Losing face in Chinese toys:

Aug 13, 2007 05:48


The head of a Chinese toy manufacturing company at the center of a huge U.S. recall has committed suicide, a state-run newspaper said Monday.Zhang Shuhong, who ran the Lee Der Industrial Co. Ltd, killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend, days after China said it had temporarily banned exports by the company, the Southern Metropolis Daily said ( Read more... )

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robin_june August 14 2007, 18:03:29 UTC
The suicide gesture may appease the repercussions from within the Chinese border (if not for him, then for his family).

BUT, if those who pressured him think that it's going to do any appeasing of repercussions from American consumers and hence American businesses, sorry, it won't cut it. It won't stop the lawsuits, or the loss of market share, and it won't really ameliorate American public opinion. Especially recalcitrant will be the older portion of the American population, who remember growing up hearing the propaganda that "they don't really value human life in Communist China, not the way we do here in free America."

What a waste of a human life.

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