This is just so wrong

 

1. I’m with you on the “quality” of Chinese-made construction materials.  Every other nail bends in half when you hit it with a hammer, leading me to yell “cheap Chinese pot metal shit!”

   Posted by Wiccapundit       02/04/2011  at  09:34 AM  



2. Good luck finding American made nails. You can get American made screws - try Screw Products Inc - but wire nails are hard. You’d think they would cost more to ship than to make, but China makes them with near-slave labor and uses any old crap that will melt instead of proper quality steel.

   Posted by Drew458       02/04/2011  at  09:42 AM  



3. Doing business with and in China is a very involved process and requires concessions I’d never been aware of before a program on this very subject a day or two ago on BBC radio.

   A company working there MUST agree to open up their private tech. manuals and share the technology with the Chinese company they are contracted with. I have already forgotten the term, the Chinese have an official term and agency for this. Damn I wish I’d been able to record it.  Bottom line of course is as you have already pointed out, the Chinese end up with the technology AND the patent/partnership. The program was part of a series I only happened upon by accident.

   Posted by peiper       02/04/2011  at  11:11 AM  



4. I think the term is called “spies”.

   Posted by Drew458       02/04/2011  at  02:32 PM  



5. Drew .. No. Really. It’s all out in the open. If I can find the transcript or contact the BBC it would be clear. They insist, in fact it’s mandatory, that they have the right to see everything before construction starts or contracts are even signed. Scary.

   Posted by peiper       02/04/2011  at  04:10 PM  

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