The Olympics did appear to change China: Their human rights record is even worse

[Bluebear]

If you can believe it. As long as they buy our debt and then send back cheap stuff for everyone to buy, few will complain. AFP:

China's human rights record worsened last year as authorities increased harassment of activists and repression in the Xinjiang region, the US State Department said Thursday.

"The government's human rights record remained poor and worsened in some areas," the annual report by the State Department said.

It said Beijing "increased the severe cultural and religious repression of ethnic minorities" in Xinjiang, the western region that last year saw deadly clashes between China's Han majority and the local Uighur people.

The State Department said China "continued to repress Uighurs expressing peaceful political dissent and independent Muslim religious leaders," by trying to associate the predominantly Muslim people with terrorism.


http://www.americablog.com/2010/03/olympics-did-appear-to-change-china.html

[liberal N proud]

1. Check this out

A spark plug manufacture in China...

http://homepage.mac.com/greystoke.eng/.Public/China-SparkPlug.pps

[Mopar151]

2. Sad to say

I've worked in American shops that looked about as bad.

[madrchsod]

3. where my daughter works they bought parts from india....

rat shit,dead bugs in the boxes.my daughter caught a nasty skin rash from handling some of the boxes. out of spec,dirty,and the worse of all blood on the parts....i wonder why someone bled all over the parts. the bloody parts were treated as a bio-hazard and had to wash the parts in clorox solution. the company dropped the supplier.

[Mopar151]

4. No big surprise, is there?

Just my opinion - but a fair number of companies that have sent work to China have done so because this is how the oligarchy deals with labor problems there. I beleive they long for the days when we did that here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Mine_War_of_1912-1913

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Matewan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_the_Overpass