12th Michigan Congressional District Representative Sander Levin is out with an op-ed in the Detroit Free Press. In it he notes: China gives its manufacturers whatever advantage it can over U.S. and other foreign competitors. China provides massive loans at below-market interest rates, cheap or free land, extensive tax breaks and other subsidies in its […]

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Detroit News is out with a report about a car manufacturer in China that has copied the popular Ford F-150 pick-up truck design right down to Ford’s iconic blue oval logo. As the article points out, Legally, Ford may have a difficult time winning any damages against the state-owned carmaker, experts say. “Suing in China […]

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The next time you buy an Apple product, know that they COULD do something about work place conditions in the manufacturers in China. Manufacturers that have huge employee suicide numbers and what some have called inhumane working conditions. But Apple has chosen to play Pontius Pilate and wash their hands. Here, law professor Bill Black […]

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Henry Blodgett is out with a summary of the labor practices of the Chinese company that builds Apple iPhones and iPads. what would be illegal labor practices if done in the US are the standard in China. And Apple either knows this or chooses not to know it but the truth is the truth. Iphones […]

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Bloomberg is out with a report China-Based Hacking of 760 Companies Shows Cyber Cold War that shows China is going after more than natural targets for industrial espionage but all possibilities. China has been in the technology theft business for decade(s) because they have trouble naturally creating/innovating. Its against their culture. What ‘free market’ advocates […]

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The signs are becoming more obvious to the outside world which means the actual situation is worse or has been festering longer than outside observers have realized (and inside observers wanted to deny). From the report, A short drive from the city of Yan’an, a 100-yard elevated section of that highway stands dormant with nothing […]

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Mish Shedlock is out with a blog that strings together several threads from vacant amusement park developments to collapsing residential prices in major cities. He discusses the impact on world commodity prices of a bursting property bubble but what he doesn’t get into is why there was a property bubble. Some of it was the […]

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Janet Tavikoli: Timing China’s Financial Meltdown

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Bloomberg is out with a report on a Pentagon investigation of fake parts on US military aircraft. See China Counterfeit Parts in U.S. Military Boeing, L3 Aircraft. Lets just look at a couple quotes – unfortunately several paragraphs apart: China supports the fight against counterfeit goods, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said at a […]

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The Wall Street Journal is out with a story about the property bubble starting to burst in Shanghai, China. See Shanghai Homeowners Smash Showroom in Protest Over Falling Prices. This is part of a bigger problem. As a country it does not provide a social safety net (as in, if you show up to a […]

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