Yes a lot of Western companies have manufacturing facilities in China and a lot of Chinese companies have manufacturing facilities outside China - so what? More interesting to me anyway is the fact that Chinese companies are investing in a faster rate outside China than so called developed country companies.
Maybe if the US tax system was more economically rational and less a result of doctrinaire uneducated nonsense and politics ( ditto for the 'Europeans') - the US tax base would be a lot larger since so many large US companies pay no taxes - after all - studies dating back to the 60's comprehensively proved that the lower the tax rate - the higher the amount of tax revenue the government received...
We either embrace the fact the we live in one world and that the likely effect of open trade is that poorer countries 'export' their poverty by importing investment OR we can all go back to using war as a clearing house for the unemployed. I find it interesting that the most reactionary types are those who declare themselves 'for' the worker and social justice blah blah blah - but fail to understand that 'the worker' and social justice' is now a global phenomenon - and all that goes with that.
It's interesting to see how, when western journalists want to find ways to take down China's reputation, they point to weaknesses in their financial systems and realities. It's probably natural, since western countries seem to be managed by the banks nowadays, or maybe they always were. But the successful East Asian countries are run by innovation more than finances. Successful, well implemented innovation will result in a sustainable economy if handled properly.
Western innovation seems increasingly aimed towards short term financial gain. That's not sustainable. We don't need iPhones, but we do need renewable energy. Some western countries seem to have entered a kind of "panic mode", placing sanctions on any country that seem to represent some kind of threat to yesterday's world order. Sanctions however are often counterproductive, since they encourage innovation to circumvent them. Take Russia, which has always depended on imports of food. After western sanctions were enforced, they have increased food production dramatically and is now exporting food products in direct competition with the countries that placed the sanctions on them in the first place. Together with China, they are again developing passenger airplanes, and it's just a question of time before they'll hack into the Boeing/Airbus duopoly, particularly in the huge Asia market.
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All this would make it easy for China to ignore an unpleasant video from a little German company. But then pride and honour enters the stage, and the feeling of being unfairly treated. To take an example: There were enough photos taken with Leica cameras during conflicts like the Vietnam war, where westerners were "the bad guys", but Leica chose not to include anything that could be seen as critisism of western countries. Leica did the opposite, depicting Chinese, Africans and Muslims as uncivilised, rude, brutal and dangerous, while photographers, mostly western, are heroes who document their misdeeds.
That's a mistake in my eyes, and makes the Chinese reaction understandable. Maybe China would have reacted like they did anyway as long as the scene from China was included, as far as I remember the only scene with information about location and time. But if we're going to critisise China, we'd better stand for a balanced point of view. The Leica video lacked that balance.