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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/13/china.
BEIJING, China (AP) -- A bridge under construction as a tourist attraction in central China collapsed, killing at least 22 people and leaving 46 missing.
Construction accidents in China are frequent, with contractors often opting for shoddy materials to cut costs and using migrant laborers with little or no safety training. Most of the people working on the bridge were local farmers, the agency said.
so toys, pet food, food, toothpaste, and now construction jobs. pretty soon every ceo not put in place by the commies will be offing themselves.
BEIJING, China (AP) -- A bridge under construction as a tourist attraction in central China collapsed, killing at least 22 people and leaving 46 missing.
Construction accidents in China are frequent, with contractors often opting for shoddy materials to cut costs and using migrant laborers with little or no safety training. Most of the people working on the bridge were local farmers, the agency said.
so toys, pet food, food, toothpaste, and now construction jobs. pretty soon every ceo not put in place by the commies will be offing themselves.
and ironically, everything is still made in china anyway because US businesses are too cheap to produce the stuff in house.
Citrus wrote:
I don't think any of this stuff is news coming from China. It might be, for people outside of China. Its just that no one really paid attention to China for so long and it was never reported since the government in China controls all of the media. Cover ups, threats of execution, etc. Local Chinese knew of the truths but that's pretty much it. The next closest neutral and independent media/news was in Hong Kong, but even Hong Kong media don't talk about China much, probably don't want to get involved with the Chinese government and affiliates. My friend who was born in Canton said that all they play on TV are patriotic shows and how good the Chinese government is. There's always an eerie feeling about China for me.
From another angle, US might just be launching its propaganda against China to try to dent their economy. It just seems like recently there's a burst of "Bad News in China", but seriously, its been like this for the last 50 years or even thousands of years which was never recorded or displayed to the public.
oskibear wrote:
Well, if the lawsuits end up costing more than the savings in manufacturing, US and European manufactuers could be scared off and China could start losing out to more "expensive" countries until it gets its act together.
You take the population of vehicles in the field (A) and multiply it by the probable rate of failure (B), then multiply the result by the average cost of an out-of-court settlement (C).
A times B times C equals X. This is what it will cost if we don't initiate a recall.
If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the cars and no one gets hurt.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall. 
