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In reply to the discussion: Whoever believes "American jobs for Americans" is racist should give up their jobs now [View all]HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)For example, nearly all of the Chinese electronics entering the US are wholly-owned not by Chinese companies, but by non-chinese ones, a lot of them American.
Now what kind of weird trade war is this, where the slave-labor-produced products of american corporations are imported into the US?
"We" are in a war with "us". There's no war but the class war.
In addition, the analysis on the ownership of the firms exporting high-tech products
shows that, foreign invested firms accounted for 83% of Chinas high-tech exports; in
particular wholly foreign owned firms dominated the sector and made up 68%.
Therefore, it is foreign direct investment (FDI) and outsourcing activities of
multinational enterprises (MNE) that transformed China into a world high-tech
assembling factory.
http://r-center.grips.ac.jp/gallery/docs/11-05.pdf
Third, most exports of electronic and information technology products are assembled not by chinese-owned firms but by foreign firms that are using china as an export platform...Taiwan dominates.. ...In 2003, for example, foreign firms accounted for 92% of china's...exports of computers...74% of china's exports of electronics...
http://books.google.com/books?id=rowVguhQr4IC&pg=PA133&dq=percent+of+chinese+electronics+exports+wholly-owned+foreign&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zSS2T-fkDYSPiALB_NTPBg&ved=0CEoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=percent%20of%20chinese%20electronics%20exports%20wholly-owned%20foreign&f=false
For the ipod, china provides the workers for a taiwanese corp that assembles the american-branded product to sell in the US.