Tag lines are the statement underneath the companies name. So, what should ours be?

This is to be a brainstorm list. It can be anything and we can trim later.

Here’s some:

Saving the world from itself.

The Clearinghouse for China Products

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One feature we can have is periodic (or on-going) polls for site visitors.

A couple that come to mind:

China products I am most concerned about are:

Food

Automotive components

Children’s toys

Clothing

Electrical components

Everything

Another,

My biggest concern about China is:

Unfair labor practices

What they’re doing to the environment

Lack of product safety testing

We need to keep adding to the list. The purpose is to make the site user interactive.

China’s a great country and the people are great people but… What they do and how they do it affects us and not always for the better. The people of the world need to bring light on to the problems they are causing not only for us but for themselves. In an interconnected, globalized world, what they do to their environment affects us. What they don’t do for product safety affects us.

One could say that China not having meaningful worker protections doesn’t affect other countries but even that is wrong. If a company gets a cost advantage because they can run a sweat shop due to lax or corrupt governmental oversight then they will put out of business our companies that have to play by different, what our society believes are legitimate and right, rules.

We, the people of this planet, need to say what rules we hold as a minimum.

This is a sight dedicated to shining the light on some dark corners of this planet because we are all tied together. As commentator Tom Friedman points out, The World is Flat.

I guess file this under – the best defense is a good offense. Lets call into questions the other guy’s stuff so people won’t look at how and what China is producing.

Li Yuanping, a senior inspector of food imports and exports, blamed the media for exaggerating China’s problems, and blamed the USA for lax procedures that allow U.S. firms to take imports from Chinese firms that are not officially approved by Beijing.

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Wei Chuanzhong, deputy head of China’s quality and inspection bureau, admitted that two Chinese companies had mislabeled exports of an industrial chemical as a medical ingredient.

Oops…

Consumers though, if they wanted to be more diligent, have trouble with the current system. We often don’t know where things came from or if it is stated on the label, we don’t know where the components came from. In a global supply chain, production items could come from many countries. Tracking which one(s) caused the problem is hard but how are we as consumers supposed to know. If you look at the label for food for your pet, you can’t tell if some of the ingredients came from China or some other problem source. This is why errant companies can get away with poisoning us. Their chances for getting caught are very low.