7 posts tagged “china”

All they have to do is keep sending dangerous products to the US for us to kill ourselves with. If you think that anti-freeze in toothpaste and lead-based paint on toy trains is it, are you ever in for an eye-opening session on Who Sucks. With a list like that, only morons would buy any Chinese-made product in the first iteration of its existence. Of course, the real question is how we can get Al Queda to buy and use these products on themselves! 

This is not a matter of "if," only of "when" this will happen. Economic data coming from McKinsey (via Research Briefs) predicts a growing and vibrant economy with increasing wealth for Chinese citizens. One they reach a critical point, their mass-driven economy will race right past the US like we are standing still.

So, what is our government doing about this? Certainly not talking about it. Certainly not making plans to do something meaningful. All the Washington yokels want to do is divert attention with such bogus things as illegal immigration - something very easy to sell to the masses who are used to being led around by their collective noses. By the time they wake up and smell the coffee, they will be working for CHinese firms.

So, start learning Chinese and make sure your kids and grandkids start speaking Chinese at a very young age.

Yippee-skippee! At least China has the guts to help Chinese consumers out by adopting a single standard for cell phone charger hookups by going with the mini-USB. Word up, China, way to go. Now if we could get congress to actually do something useful, maybe this would be a good thing to follow-on. Better yet, if the cell phone companies cared one wit about their customers elsewhere, they could all make the shift - voluntarily. I am not holding my breath. 

Neatorama has a bit on China's 6 million square feet mall -and a soon-to-be mall that will be 3X the Mall of the Americas. Now that is some real estate. Six football fields long, about 1.5X the square footage of the Pentagon - five stories tall. Thousands of shops and you will need something to get you around - maybe roller skates (they do still use those in the Pentagon, don't they?). 

Semi-sorta old news as Home Depot agrees to buy Home Way, China's first big box hiome improvement stores. Direct Marketing has the story. 

According to BizReport, the biggest fad in China is the Hate Wall where Chinese can get it off their chests online and relieve stress. There are several such sites there.

DRNO (Doctor No?) indicates that AC Nielsen says the Chinese car marketing is changing as the buyers become tuned in to the product. Especially important is that Chinese women are responsible for 13% of purchases.