topgearwascool
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What they do in China is up to China.
I personally don't feel like they've played 'fair' to get to where they've gotten to today.
By UK standards, China are lacking; Human Rights, Animal Rights, Democracy, Child Labour Laws and Freedom.
In the UK (where I'm from/posting this post from); You can't really work unless you're 16yrs old, and even then there are rules like how long you can work for and food you're entitled to as well as a minimum wage/rate of pay...
China, have the audacity to flaunt their 10% GDP, have no respect for copyright infringement, has no human rights or concept of ownership, and it actually matters WHERE in China you're born; Where you were born in China could be the difference between receiving health care and education and having nothing and being branded a lifelong peasant.
They've been on the brink of famine, so they consider dogs and insects a form of protein (which is all well and good for China considering their population figures and history)...
But it's not fair.
Beijing is probably the most polluted place on the planet and I swear China wouldn't be so prosperous if they had human rights and freedom like the UK, yet the UK has to sit down and listen why China inflate their own currency, and don't do anything to help with carbon emissions.
I'd say, if there wasn't a billion people in China, we could trade embargo them.
China doesn't need to be so prosperous.
Why can't countries with human rights just pull out of places like China?
We don't have slave labour in the UK, but we buy from Chinese slave labour.
An 8yr old in England has to go to school, so why is okay for a Chinese 8yr old to make my iPhones?
I personally want to cut China out of my supply chain.
But I am one person.
As long as we continue to feed 'Made in China', then China, with their smoggy Beijing, over inflated currency and slave labour, will continue to think it's so smart... When really, we haven't got the heart to watch a billion people starve.
I personally don't feel like they've played 'fair' to get to where they've gotten to today.
By UK standards, China are lacking; Human Rights, Animal Rights, Democracy, Child Labour Laws and Freedom.
In the UK (where I'm from/posting this post from); You can't really work unless you're 16yrs old, and even then there are rules like how long you can work for and food you're entitled to as well as a minimum wage/rate of pay...
China, have the audacity to flaunt their 10% GDP, have no respect for copyright infringement, has no human rights or concept of ownership, and it actually matters WHERE in China you're born; Where you were born in China could be the difference between receiving health care and education and having nothing and being branded a lifelong peasant.
They've been on the brink of famine, so they consider dogs and insects a form of protein (which is all well and good for China considering their population figures and history)...
But it's not fair.
Beijing is probably the most polluted place on the planet and I swear China wouldn't be so prosperous if they had human rights and freedom like the UK, yet the UK has to sit down and listen why China inflate their own currency, and don't do anything to help with carbon emissions.
I'd say, if there wasn't a billion people in China, we could trade embargo them.
China doesn't need to be so prosperous.
Why can't countries with human rights just pull out of places like China?
We don't have slave labour in the UK, but we buy from Chinese slave labour.
An 8yr old in England has to go to school, so why is okay for a Chinese 8yr old to make my iPhones?
I personally want to cut China out of my supply chain.
But I am one person.
As long as we continue to feed 'Made in China', then China, with their smoggy Beijing, over inflated currency and slave labour, will continue to think it's so smart... When really, we haven't got the heart to watch a billion people starve.