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Default Do you care where your tools are manufactured?

John Horner wrote:
Brian Henderson wrote:
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:11:20 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

Bingo, it's an individual conscience thing, and not a basis for
condemning the whole nation of China. If there were universal
consensus that it was absolutely wrong then things might be
different, but there isn't.


Besides the fact that it isn't the Chinese companies that are
forcing
abortion on anyone, it's the government which has nothing
whatsoever
to do with the quality of the tools their companies put out.


The majority of Chinese companies are in fact owned by the
government.


You might want to check again. While China is nominally Communist
they have in fact recognized that Taiwan and British Hong Kong were
eating their lunch and so they have implemented a number of free trade
zones that work on a capitalistic system.

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