The poster did not state how evil the government of china is. They are doing everything they can to try to become an economic and military superpower. The products you buy at walmart are made with slave labor in government prisons, child labor, and least of all sweatshops.

The only effective way to stop them is to refuse to buy anything with a “made in china” label. That is 80% of everything you see in walmart.

If you make walmart know that you will not buy buy chinese, then they will find a different source.

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And there in lies the rub. A friend of mine who is a SVP at a large media company described China as the new wild west, a land of opportunities of western companies, and everyone is holding their nose and leaping in. The brutal fact is that the opportunities for profit outweight the impact of boycotts. The only solution therefore is to increase the pressure of boycotts, use corporate social responsibility reports, particularly those areas committed to worker rights and the right to organise in free trade unions, and environmental policies (ie point out the hypocrisy of having a carbon policy for EU and US company practises but non for Asia/China/Africa), and pile on the pressure at all points of corporate accountability. For those living in the UK The Tibetan Campaign offers a range of protest forms against that aspect of China’s policies.http://www.freetibet.org/

All this stuff pre 08 Games. China come clean???? Can Intelligence verify this??? Human Rights Watch???? Odd how China wont fix this pre 08 Games??? Or “con” the drive by media into ” See its OK”. A-Z US companies do business with China. 2B people alone is huge market.

Check out the history of Walmart’s influence in pressuring US manufacturing companies to move to China. There in lies the rub. Walmart could have set up criteria for treating workers with respect when it lured US companies into China, but it did not…why not? It was looking for cheap labor. In my opinion too many workers are suffering at the hands of Walmart, Americans who lost decent manufacturing jobs, and the Chinese who are treated badly and paid poorly directly due to the pressure Walmart placed on US companies. That is why I will never shop at Walmart.

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