BBC: "The West says China makes too much. Its workers disagree"

[DrLeftover]

Ren Wenbing is reluctant to leave the hollowed-out brick shell which was once a thriving factory in China's manufacturing hub of Dongguan.

"All the workers feel astonished," says the 54-year-old as he points out where he once assembled furniture and where everyone would gather to eat lunch.

The owner of the company has moved production to South East Asia to cut costs. Mr Ren says he is owed more than 80,000 RMB ($11,000; £8,800) in redundancy pay, which could take him years to earn.

"We are disappointed, and we grieve," he adds, as a machine takes a sledgehammer to the windows.

The West says China makes too much. Its workers disagree

Migrants are caught in China's manufacturing battles with the West, as Beijing tries to save its economy.

www.bbc.com

Pardon me while I sit here less than two miles from a couple of closed factories and laugh my ass off.

 

[NeoMetallix]

If there really was a war with China, the whole world would be screwed. The United States because almost all of our medical supplies come from there but also almost all of everything else is from there. We would have no means of picking up the slack.

Meanwhile China would be devastated because they would lose so much income that their economy would probably collapse.

Not to mention the rest of the world.

 

[MrDawn]

Pardon me while I sit here less than two miles from a couple of closed factories and laugh my ass off.

What is with these people? I didn't think anyone in any Communist country made "too much" when compared to America.