To demonize China is to miss the point of what it means to be in a market-driven global economy. Only after nearly going bankrupt and needing huge federal assistance programs are American automakers finally building small cars. Like a drug they were addicted to, American auto manufacturers could forever build larger cars and trucks, even originating Sport utility Vehicles (SUVs) as a category, and never pay attention to fuel economy or cost of ownership. With GM nearly bankrupt it looks as if their SUV addiction is finally being broken. But it took a full-scale intervention, the magnitude the U.S. has not seen since the Great Depression, to wake these companies up and make them market-driven. Is China to blame because GM refused to pay attention to the need to be more environmentally focused in their product designs? No. The free fall of American wages in the auto industry rest squarely in the ands of the CEOs of those companies who completely missed market signals telling them to change. Second, on the issue of apparel and electronics manufacturers in the U.S. being driven to cut prices by Wal-Mart and leading in turn to that retailer being demonized are also inaccurate. Wal-mart is not a government administration, it is not part of a bail-out program. It is a business that must stay profitable for well over 100,000 people to keep their jobs. They are a profit-making entity. Suppliers who hope to sell through Wal-mart realize they are the low-price leader. This is not news to anyone who lives in the U.S., where their ads on television continually. Manufacturers and suppliers who choose to sell to Wal-mart have got to expect price pressure. It is a choice they make. Wal-Mart can find lower prices to source their products in China, and that is their choice. To become protectionist over...
yet to see this as a call to be more competitive on a global scale is to get the point. The U.S. has to quite being such a nanny to these corporations who refuse to see that they must change -- sometimes radically -- to survive.
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