My Melody integrated amp was made in China. A very fine tube integrated. Beautiful, and a bargain at $2500. Australia based company designed it. Made in China in a factory where the workers live upstairs, because between the hours they work and the money they aren't paid that's all they can afford. I knew some of this at the time but the rest I only learned much later.
Its hilarious you mention plunder, because that is exactly what China, or the CCP anyway, is all about. There is no rule of law. Instead there is only the rule of the CCP. No labor laws, no environmental laws, nothing at all really which is how they are able to plunder intellectual and trade secrets, not to mention things like a whole pharmaceuticals industry manufacturing narcotics shipped all over the world.
China provides the best organ transplants in the world. Right now in China anyone arrested is tissue-typed and ultra-sounded and logged into a database. So then when your match comes up they arrest you again, only this time you get strapped down and your organs removed, without anesthetic. A gruesome death for you to be sure but beautiful fresh organs for someone with money. Talk about plunder.
Myself, I found a lot of this hard to believe at first. Right now though I'm living with a Chinese national who works internationally, has family there, returns frequently. There is no longer any doubt. This ain't the half of it either.
But its enough to want to slap down hard on anyone with such foolish notions of what it means to buy goods made in China.
Its hilarious you mention plunder, because that is exactly what China, or the CCP anyway, is all about. There is no rule of law. Instead there is only the rule of the CCP. No labor laws, no environmental laws, nothing at all really which is how they are able to plunder intellectual and trade secrets, not to mention things like a whole pharmaceuticals industry manufacturing narcotics shipped all over the world.
China provides the best organ transplants in the world. Right now in China anyone arrested is tissue-typed and ultra-sounded and logged into a database. So then when your match comes up they arrest you again, only this time you get strapped down and your organs removed, without anesthetic. A gruesome death for you to be sure but beautiful fresh organs for someone with money. Talk about plunder.
Myself, I found a lot of this hard to believe at first. Right now though I'm living with a Chinese national who works internationally, has family there, returns frequently. There is no longer any doubt. This ain't the half of it either.
But its enough to want to slap down hard on anyone with such foolish notions of what it means to buy goods made in China.