Why Lou Dobbs Scares Me More Than Chinese Toothpaste

For the past several weeks, China has been the punching bag of international supply chain management.

The underlying problems are very serious ones as a number of people and animals have become sick and even died as a result of using goods that have been manufactured in China.

There are dozens of news reports in the press (print, cyber, TV, and other) that look to judge China itself rather than explore the role of business , and this clip is a perfect example of that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HhxJhQaOsQ

Why reports like this have me scared more than using a tube of Chinese toothpaste is simple� they make no attempt to highlight the critical issues that underly the problem and in the end, the problems are not solved

Lou Dobbs, and others like him do not understand the fundamental reasons of where the breakdowns occured, nor does it appear they want to. They are only concerned with finding new ways to inflame the public into believing that products Made in China are bad.

They spend no time educating the public of the role American importers played in distributing thee products
They spend no time educating the public of the real difficulties of supply chain management or the responsibility of various parties within the supply chain to ensure quality

In my mind, reports like this offer no solutions to the problem, and only make the problem worse as these reports create more misinformation of what the core problems and fear of anything made in China.

Which wil only result in more blog posts like this, stories like this, and tit-for-tat trade disputes like this.

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