This article made my day enough to post:
"But in 2005 I had learned that we are too closely tied to China to think that we can turn our backs on it. The boycott taught me that self-reliance, at the level of the family and the nation, is a thing of the past. Nobody relinquishes independence without a fight, or at least a sigh. But that is what we have done, quietly and irreversibly, in turning to China and the rest of the world for so much of what we want and need at the bargain prices we have come to expect.
The boycott taught me something else: that I did not want to turn my back on China. I'm not minimizing its human rights record or abuse of the environment, but I believe the solutions to those concerns and others lie in turning toward China, rather than away."
Hurray! Maybe there's hope for the world.
The boycott taught me something else: that I did not want to turn my back on China. I'm not minimizing its human rights record or abuse of the environment, but I believe the solutions to those concerns and others lie in turning toward China, rather than away."
Hurray! Maybe there's hope for the world.