quality products for much higher prices, how do you expect factories in China to make much better quality products for less than what the business is willing to pay?
At the end of the day, if all good are like iPhone quality, everyone will need to pay alot more.
Same goes with people talking about China buying up all the Aussie made goods, don't forget at the other end of the transaction there is also a SELLER willing to SELL, yes AUSSIE SELLERS!
Everything goes both ways so you can blame squarely on China making sh*t quality good if consumers are not willing to pay for it.
I for one hate some of the crap quality goods made in China however I am not willing to pay more so the blame are squarely on me been cheap.
Because at the end of the day no one put a gun to your head asking you to buy China Made goods, IT IS YOUR CHOICE AND YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!
By the way have you ever thought about without cheap products that are made in China, how you think the lower paid workers is going to afford the little luxury they have left once all the bills are paid? As not everyone are paid $100k a year.
My new job is only $50k and I have the whole family to feed on. There is no way I can afford quality goods as it will cost more!