Genesis
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China America trade rivalry has been going on for a while, recently there are talks of how "unfair" it is that China is prosecuting American companies. The truth is far from it.
China is prosecuting American companies, but are the charges unjust? No, Chinese prosecutors are lawyers, the same as American prosecutors, and let's face it, Americans are not known to take injustice laying down.
Examples of our media crackdown on Starbucks, KFC, and Apple are not only right, but a few countries are questioning why their country is not doing the same. Starbucks sells coffee at a price higher than in America, even though it's cost is lower. Apple have no same day release, it's policies are discriminatory to Chinese people, in the sense that Americans can return their iPhones, Chinese can't, and we are not even talking about the service stations, the extra cost, and more. KFC sent China poisonous food, ok, no one actually tried to defend that one. Except that China has poisonous food, and that somehow justifies American companies.
Defenders of these companies will point to Chinese don't have to buy them at that price or service. Both are valid points, until we look at the American media on Chinese products. Some Chinese products, indeed sucks, but why? Americans pushed their margin down so low that without cutting corners they be losing money. By the same logic Americans have no leg to stand on, if you don't like the quality, pay more. It's that simple.
Both side are getting vicious in the attacks on the other, but being American soft power extents to every corner of the globe, most believe Americans have the moral high ground. In fact they don't. They are actually worse. iPhones and Frappachinos are overpriced by the American CEOs, but Chinese product quality are more or less signed off by the same CEOs. They can claim they didn't know, but they must know that the price they negotiated is too low and the factory cannot make money doing this. This is also 2015, what did they think is going to happen.
There's also the argument we don't have to do it, that's an interesting proposition, until you worked in sales and actually know how difficult it is to sell something and unless something very wrong happens, you don't let go of a client, ever.
One, two, three, four, so it starts a trade war. We will always be on opposite sides, but any Americans think we are insane and nationalistic. Just go to any such articles on an American site and see the hate flow.
In the end, I will say, we are both right and both wrong. We are both right in that we are looking out for our own interests and telling what our people want to hear, but we are also wrong, because in this capitalist society, there can be no two tigers on one mountain, no two Mayweathers in one Ring, and no two Clintons in one white house, and if you do, brains are going on the wall. When it does, at least know, it's just business.
China is prosecuting American companies, but are the charges unjust? No, Chinese prosecutors are lawyers, the same as American prosecutors, and let's face it, Americans are not known to take injustice laying down.
Examples of our media crackdown on Starbucks, KFC, and Apple are not only right, but a few countries are questioning why their country is not doing the same. Starbucks sells coffee at a price higher than in America, even though it's cost is lower. Apple have no same day release, it's policies are discriminatory to Chinese people, in the sense that Americans can return their iPhones, Chinese can't, and we are not even talking about the service stations, the extra cost, and more. KFC sent China poisonous food, ok, no one actually tried to defend that one. Except that China has poisonous food, and that somehow justifies American companies.
Defenders of these companies will point to Chinese don't have to buy them at that price or service. Both are valid points, until we look at the American media on Chinese products. Some Chinese products, indeed sucks, but why? Americans pushed their margin down so low that without cutting corners they be losing money. By the same logic Americans have no leg to stand on, if you don't like the quality, pay more. It's that simple.
Both side are getting vicious in the attacks on the other, but being American soft power extents to every corner of the globe, most believe Americans have the moral high ground. In fact they don't. They are actually worse. iPhones and Frappachinos are overpriced by the American CEOs, but Chinese product quality are more or less signed off by the same CEOs. They can claim they didn't know, but they must know that the price they negotiated is too low and the factory cannot make money doing this. This is also 2015, what did they think is going to happen.
There's also the argument we don't have to do it, that's an interesting proposition, until you worked in sales and actually know how difficult it is to sell something and unless something very wrong happens, you don't let go of a client, ever.
One, two, three, four, so it starts a trade war. We will always be on opposite sides, but any Americans think we are insane and nationalistic. Just go to any such articles on an American site and see the hate flow.
In the end, I will say, we are both right and both wrong. We are both right in that we are looking out for our own interests and telling what our people want to hear, but we are also wrong, because in this capitalist society, there can be no two tigers on one mountain, no two Mayweathers in one Ring, and no two Clintons in one white house, and if you do, brains are going on the wall. When it does, at least know, it's just business.
