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China faces more scrutiny from the West over its aggressive export practices — overcapacity and huge subsidies. (www.dw.com)

submitted 7 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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Chinese firms can often undercut their Western counterparts for many reasons, including cheaper labor and economies of scale. But they also benefit from very generous state incentives, which help to make foreign rivals uncompetitive.

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager described China's playbook for dominating green-energy sectors during a speech at Princeton University this week. Noting how China first attracts foreign investment through joint ventures, she said the country was "not always above board" in the way it acquired green technological know-how. China then closed its own market to foreign firms before exporting excess capacity to the rest of the world at low, subsidized prices, she says.

"We should prepared to play hardball with China," says Rolf Langhammer, former vice president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW-Kiel).. "For electric cars and green technology, the US and EU are the most important foreign markets, and the Chinese need access."

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[–] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

You don't need to read the article to know the capitalist "solution" for the growth and exportation of Chinese products like EVs or something else consists into implementing higher punishment tariffs, just a way to keep the capitalist boat a float while they play in the intelligence field the real war.

The main question it's if the massive propaganda social media system can effectively gaslight the population from realizing the failure of the capitalist economic system.

Edit: I think it depends in what it's actually the definition of modern slavery cos if you ask me in the west capitalists systems there are 99% of the population into modern slavery.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 12 points 7 months ago

Are you seriously trying to redefine slavery just to defend a murderous dictatorship?

[–] tardigrada@beehaw.org 11 points 7 months ago

As you don't like reading, watch a documentary.

Forced Labour - SOS from a Chinese Prisoner

A desperate cry for help written in Chinese was discovered in a pregnancy test sold in France and made in a Chinese factory. It revealed a hidden world of Chinese prison-companies where prisoners are forced to work for 15 hour days manufacturing products for export. This documentary tries to find out who wrote the letter.

[–] 0x815@feddit.de 6 points 7 months ago

@PoliticallyIncorrect

in the west capitalist systems there are 99% of the population into modern slavery.

It would be helpful if you posted a source for that claim. Where did you get that?

For China, I have one regarding North Korean workers in Chinese seafood processing.

The workers, all of whom are women, described conditions of confinement and violence at the plants. Workers are held in compounds, sometimes behind barbed wire, under the watch of security agents. Many work gruelling shifts and get at most one day off a month. Several described being beaten by the managers sent by North Korea to watch them. “It was like prison for me,” one woman said. “At first, I almost vomited at how bad it was, and, just when I got used to it, the supervisors would tell us to shut up, and curse if we talked.”

Many described enduring sexual assault at the hands of their managers. “They would say I’m fuckable and then suddenly grab my body and grope my breasts and put their dirty mouth on mine and be disgusting,” a woman who did product transport at a plant in the city of Dalian said. Another, who worked at Jinhui, said, “The worst and saddest moment was when I was forced to have sexual relations when we were brought to a party with alcohol.” The workers described being kept at the factories against their will, and being threatened with severe punishment if they tried to escape. A woman who was at a factory called Dalian Haiqing Food for more than four years said, “It’s often emphasized that, if you are caught running away, you will be killed without a trace.”

You'd find a lot more.