Monday, July 6, 2009

Made in the United States of China

I was dusting our show-case today, including the souvenirs we have collected (for others' sake) from the countries we have visited. I happened to flip over a mug that I got from Las Vegas the last time I visited that fatherland of hedonism. Interestingly, even the souvenir was made in, you guessed it, China.

Seemingly, barring the citizens themselves, everything in America is made in China. How does transnational commerce progress from here? Is it possible that China, the world's largest producer of Chinese labour, will find itself in the amusing position of being a monopolistic manufacturer to the world? ... and China becomes the Microsoft of Manufacture.

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