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Friday, September 07, 2007
In conjunction with the previous article. This article also concerns China's developement into a first world country. However, the difference in this article is that this does not concern Chinese products but the presense of chinese businesses in Africa.
As you all know Africa has been plagued with inner turmoil with civil wars, famine, wide spread of diseases and have been at the mercy of western powers. However, know the africans have been able to pull up their socks attracting investors from other countries but a problem they all faced was that these foreign investors who invested in Africa have been making use of the abundant resources in Africa such as oil and the like.
In this article, the Africans are quite happy that China has gone in to invest and has helped create numerous jobs for their people who are now able to earn money for their family. However, the key point in the article was, would China become something like the western powers who robbed Africa of its resources or was it actually helping Africa. Let me begin by explaining this point, chinese mines in africa although having created jobs for the locals there has had a certain down side, that being that these workers in chinese mines are being paid much less than those working in other mines. This led them to think, was China another world power who was taking advantage of Africa for her own good?
I believe that China although having invested in Africa has a some good for the africans, is actually meant to help China develope not so much Africa. After all, isn't it the survival of the strongest,in this case China having done whatever it has done for the good of the country. However, this investments has also a bright side for the africans as there is an increase in jobs and hopefully a brighter future, but this may all be the side effects of the investments.
As you all know Africa has been plagued with inner turmoil with civil wars, famine, wide spread of diseases and have been at the mercy of western powers. However, know the africans have been able to pull up their socks attracting investors from other countries but a problem they all faced was that these foreign investors who invested in Africa have been making use of the abundant resources in Africa such as oil and the like.
In this article, the Africans are quite happy that China has gone in to invest and has helped create numerous jobs for their people who are now able to earn money for their family. However, the key point in the article was, would China become something like the western powers who robbed Africa of its resources or was it actually helping Africa. Let me begin by explaining this point, chinese mines in africa although having created jobs for the locals there has had a certain down side, that being that these workers in chinese mines are being paid much less than those working in other mines. This led them to think, was China another world power who was taking advantage of Africa for her own good?
I believe that China although having invested in Africa has a some good for the africans, is actually meant to help China develope not so much Africa. After all, isn't it the survival of the strongest,in this case China having done whatever it has done for the good of the country. However, this investments has also a bright side for the africans as there is an increase in jobs and hopefully a brighter future, but this may all be the side effects of the investments.
LIVING.out.of.REALITY;
7:20 AM
This article is regarding the recent discovery of defects of chinese goods which may be harmful to us humans. As you all know China is a developing country developing at a very fast pace. With this comes the export of chinese made goods be it food products, toys and even clothes. China is already the biggest exporter to the US and this has caused many US firms to complain against this.
But this is not the point. This article states that a boy's shirt burst into flames when he and his mum were walking down the street one day. This is indeed shocking as has anyone ever encountered such a thing where a shirt would burst into flames without even contacting fire? This shirt was made in China. Bring us back to the point, China although being a place for relatively cheap labour and production cost has one down side that is the qualities of its products. Let me give you an example, previous to this there was a case where there was a high quantity of lead found in some toys made in China from the brand mattel. This has caused fears in the many governements of the world that China products which are exported to almost every country may affect their citizens, and thus forced them to ban these chinese products. This in turn would affect China's economy and the reputation of China which is slowly developing.
To sum this up, China should give concern to the qualities of their products as if they are not able to ensure good quality in their products, many other countries would ban their products altogether and this in turn would affect China's developement.
But this is not the point. This article states that a boy's shirt burst into flames when he and his mum were walking down the street one day. This is indeed shocking as has anyone ever encountered such a thing where a shirt would burst into flames without even contacting fire? This shirt was made in China. Bring us back to the point, China although being a place for relatively cheap labour and production cost has one down side that is the qualities of its products. Let me give you an example, previous to this there was a case where there was a high quantity of lead found in some toys made in China from the brand mattel. This has caused fears in the many governements of the world that China products which are exported to almost every country may affect their citizens, and thus forced them to ban these chinese products. This in turn would affect China's economy and the reputation of China which is slowly developing.
To sum this up, China should give concern to the qualities of their products as if they are not able to ensure good quality in their products, many other countries would ban their products altogether and this in turn would affect China's developement.
LIVING.out.of.REALITY;
7:06 AM
