[Eric]

Major western corporations have no sense of loyalty ... all they wish to do is increase their profits, without increasing the quality of their products. The Japanese seem to have a different industrial philosophy ... they increase their profits by manufacturing better stuff. It is not surprising that the top automobile manufacturer is Toyota ... they make damn fine cars at a reasonable price. Western corporations increase their profits, not by making better quality goods but by out-sourcing jobs to areas where wages and safety standards are low. The same thing happened in the shipping industry. Owners register ships in Liberia and Panama. Why?, because ships registered there are not subject to strict safety standards. The globalization of the economy results in crappy products, atrocious working conditions ... near slave labour in some cases. The Americans are actually importing this system into their own country by turning an almost blind eye to illegal immigrants who work for p**s poor wages in rotten conditions.

It's not really the Chinese who are to blame; it's western corporations such as Mattell.