From the coffee maker you use every day to your favorite sweater, many products are “Made in China”—an inferential (if not accidental) Screen that provokes people to associate China with cheap goods. But at what and whose expense are these goods being made?

A U.S.-based human rights group angrily Called Out KYE Systems factory in Dongguan, China this past April for mistreating young female workers—forcing them to work long hours and live in poor conditions.

Management was quick to counter with a Mirror – designed to freeze an opponent in its tracks – citing evidence of its compliance with China’s labor laws.

Cheap good are being produced at the expense of some Chinese people, so here’s my own Ping: Can we allow others to live in a way we would never accept for ourselves?

Posted by: Alice Hu

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