China Update
June 19th, 2008 at 01:44pm Bob Trojan
As I mentioned yesterday, I attended the China Matchmaking event conducted by RAEDC. Follow Thomas Bona’s article for a good rundown.
http://www.businessrockford.com/biznews/x1470888204/Chinese-delegation-visits-Rockford-today
So why was this important for a local manufacturer?
I learned that this group was on a US mission visiting cities like Los Angeles, St. Louis, Chicago, Boston among others. So by stopping in Rockford, we had a chance to explain the advantages of locating their business here. If they are going to locate in the US, why not in the Rockford area with all the benefits that we have to offer. Better us than LA, St. Louis or another city. And of course, bring jobs and wealth to the region.
What most of us don’t realize is that Illinois is the #1 state in the Midwest for Foreign Direct Investment with over 1,600 foreign firms located in over 5,000 Illinois locations employing almost 300,000 employees and exporting almost $50 billion.
If this China business opportunity is coming, why not at least see what’s involved and how your company could get on the train and benefit?
That’s my plan!
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1. redrover | June 20th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
As he did in this blog back on May 14, 2008 (China’s Growth),
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/manufacturing/2008/05/14/15/
and in his blog of June 18, 2008 (Export to China),
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/manufacturing/2008/06/18/export-to-china/
Mr. Bob Trojan continues to rejoice in the idea of trading with representatives of the brutal Butchers of Beijing.
(What follows is for the most part identical to the comment I posted to his “Export to China” blog with new material in bold face print.)
He certainly must know that the Chinese Communist Party is one of the most violently criminal organizations ever formed by creatures who resemble human beings.
That despicable government’s crimes against innocent Chinese citizens — like heartless forced abortions and relentless religious and political persecution — are well known to everyone who cares about liberty and justice for all.
He must also know about Red China’s repeated threats of invasion against democratic Taiwan. Does he not realize that they constitute threats against democracy wherever it exists?
The Beijing government’s assaults upon free speech are no longer confined to China proper and Chinese citizens who live there. They now target Members of the US House of Representatives with impunity:
Lawmakers say Capitol computers hacked by Chinese
By PETE YOST and LARA JAKES JORDAN,
Associated Press Writers, Wed Jun 11, 2008
WASHINGTON - Multiple congressional computers have been hacked by people working from inside China, lawmakers said Wednesday, suggesting the Chinese were seeking lists of dissidents. …
FULL STORY AT:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_go_co/china_hacking
Despite the demonstrated duplicity and viciousness of the Communist Chinese government, Mr. Trojan practically salivates at the idea of making money off of trading with that government and its carefully selected representatives.
I would call that treason.
Under the guise of promoting economic development and manufacturing in Rust Belt Rockford, Mr. Trojan and his pals are really subsidizing communist tyranny in Red China and manufacturing even more misery for the innocent people of China who are its victims.
Have they no shame? Have they no feelings for the human suffering that they wring their “free trade” profits from?
What’s more than that: If they have their way, Mr. Trojan and his treasonous co-conspirators will involve honest working people, right here in Rockford, in their shameful appeasement of Communist tyranny in China.
Anyone who works for a Red China-owned factory located in Rockford or works for a factory that supplies that China-owned enterprise with supplies, parts and other materials and services would thereby be helping to produce a profit for that communist government.
In order to keep their jobs, those hard-working and honest Rockford workers caught up in this racket would be forced to become de facto accomplices to the crimes committed by that evil regime.
Is this one of the benefits that Mr. Trojan loves to talk about?
I would love to read Mr. Trojan’s answers to these questions and to the ones I posted in reply to his earlier postings on this topic.
2. Bob Trojan | June 20th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Redrover;
I learned long ago that separation of politics from business was the approach to take. Unless our government prohibits trade with any country, we should be allowed to compete for that business. As far as I know, our government, going to the days of Nixon when he opened the doors to China, encourages this trade. No successor President has made it illegal.
Previously, as I’m sure you know, we were at war with several Asian and European countries. Yet, after the war ended, we not only helped to rebuild them but today trade in both directions is brisk. Remember the Cold War? It was going on for years and so was trade, albeit at a lower level, and it too was legal.
I don’t agree with all of China’s moral or political practices to which you refer, that’s the politicians job. As I was once told: “if we don’t get it (business) from the U.S., we’ll get it from Europe. Better us than them!
As a businessman, trading legally, I have a responsibility to compete where I can.
3. redrover | June 20th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Thank you for your reply, Mr. Trojan.
I would only inquire this of you:
As a human being, don’t you have a responsibility toward those who might be suffering as a result of your exercising your responsibility, as a businessman, to trade legally and compete where you can?
I guess that I cannot understand how you can separate business and politics as you do — and with dreadful consequences that you are aware of — and still be happy with yourself for doing so.
I respectfully suggest that you examine your conscience to see if the worldview that you have embraced is satisfactory to that very important part of who you are and may forever be.
For my part, because you have listened to what I have to say on the topic and have honored me with a reply, I will not again comment on any of your future postings on this particular topic.
Thank you for your careful consideration of the issues that I have tried to raise in these discussions.
RedRover
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