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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug5353, post: 2163377, member: 73555&quot;]Ed, in the past 25 years, we&#039;ve collectively bought MOUNTAINS of stuff from China -- furniture, slippers, jackets, umbrellas, dishes, tools, the list is endless.&nbsp; Most of it, I&#039;m guessing, proved reasonably satisfactory.&nbsp; Satisfactory or not, WE kept buying it, hand over fist.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There are two items I buy from China (via Walmart, I mean) repeatedly, and they are OK.&nbsp; It&#039;s the counterfeits (and food) that give them a bad name, and that tend to have the highest public visibility, and generate the most outrage.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If they&#039;d round up about a hundred counterfeiters and hang them upside down in Tianamen Square for 3 weeks, this baloney would stop.&nbsp; But they never will, it generates too much foreign exchange, plus all those juicy bribes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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