"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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To decry the aircraft on the sole fact that it will be constructed in
China simply smacks of xenophobia.

I think that the fact that the aircraft will be made in a country that is
hostile the United States, whose military leaders have publicly threatened
to use nuclear weapons on our forces, which has possibly the worst
environmental record in history, uses slave labor, supplies arms and
advice to terrorists, has the worst reputation for patent and copyright
piracy, launders counterfeit American currency for the North Koreans,
has shown callous disregard for consumer safety in its industrial
standards, and has a horrible human rights record is something worth
criticizing.

Nicely stated.

Do they still abandon baby girls on the side of rivers or eat engangered
tiger penises to give themselves a hard-on? Do they still imprison
political dissidents, spy on their own people or censor the media?

Xenophobia? They're no better than the Soviet Union. At least the USSR
helped win World War II.

Last week I went to the mall looking for work shoes, and literally -every-
pair I looked at was made in China. The last pair I bought there lasted
about six months, but that's not why I didn't buy Chinese shoes this time.
I went home, dug out my old circa-1988 Marine Corps GI work boots, put a
coat of polish on them and that's what I've been wearing all week. Made in
America. They're not pretty but I know they weren't made in some communist
sweatshop.

-c