China is moving forward. The article starts out with the Olympics and all the workers who had to go home after it was done. It had talked about all the layoffs and unpaid months Chinese workers had; it was mostly about Foxconn. The article then compared China to Japan and the Soviet Union. Then It talk about how China wants us, the United States to stop borrowing and importing. The only problem is that if we stopped importing from China, China would start to lose money because we are big importers of their things. China is moving forward, the examples given were an division of IBM that created a voice recognition that can convert spoken words to any other language and also a battery company that makes basically all the batteries for Apple ipods. The quote at the end talked about how do we use this momentum that China had for the United states?
Reaction:
I thought this article was good, but hard to follow sometimes. I say that because it went from being about the Olympics to a company named Foxconn laying off 100,000 people worldwide. The part about China tell the United States to stop borrowing and consuming was flawed on China’s part. Even though it would be good for the United States to save and import less it would be bad for China because a large part of income comes from the United States importing basically everything into the United States. I liked this article because it had good content the only problem was that it was not put together that well I thought. Overall though I thought it was pretty good.
Source:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/04/china-apos-s-way-forward/7331/3/
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