[SpamCop-List] Re: The chinese own spam

[Marjolein Katsma]

Frog Prince (me at privacy.net) wrote in
news:c6vrid$p98$1 at news.spamcop.net: 

>| > In return for support in Iraq the Chinese were given preferential
>| > treatment on imports of woven products.  The only stipulation was
>| > that the twine/string/tread be from US manufactures.  Chinese
>| > government sore that was the deal but when it developed that there
>| > was insufficient production much less export of US made yarn to
>| > support the amounts imported it developed that the Chinese
>| > government was faking the certification.
>|
>| So you're saying the Chinese were being duped by the American
>| government. How's that for "business culture"?
> 
> How did you read that into my comments? Leaving out the political pay
> offs, the trade agreement was, basically, the Chinese got favorable
> treatment on finished woven goods with the clear commitment that the
> woven goods would be made with American produced yarn.

"there was insufficient production much less export of US made yarn to 
support the amounts imported"

Easy to see how they were duped, isn't it? If the quantity of the raw 
product they are supposed to use isn't enough to make up for that 
contract, they were duped into believing it would be enough or they 
wouldn't have accepted that condition.

> The point is that the Chinese do what is best for the Chinese and use
> situation ethics to gain the advantage.

Of course. And the US does differently?

> I'm not taking, so much, about the Chinese culture but of China, Inc.
> which is the face put forward in trade and on the internet.

There are more "faces" on the Internet than you see if all you look at 
is spam. When did you last look at a Chinese website?

> Part is pure greed and part is as you say a product of commercial
> racism. (screw the foreign devils) 

Sounds very much like what western countries and many others are doing. 
Since when was trade intended to benefit the partner?



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