Ted Koppel and Discovery channel are doing a series on China that will run July 9th through the 12th.
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The People's Republic of Capitalism
The American and Chinese economies are irreversibly intertwined. The common complaint that the Chinese are taking jobs away from American workers is in many cases true. China's cheap and abundant labor attracts manufacturing from all over the world. Still, American economists estimate that the U.S. is as much as $70 billion richer each year because of its relationship with China —something must be going right.
Wal-Mart, America's largest retailer, is able to maintain low prices in part because of cheap Chinese labor. And when Apple sells a $299 iPod (designed in California and assembled in China), the American computer company makes an $80 profit, while the Chinese assembly plant makes just $4.
We'll trace the interconnected web of U.S./China trade, from Mexican migrant workers in North Carolina to a Chongqing teenager working on a boombox assembly line; quality control inspectors at Ethan Allen to a Chinese homemaker shopping at Wal-Mart in Chongqing; and laid-off workers from Briggs & Stratton's Rolla, Missouri plant to the American who runs the Briggs & Stratton plant in Chongqing...
millions of peasants are on the move from China’s countryside to its booming industrialized cities.
and China will soon become the world's largest producer of cars as well as the biggest market for new cars...and, and...China has lifted 300 million people out of poverty in less than a generation...
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It's a four part documentary. They promise they'll cover the human rights issue and a host of other things.
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Finally, we'll examine the thorny issue of human rights and how China's economy continues to thrive despite the suppression of free speech and the iron fist of the Communist party. Capitalism, after all, is merely an economic system. While China has wholeheartedly embraced a capitalist economy, it still governs its people with communism's authoritarian rule.
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Koppel on Discovery : Program Highlights : Discovery Channel
Thought I'd clue you guys in on what looks like an interesting piece.
But I can't help but wonder if they let Ted see the real China?
07-05-2008, 12:57 AM
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