"Made in China" an omnipresent label
Book review that I wrote in 2007, as the subject still holds interest wanted to copy paste it here. Edited version of this appeared in the Hindustan Times Title: A Year Without "Made in China" Author: Sara Bongiorni Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey M C Vaijayanthi From Christmas decorations to Easter eggs and Halloween pumpkins, just about everything in the daily American life is ruled by Chinese products. In fact this Diwali, one heard a comment about how except for traditional Indian sweets it is a Chinese Diwali – our shopping bags would have been filled with crackers, kandeels to cloths from China. With a large small scale industry though fast losing out in the cost and efficiency game still gives Indian the options to live with home made goods. But the world's largest economy, the United States has no such option. It is reeling under a huge trade deficit with China and struggling to tame the roaring dragon. The real story is not under...