A Christmas Message from China

[Black Orchid]

UK-based grocery chain Tesco has halted production at a factory in China after a British newspaper reported it used forced labour to produce charity Christmas cards for the supermarket.

Tesco said it also launched an investigation of the Chinese supplier it hired to make the holiday cards, Zheijiang Yunguang Printing, after the Sunday Times raised questions about the factory's labour practices.

The newspaper said the potentially problematic province of the cards came to light when a 6-year-old girl in south London found a card in her box already had a message written inside.

It read: "We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qinqpu prison China forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation."

The writer asked whoever received the note to contact Peter Humphrey, a former British journalist who was detained in China while working as a corporate investigator and spent time at the same Shanghai prison.

The London girl's father, Ben Widdicombe, said Sunday they at first thought the message was a "prank."

"On reflection, we realised it was actually potentially quite a serious thing," Widdicombe said.

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[Texan]

It would be very painful to end trading with China over human rights violations, but it would be more painful for the Chinese. I think Trump is on the right path by negotiating better trade policies with other countries, especially China. Walmart primarily bought American produced goods when possible when Sam Walton was alive. His kids opted for cheap goods and profits over principles after his death.

Now they are stealing every technology that we produce over there. Iphones, cars, microchips at Texas Instruments, movies, etc..... They have cornered the market on lead batteries because recycling lead is a dirty job and expensive to do cleanly and safely. China isn't concerned with cleanliness of the environment or safety of it's workers. They have undercut our steel industry by working at a loss long enough for our industry to mostly go under. We need to be very careful with our entanglements with China. We can be sympathetic over the plight of the Chinese people, but our humanitarian efforts to help the Chinese by doing business with them typically go to their government and increased control over their people and maybe some day us.

[Valkie]

But at least they have the right idea of how to treat muzzos.

Organ donors,

[Black Orchid]

It would be very painful to end trading with China over human rights violations, but it would be more painful for the Chinese. I think Trump is on the right path by negotiating better trade policies with other countries, especially China. Walmart primarily bought American produced goods when possible when Sam Walton was alive. His kids opted for cheap goods and profits over principles after his death.

Now they are stealing every technology that we produce over there. Iphones, cars, microchips at Texas Instruments, movies, etc..... They have cornered the market on lead batteries because recycling lead is a dirty job and expensive to do cleanly and safely. China isn't concerned with cleanliness of the environment or safety of it's workers. They have undercut our steel industry by working at a loss long enough for our industry to mostly go under. We need to be very careful with our entanglements with China. We can be sympathetic over the plight of the Chinese people, but our humanitarian efforts to help the Chinese by doing business with them typically go to their government and increased control over their people and maybe some day us.

I'd be glad if no-one did business with China but that isn't going to happen. I think Trump is on the right track with them too and in the end it will be China's loss if they don't tow the line.

They are absolute snakes in business.