"We're sorry you tried to kill our kids"

i've been wanting to touch on this, because i think it's a great illustration of how screwed up the world is.

i can't believe Mattel is actually apologizing to the Chinese people:

Mattel was forced to deliver a humiliating public apology to ‘the Chinese people’ on Friday over the damaging succession of product recalls of China-made toys that the US toymaker has announced in recent months.

In a carefully stage-managed meeting in Beijing with a senior Chinese official, which, unusually, was open to the media, Thomas Debrowski, Mattel’s executive vice-president for worldwide operations, read out a prepared text that played down the role of Chinese factories in the recalls.

the washington post has a more "nuanced" take on the apology...sez that china interpreted mattel's statement in an unintended way...

meanwhile, china's war against the rest of the world continues:they're trying to kill our babies with cribs.

it's so disheartening for me to look at all of this and maintain any faith i might have at all for the future. when our corporations have to figuratively bend over and kiss Chinese ass when it's not any fault of theirs, we have to wonder who's got who by the balls. at what point do we have to just say NO to cheap products & cheap labor? i work for a huge multinational company right now who is outsourcing things to mexico like crazy...and we don't make toys. we make things which could be deadly if manufactured improperly.


previously on NGNG...the chinese plot thickens.