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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 30. November | 79 comments (79 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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My God, even China has to race to the bottom now. Is there a lesson there?

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Sun Nov 30th, 2008 at 07:01:27 AM EST
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If there's any lesson here, it should be: in a race to the bottom, you're always bound to loose out at the end, even if you're the most populous country on Earth with a seemingly bottomless labor pool.

Heard the same thing about electronics sub-contracting, BTW: Taiwanese ODM moving manufacturing from the coastal provinces of Mainland China to "cheaper" destinations; the current favorite: Vietnam.

Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.

by Bernard on Sun Nov 30th, 2008 at 10:35:10 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 30. November | 79 comments (79 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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