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For foreign investors, China is yesterday's hero
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MULTINATIONAL corporations are diversifying their new investments away from "the world's factory" , China, in response to rapidly rising labour costs, shaky legal protections and fear of anti-Japanese sentiment.

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Una () Newbie | 2008-01-30 19:57:42
chinas just so big and diversified - production costs might rise in one area - but theres plenty of other areas ready to be exploited
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Dorrie () Newbie | 2008-01-30 19:59:46
maqnufacturers will always be chasing cheap labour - but at what cost to quality and reliability of supply?
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Jez () Newbie | 2008-01-30 20:01:58
anyone who has read the Henry Ford story knows that he paid his workers well so that they had money to buy Ford cars and hence the cycle rolled on - maybe the same will happen in China -
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