Culture Clash at a Chinese-Owned Plant in Ohio
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#2Makes absolute sense for Fuyao to move where their customers are. I also applaud the US growth and job creation they are creating in the process.
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#3It's somewhat surprising for the NYT to put forward the proposition that ethnocentrism and disregard for worker safety is a part of Chinese culture, but I guess I'll take their new wokeness as a sign of progress.
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#4Makes absolute sense for Fuyao to move where their customers are. I also applaud the US growth and job creation they are creating in the process.
Those jobs were historically there to begin with, then tooling + process + jobs were shipped overseas because that was cheaper, the resulting trade surplus made it possible for the Chinese to ship the factory back to the United States.
The big question then is can they remain profitable in the long run if they do things the US way, and if they can why couldn't the same plant be owned and operated by Americans?
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#5I drive past this plant on occasion, and I think it's been a generally positive impact on the area. It was kind of sad when the old GM plant shut down and sat empty for several years.
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#6Glass is heavy and brittle, making it both expensive and difficult to ship.
Many glass mills need to be within a certain mile radius of the factories they supply because of this. NYT missed this in the article.
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#7I am glad that in some countries there is still an ethos of standing up for your own citizens. I couldn't imagine any action being taken against a Chinese company for discriminatory hiring practices in New Zealand or Australia, where such discrimination is rampant, not only in employment but also in real estate.
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#8Makes absolute sense for Fuyao to move where their customers are. I also applaud the US growth and job creation they are creating in the process.
Those jobs were historically there to begin with, then tooling + process + jobs were shipped overseas because that was cheaper, the resulting trade surplus made it possible for the Chinese to ship the factory back to the United States. The big question then is can they remain profitable in the long run if they do things the US way, and if they can why couldn't the same plant be owned and operated by Americans?
As an American, my observation is that we're allergic to logic and long term planning/investment.
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#9China is a gigantic investor in the USA. Whenever you hear the term "trade deficit" that the US has to China, there is an identical amount in "investment surplus" that the US gets from China.
That investment is everywhere - in our stock market, in our government debt, in our real estate and in our Ohio Windshield plants.
Every time you buy an iPhone, you're handing China hundreds of dollars which they then invest in America.
We very literally gave them a Windshield plant in exchange for consumer goods.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/05/16/that-chi...
Re: Culture Clash at a Chinese-Owned Plant in Ohio
#10Makes absolute sense for Fuyao to move where their customers are. I also applaud the US growth and job creation they are creating in the process.
Those jobs were historically there to begin with, then tooling + process + jobs were shipped overseas because that was cheaper, the resulting trade surplus made it possible for the Chinese to ship the factory back to the United States. The big question then is can they remain profitable in the long run if they do things the US way, and if they can why couldn't the same plant be owned and operated by Americans?
"and if they can why couldn't the same plant be owned and operated by Americans?"
You already know the answer to that. It's why they shipped the jobs overseas in the first place. In many cases, the workers even keep voting for the kinds of people that do it. I especially found it amusing that Trump was appealing as a capitalist to workers whose jobs were lost due to capitalism like this. Many of these areas are self-defeating. Not all but many.