Another from China

From that you'll get that the 4cyl Cummins made in China will go into these Utes, American and I would presume some Australian Trucks would have US manufactured Engines, and when I say the word Truck I mean a TRUCK.

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Yeh, I hate me shirt, my socks, Jeans, and ...and....and...me undies.

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........ & your Garmin?

Hi

The Garmin I have was made in Taiwan...though the battery was made in Korea and 'finished in China". There is no escaping the fact. Wouldnt worry about it too much myself, there are good and bad things produce in all countries. So what if the subject of the day involves a chinese made product?

Cheers
Greg

Since when did you wear UNDIES DOUG?


Grrr!!!

Boobook is on the money, like it or not.

Why would you want to buy anything made by a fool?
If they can't make a decent engine, then simply move on (or do you have shares in Nissan?)

You remind me of some Freo Dockers supporters I saw at a game who were booing their team when they missed for goal.

Cheers
Alan

Michael

That is a good dall
What about a Duramax 6.5 TD V8. ?
They are a proven Diesel

Cheerss
Bucky

Sorry about the spelling ..... it is early

I agree , and will probably be there quicker than japan

That's right, but wait til you have to business in India!

...They are copiers and not designers....

If that's all it takes, why don't WE do it, and have all the world buy Aussie made?

Wilko, to put your thinking straight, read here if you trust this source (also read the published comments):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12885271

cheers, Peter

Why don't we do it.

because, our government will not massivly subsidise manufacturing, our workers expect to be paid more than a bowl of rice a day and our companies will not work on 3% profit margins.

cheers

And we have a quaint little thing called respect for human life, which manifests into a thing called occupational safety & health, about which the Chinese have not the faintest notion.

Someone gets killed in a Chinese workplace - oh well there's plenty more where he came from.

Unfortunately that's overwhelmingly their attitude.

Not quite right.

Last year, the wife and I took a holiday in China for six weeks, enjoyed meeting ordinary workers and people.

Found the people very, very friendly. Wanting to learn English and very respectful to us "oldies."

While we were there. The worker at iPad and Honda went on strike for a pay rise and better working conditions.

The newspapers reported daily on them, including the reason for the strike. Apparently a worker had committed suicide at iPad over the conditions.

There Minister for Industry backed the workers 100% and they got the raise they where looking for.

China and it's people are advancing at a rate that would simply stagger us.

Opposite the hotel where we were staying at, there was another protest going on about the fact that the government wanted to trash all the old buildings in the street and build new apartments.

The locals were argueing that the city was developing too fast and not keeping any heritage.

Also while we there, the Minister for Industry came on TV and was telling everyone that there manufacturing industry had to lift it's game, put out of business the small shonky operations. etc. (Quote:_ It is no use copying a product and copying there mistakes. We have to make it better.)

I know of a couple of business here that deal with the Chinese in a large way. They have told me that when they go to China to view and choose the products that they want to import, they are usually shown Five grades of product. From crap to excellent.

Most Australian importers choose grade 2, that's one above crap, or at best grade 3.

Don't blame the Chinese, blame our greedy importers.

KenM

Hi Wilko,

A longer view of history reveals that the Chinese discovered/invented many of the things that we in the "civilised" west have taken most of the credit for. While Britain was still occupied by the Romans 2000 years ago the Chinese had, among other things an astronomical clock, antimalaria drugs, ball bearings, blast furnces, briquettes made from coal dust and the list goes on. These ideas slowly made their way west via the trade routes that brought tea, silk and spices to Europe.

Who copied ideas from who? Depends on the timescale that you look at.

For a fascinating account of how we learned about early Chinese ideas and discoveries get hold of Simon Winchesters book "The Man Who Loved China".

Cheers,

Val