The Bad News From China Doesn't Stop...
As soon as I logged onto the Internet this morning, two China-sourcing-related stories caught my eye:
China Toy Boss Kills Self After Recall
Slaves Found In Chinese Brick Factories
One interesting quote from the former article was "Chinese companies often have long supply chains, making it difficult to trace the exact origin of components, chemicals and food additives."
I've seen sourcing teams not exercise enough due diligence in evaluating their prime suppliers in China let alone going downstream to Tier II and Tier III suppliers. Hopefully, all of this bad news is a wakeup call to ensure a satisfactory supplier qualification process, not just in sourcing from China but sourcing period.
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posted by Charles Dominick, SPSM @ 7:02 AM
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Taking America Back
The recent uncovering of the Chinese lead paint, the defective tires, the poisoned pet foods, and the toothpastes tainted with anti-freeze, are only the slightest tip of the iceberg of the damage China is causing inside the United States.
The Chinese invasion over the last decade is now a national security threat to the US.
China has deeply penetrated the US manufacturing base with its cheaply manufactured goods.
The US military, once the strongest in the world, backed by our machine shops, our fabrication shops, and our broad industrial base is eroding at a rapid rate while the Chinese strengthen theirs at US expense.
Finally there is some good news to report on this front.
A few years ago in Wisconsin, one of the country’s brightest industrial minds, Allen Schlicke, put together a group of companies, each with specific core competencies in areas such as large boring bar work, production CNC machining, stampings, tool making, and screw machine work to name a few, to turn things around.
These companies offered better than the norm pricing in their areas of specialization and were brought to market in Wisconsin and Illinois.
Since that time hundreds of companies have purchased from this group and have had their costs reduced on domestically purchased commodities.
This is the first and greatest positive response to the communist attack on our manufacturing base.
With a heightened sense of awareness throughout the US manufacturing sector, more companies will discover less expensive domestic suppliers for their own purchased goods and become less dependent on the growing Chinese military-industrial base, which has now become a very real and serious threat to the United States economy.
China has much bigger sins to take responsibility for.
The environment there is now being polluted on such a wide scale that immediate regulation and enforcement would probably do nothing to prevent the seepage of their toxins to the entire globe.
The workers who toil for meaningless wages are lucky to be paid anything if at all. They are frequently shorted on their pay and if they complain they find themselves beaten up or worse.
How can any Govt. trust a country on a continent that was run by warlords for over 1000 years?
Anyone can click on a link to the unclassified portion of the Cox report which details China's theft of US thermonuclear technology over the last 50 years, or click on links showing photos of the aircraft carrier the Chinese are currently refurbishing to fly combat aircraft from.
What failed to make television headlines here was the day after Bush labeled Iran's army a terrorist group, the Chinese and Soviets flew a joint military exercise as a "pointed message to the United States"
How our companies and citizens can continue to justify purchasing goods from a country who's agenda is to infiltrate and topple our industrial base insults even the most simpilist man's common sense.
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