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[Varche]

We have a weekly Group Skype. One guy stunned us by announcing his household is now boycotting Chinese goods. We all had a good laugh and wished him luck as everything comes from China one way or another. He is however serious. Not because of the China Virus but because of their human rights record and not signing up to cutting use of coal to name two things. His view is governments ought to do more but people can do more.

We have some good Spanish friends who never knowingly buy Chinese and have done so for years. A sort of buy Spanish campaign like our faded buy British campaign.

Anyone else following boycotting Chinese goods? If so how are you managing?

[dave the builder]

I had a chow mien n chips Friday 

[Nick W]

We have a weekly Group Skype. One guy stunned us by announcing his household is now boycotting Chinese goods. We all had a good laugh and wished him luck as everything comes from China one way or another. He is however serious. Not because of the China Virus but because of their human rights record and not signing up to cutting use of coal to name two things. His view is governments ought to do more but people can do more.

We have some good Spanish friends who never knowingly buy Chinese and have done so for years. A sort of buy Spanish campaign like our faded buy British campaign.

Anyone else following boycotting Chinese goods? If so how are you managing?

They won't have internet access in their caves, so won't get this message.
Try a smoke signal, but ensure you use English wood and blanket

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I do try to avoid Chinese made goods , but realise its close to impossible to do it 100%
My reason is simple really. We are giving them the money, and therefore the power to buy / take over the world, and that is what they are slowly doing.
We should try and stop it.

[Doctor Gollum]

I will actively avoid cheap Chinesey tat on ebay etc. Mostly because even if the items work, briefly, they tend not to fit very well or last very long. And returning them costs infinitely more than the original price. You do have to be careful though, because anything that claims to have stock in say, Morpeth, and a business address in Zhenzyong then it is probably shit.

Genuine products produced in controlled environments are a different matter because they tend to do what is asked of them for the longer term... In much the same way as genuine items produced in Europe/US.

And, as Albs has alluded, they're merrily taking over the world one piece of tat at a time. Much the same reason for not having an Amazon account.

[Kevin Wood]

Good luck with that.

The vast majority of semiconductors are from China or Taiwan (not quite China yet, then) so if you want to listen to the wireless in your cave make sure it's an old  valve set.

I sympathise with the sentiment, but the western world has gone way too far down that path to ever turn back now.

[Rangie]

Good luck with that.

The vast majority of semiconductors are from China or Taiwan (not quite China yet, then) so if you want to listen to the wireless in your cave make sure it's an old  valve set.

I sympathise with the sentiment, but the western world has gone way too far down that path to ever turn back now.

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Absolutely spot on this would be a totally pointless exercise, can see the reasoning behind this but as you say far too late.

[Varche]

China becomes single greatest focus for MI6

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

It appears that their latest purchase was the Government of Barbados.
Those people celebrating its Independence might not be feeling so independent, a few years hence. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

I read somewhere recently that the government of Uganda have had to or will have to give up control of Entebbe International Airport after defaulting on loans taken out with China to expand the airport.  The reports have been denied by the Ugandans and the Chinese.... but... 

The Sri Lankan government did have to give up control to the Chinese of a deep water container port built with Chinese money after defaulting on loans.  There's quite a long but interesting read about that here in the New York Times.

So China controls a strategic deep water port in the Indian Ocean which must make India nervous and possibly an expanded airport probably capable of handling the largest military aircraft in East Africa and there are other similar strategic infrastructure built with Chinese money that is now controlled by China after debt defaults all over the world.

Clever bastids eh?    As it says in the bible about the yellow race.... 

[Varche]

Funny thing is we in the West have done similar things but we are viewed as the good guys! Perhaps we have been more subtle

[Nick W]

Funny thing is we in the West have done similar things but we are viewed as the good guys! Perhaps we have been more subtle

There was nothing subtle about the way the British or American empires did it. Britain in particular did so well because they insisted that the profit stayed in Britain, even if that meant exporting finished products back to where the raw material came from.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

As a nipper I would often see 'made in Hong Kong' stamped onto the base of almost everything....

[Varche]

Bang on cue

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59473071

[ronnyd]

The Chinese have been throwing money at Africa for a number of years now. Now it's payback time for these countries who can't meet their obligations. No such thing as a free lunch springs to mind. I try to avoid buying Chinese tat as well, but it's difficult to avoid it.
Added, were they also behind the idea of building an alternative to the Panama canal?