That’s the spirit: support European businesses not Chinese ones
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December 20, 2013 at 9:39am
There are exceptions, of course, when the things you might want or need are typical of China. But in general, by putting your money China’s way rather than Europe’s, you’re weakening your own and strengthening the enemy.
And yes, China – the state, not the people – is the enemy of Europe: it embodies the antithesis of quintessentially European values and is now using its industrial might and its financial clout to take over those parts of the free west that it can buy up, including politicians and their decisions.
Here’s a small bit of rebellion in a shoe shop in St John’s Square, Valletta.
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Sometimes, less is more.
Bravo!
What an example to follow ! More of the same .
What does the Yi Xue Life Cultivation Malta Association do? Does anyone remember seeing them featured on Xarabank to justify why everyone should dig deep in his pocket and donate to support this association? They seem to have benefited in 2012 as well yet most people have not heard of them.
Are Maltese charities audited and are reports showing what percentage of donations is spent on overheads rather than the intended beneficiaries?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20131219/local/l-istrina-beneficiaries-announced.499719#.UrQOY_RDt8E
What’s the name of the shop? Good on them for taking pride in selling (relatively) local.
You cannot be more right. It is by now evidently clear that the Chinese have ‘launched’ their ‘invade the west’ campaign, logically not with conventional warfare but with a probably more dangerous means and a western creation – finance.
We have our own nice example in Malta, i.e they have infiltrated the energy monopoly and by the looks of it we have a government very eager to let them into anything without much consideration and deliberation.
It is a great pity that European consumers are ready to kill their own nations in this manner. I could write a volume but suffice it to say that as we write on the matter former glorious European industries are being taken over and masses of Chinese shifted to Europe, working and living in the the same conditions they do back in China, and the products are rolled out with a beautiful “Made in Italy” label.
Not a single penny going to any italian worker.
And our government is proposing to sell our passport with full voting rights to Chinese people.
I hate to be a grammar Nazi, but I’m pretty sure they meant “Nothing in here is made in China”
I never buy a pair of shoes, clothing or whatever if it is made in China. I don’t care. I might end up spending more but I cannot give my money to industries which are hell-bent on making the lives of their workers hell and the lives of European extinct.
Ultimately, however, China has power now. Economic power which it is transforming in political power because greedy Europeans and multinationals have decided to shift their production to China. This is the result: almost absolutely political and economic power in the hands of the world’s most unscrupulous. Well done indeed West. Your greed has screwed you.
That’s the way. Let’s fight back. We’ll still lose, but we’ll have raised two fingers to the Middle Kingdom.
By the way, I would love to say the name of the shop. It is a very good shop with extremely helpful shopkeepers. I’m a satisfied customer of theirs.
[Daphne – Go ahead and say it. I can’t because I don’t have it.]
Well it is obviously a shoe shop. Italy and Spain, especially Spain, are something of a hidden jewel in European leatherworking.
I have always wondered how long it would take business to understand that there are many people like myself who go to great lengths to buy products made in democracies, preferably European or even better, Southern European.
Made in USA and Made in Germany are such big selling points that I cannot for the life of me wonder why the EU has not yet done it.
Thank you for bringing this up, Daphne.
Some people insist on buying cheaper Chinese goods, without sparing a thought of what this entails.
Let’s start with the political considerations.
Does one really want to support an oppressive regime that has invaded and subjugated a peaceful nation, Tibet?
Does one wish to support a country that had till recently harassed mothers to abort second or third pregnancies?
But apart from the political considerations, one should also consider the economic fallout of this purchasing decision.
Take a chap recently laid off when the German company he worked for was forced out of business by Chinese competition using dirt cheap labour with no labour laws, no R & D, and far fewer overheads.
So what, you may ask. Shouldn’t the rule of survival of the cheapest/fittest hold here to? Doesn’t the market sort itself out?
What few understand is the spinoff effect of this choice. You save a few euros and put thousands of out of work in Europe. Most of the money you spend goes to China and is not funneled back into the European economy. The people who have lost their jobs are not spending either, putting more people out of work.
Fewer people travel, and fewer come to Malta on holiday.
So next time you consider a cheaper, possibly inferior, Chinese product, think of what this choice may mean.
Now go and repeat that to your MEP. Because none of them gives a toss. All they want is more free trade worldwide.
@ H.P.,
Most are too busy viciously elbowing each other in their haste to board, and once there, to hold on to their place on the gravy train. The only trade they are interested in is the one that involves them making a fact finding mission to somewhere exotic.
This gets the sad but true award of the day. You forgot to mention that another obstacle is the already well-established ‘Made in…’ labels in Western Europe that some countries would not want to give up. Perhaps they could co-exist with the ‘Made in the EU’ sign?
However, if you need a washing machine, a refrigetaror, a vacuum cleaner, a toaster, or any other appliance, I would dare anyone to tell me that it is NOT MADE IN CHINA
Careful these days. The Italians have laid bare the facts nowadays. It could be Made In Europe by the Chinese like those one million clothing items made by the chinese in Italy, exported to China where they sell under “Made In Italy” labels and are driving the Italian businessmen in China out of business. This is one of the main reasons so many factories in the textile and clothing industry in Italy are going bang against the wall.