China Makes 50% Of Your Stuff. How Many Chinese Brands Can You Actually Name?

China is just today's special. Once they are used up and polluted into sterility, the 1% will move on to another country.

And America is yesterday's special, theLordsDevil. Its funny when people say that manufacturing needs to stay in the US in order to keep the US as powerful as it is. Manufacturing jobs follow low wages. US wages have risen to a point at which it makes more sense to manufacture in China and ship it to the US. Once China's wages come up too high (will likely take a while because they have a LOT of people so poor they're willing to work for near nothing) capitalism says manufacturing will move to another country, likely India. India's population boom has it poised to have an excess of people with a shortage of jobs. This breeds the perfect circumstances for cheap manufacturing jobs to move in.

There aren't any Chinese manufacturers exporting to us large scale. Everything is Made In America at Wal-Mart!!

I have a real problem with that particular DELIBERATE LIE TO AMERICA; where the scumbags told the lie for more than 2 years on national tv, and then when they got caught in the lie they just paid the government to say the years of false advertising were kosher because the government had been paid to make the phrase MADE IN AMERICA ABSOLUTELY MEANINGLESS.

And supermarkets and clothiers and the like-fell like dominoes across the nation, destroying generations of dedicated work by a great many American employees; and just plain crushing American business owners. And then the crush naturally grew and began destroying the American manufacturers who were by then fully aware that the last thing they wanted to put on their products is 'made in Amerika'. Because of the products made by those that are allowed to STEAL OUR NATIONAL SEAL OF QUALITY being so much lower in both quality and price.

And so yet another reason that points to actual traitors to this country in our highest offices--undermining of our manufacturing base. And now they are allowing the Chinese to knock off Boeing jets.

No, I don't have a problem with China. They are only doing what they are being allowed to do. Many of their products work great for me, but many, many more are completely substandard for use in this country even though they may look like our stuff. Some of it can easily get you hurt or killed if you try to act like you can depend on the item when it counts.

Whe shouldn`t underestimate US exports

1 EU exports (External): 2.13 Trillion Dollars
2 China exports: 1.9 Trillion Dollars
3 US exports: 1.49 Trillion Dollars

@quasi44

"Allowed to do"? I don't think the Chinese needs your permission to do anything, Mr. Master of the Universe.

I always prefer to pay less for a product. And these Chinese products are sold to us by "USA companies". When the market is down in sales a company will use any sales gimmick to get us to buy the product, including guilt, "BUY AMERICA" at the same time, this same company will sell Chinese products too.

"Whe shouldn`t underestimate US exports"

And, per capita:

1 US exports: $4745/person
2 EU exports (External): $2882
3 China exports: $1414

The 50% of my stuff is junk, made by prisoners without any OSHA or EPA rules and will break soon.

More than 50% of my stuff is made in China. A brand name does not identify where it is made.
Most Japanese brands like Samsung are made in china, and so are American brands like Apple.
Almost all electronic hardware is made in China.
Its amazing how ignorant consumers are.