DTRI against China... Again

It's again that topic, BUT I have given you already a light topic to read, so let me be. So I'll do this quick and simple (specially because I'm cooking some fish for lunch), so to get it out of my system.

So here we have China, and China's policies and China's way of doing the things they do. They pretty much keep their population secluded from a lot of information that is completely accesible, free of charge, add to it, for the rest of the planet. They have no access to many social sites most of us can access, and add to it, they can't look for a lot of things we can on the different Internet searchers because their Government consider such information improper. It's almost like they all lived in the office, with no chance of ever getting out of it. Personally, I find it insulting that the Government decides what you can read and what you can't, what's good for you and what's not. It is almost as if no Chinese were an adult, but a nation of children who still have to be closely babysitted, who are not allowed to have their own opinion about anything remotely important.

Normally I would say here that, well, every nation has the Government they deserve, but does anyone, any nation actually deserve to be deprived of adulthood, of the right to chose, decide, form an opinion, as an individual, by itself? But that's me. I guess here the only important question is, are Chinese happy with these measures? Because if they like it, then what would be the damage? Freeing them would be futile, as once they are free they would go back into the same thing. But if they are not happy, then something should be done. What and who are not questions up to me to answer.

Now, back on track. China has been selling their trinkets to the planet, and gotten a lot of devisa and debt from everywhere, to the point that it can posicionate itself as a potential World Power. Lost of goods, fast, at low prices and known all around the world. Of course, not like Chinese products were known to be high quality products, mind you, and even though you may find high quality products (don't ask me, I can't name one), there are so many cheap, five minute goods, that the general opinion is Chinese = risky-goes-bad.

The market is huge, as we all know that, composed of a lot of people, a real lot of people... who, well, are not exactly big spenders because 1. the Chinese culture is more about saving than spending, and 2. they don't have that much money on them. Cheap labor, remember? However, since China is the next U.S.A. (so they say), a lot of companies went there, some for the cheap labor, others to get positioned in this huge market, once it might become bigger spenders with bigger wallets. After all, the general idea is that World Powers are the places where people live the best, right? At least that's the opinion I have about World Power: they are supposed to be a well of wealth.

Anyway, things start happening. They push transnational search engines and companies into their rules. Then they hack them. When the companies complain, said companies are demonized. They go "political" and "don't understand". Dude, really, YOU ATTACKED, YOU ABUSED! How much understanding do you need? But they don't yield.

A report on CNN shows that factories in China are looking for workers but they find none: people in China are finally stepping up to better salaries. The end of the cheap labor? Maybe, maybe not, but if it is, with what will China compete to keep its place in the top of the world? Specially now that it has attacked and insulted the West? I mean, after the attack on Google I'm really not inclined to but Chinese stuff. Okay, they are everywhere because they are cheap. But if the cheap labor disappears, will it continue to be cheap? Hn, good question, right?

Now it also appears that they have attacked Yahoo!. That's really not a smart thing, now is it? BUT maybe it is all a hoax to make China look bad, right? I mean, it could be. Big, bad, mean, losing former World Powers might be attacking their own companies in China to get attention, wreck havoc and blame China. Right. Because highlighting the human rights abuses are not nearly enough, because what happened before and during the Olimpics were not nearly enough. Right.

All I'll point out now is, where is China going? They are turning the West against them, right when they could rise as a World Power, and push us away. Sure, we might not be the biggest market, but we are the bigger spenders, and if your products stop being cheap, and you still have to fight with the stigma of crappy stuff, then how do you expect to keep it up? Will you sell your crap to your own impoverished market? To your own captive market?

At this time China has three options: adjust to the world, the rest of the world (mainly the West), collapse or go Godzilla. It seems it is trying to pull a Godzilla, but if it does, this bunch of Western frmers will receive it with sticks and stones.