On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
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> Daniel, I agree with you about Cuba.
> China does not want to see slave labor also. Mush of it is being practised by
> enterprises created by foreign joint ventures which came to China to escape
> minimum wages in their home countries. It America passes a "portable" miminum
Actually an even casual perusal of newspapers in China or related journals by official labor bureau and union (ACFTU) reveals that the worst violators of workers rights in China are not American companies, but rather Taiwanese, Hong Kongese, and Korean firms. Recently there was a story in the Workers' Daily about a worker in Shenzhen who was 23 ando found in his dorm bed dead from exhaustion, after working shifts from 6 a.m. to 12 midnight. Not one Chinese would read that story and guess the company was an American one. They know without looking the owner is one of the above three. This is not to deny that American MNCs exploit labor in China, but blaming the problem of slave labor on American companies hardly gets us closer to understanding the problem of exploitation n in present day China.