What they do in Europe?
A friend of my brother who has been working his ass off, all day long and seven days a week since his father died to keep up the family business, which was wholesale of cheap clothing, has gone bankrupt and before closing down he has had to mortgage his house to pay his workers.
No matter what he did, he could not compete with the Chinese. He is very patriotic. Years ago he came to me to tell me that much as he wished to produce at home, and much as he had tried, he had no chance to compete with the imports from China and had to seek countries where he could get items produced at even lower costs.
He traveled to Mexico, India and other SE Asian countries. If it wasn't bad enough that the Chinese were importing their awful quality products at cheaper prices because of labour costs in China, two years ago when he was going to his mother's home for lunch, he was taking with him some samples to show her mother as he did almost every day. One Chinese had been observing him for weeks, perhaps months. The Chinese approached him and told him that he could get him the same items produced at a lower cost.
You would think that he Chinese was poor, but he drove him to the manufacturing spot on a brand new, top of the range BMW with all the extras. The manufacturing site was a basement in a building. You wouldn't even notice that there was anything or anyone inside. But what he saw inside was some 20 chinese all sitting in front of sewing machines, with their bare feet and without lifting their heads from them.
It was, he told me, surrealistic. You could almost see the chains on their feet if you closed your eyes for a second.
So now they have reduced not only the costs of labour, but also the costs of transport. And since they are in the country, why they hell are they going to sell to wholesalers and distributors, instead of doing the wholesale and the distribution themselves?
A Spanish manufacturer who had people working in half as bad the conditions as those Chinese, would be thrown in prison and would make the news. But those Chinese are pure mafia.
This friend of my brother is not the only one in the textile industry in closing down this winter. The late arrival of the winter and the subsequent low sales have done done the rest to take to bankrupt lots of small and middle business in the textile industry. More is to come. Northern Italy is a strong area for textile industry.. or it was.
They are also ruining the traditional shoe industry of Elx, down south of Valencia City. There were some riots in that town against the Chinese, and the Chinese Embassy was quick to protest to the Spanish Government and demand that their citizens were protected.
*Pants down!* *Dong!* *Second Round!*
The Italian journalist says: Bandiere dappertutto! (Flags all over the place!)
Why do you think that they wave their flags? patriotism? No way. It is a threat, a reminder to the Italian Government of a possible diplomatic conflict with China! They are blackmailing our governments and we have only useless and treacherous scum in them!
Watch this short video footage:
MediaCenter - Tafferugli tra cinesi e forze dell\'ordine
We have overlooked much the problem of the Chinese. They are not like other immigrants because they have kept much to themselves while serving us a piece of rat that they say it is chicken with a smile. But they are as dangerous if not more.