>> JLR emphasised that cars produced in China would be in addition to existing output from
>> the UK, and that there were no plans to move its manufacturing base out of
>> Britain."
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John - I'll buy from a company that manufactures outside of the UK, but not in China. It's a country with an oppressive, backwards and aggressive regime that controls through fear. Everything in China is geared towards economic output (ironic given it's still technically a Communist country), with IP laws and copyright falling at the side.
You only have to look at eBay to see the amount of crap spewing out of China, where they've illegally taken reference designs for electronics, implemented them badly, and are selling them in bulk. Are they paying import duties? I think not. Give me one example of high quality original design from China, and you won't find anything newer than a sixth dynasty Ming vase.
Or take a look at software - no original software comes from China, and the mobile app stores (just to give one example) are littered with hundreds of identical, crap, apps which are based on example source code. At the moment China, while big, lags behind the Western world (and Korea and Japan) because they're incapable of innovating. The moment that happens, we're toast.
I think we'll always disagree on this but it would be interesting to consider the situation 5 years from now. China is JLR's biggest market and at some point it's going to be more cost-effective for them to produce the RHD variant in small numbers in their Chinese factories.
How about the hypocrisy of a country that relies entirely on exports imposing massive import taxes and penalties? The human rights abuses? Tibet? The fact that baby girls are routinely abandoned or aborted - legally, willingly, or by the state all factoring?
No, sorry, I want nothing to do with China. I accept that some components in items I own are made there - which is fine - but I will not buy from a company that manufactures in China. My laptop, phone, kitchen appliances, clothes, furniture and most other belongings are manufactured elsewhere.
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