[ve2vfd]

Is there any existing problem, of any kind, anywhere in the world, that Canadian's don't blame on the U.S.?

I think we have to take responsibility for Celine Dion.

No no no Wheatfield, we can also blame the Americans for Céline Dion! She never would have made it this big were it not for American audiences buying her records and going to her shows

Pat

[Parallax]

No no no Wheatfield, we can also blame the Americans for Céline Dion! She never would have made it this big were it not for American audiences buying her records and going to her shows

Pat

Good one!

[Wheatfield]

No no no Wheatfield, we can also blame the Americans for Céline Dion! She never would have made it this big were it not for American audiences buying her records and going to her shows

Pat

How about Don Cherry?

[GerryL]

If something is made in China, it better not have "Made in the U.S.A." labeling on it because that is illegal would be subject to criminal and civil laws.

Beeman airguns that are made in China are actually being sold at walmart but with the Beeman branding.
Barbecue grills that also have american brands are actually made in china if you take a closer look as to where they were manufactured.
All are being sold at walmart.

[wildman]

Wow, talk about reverse engineering! It looks like a perfect copy... that can't be legal?

DealExtreme: $38.32 Vertical Battery Grip for Pentax K10D Digital SLR Camera

Pat

"that can't be legal?"

That assumes there is anything, substantially, in the original Pentax product that was and is original and patentable by Pentax in the first place. Perhaps the Pentax product is just a collection standard well understood features and technology that are in the public domain and more or less available to any manufacturer?

Just looking similar and having similar functions is not necessarily patent infringement. That is a table saw, for instance, is going to be made and look similar no matter who makes it.

[kevinschoenmakers]

Then why did you buy a Feisol tripod and ballhead which is made in Taiwan...

Taiwan is an economy and de facto a country of its own.

Ironically, I thought the British should have turned Hong Kong over to Taiwan because that his really the government they leased it from. Otherwise they should have kept it.

Hong Kong became a Britisch Colony in the 19th century, when China was ruled by the Qing Dynasty. A 99-year lease was obtained in 1898, the nationalist government can be said to have gained control over China no earlier than 1912 (and only really in the 1920s). So by your logic they should have given Hong Kong back to the Manchurians

No, that is what you just said.
I've never said that.

If Walmart was it's own economy, it would be the fifth largest trading partner of China. (Or something along those lines - I might not have remembered accurately, but I read an article that said this a little while ago in the newspaper.)

Also, regarding Chinese 'fake' items. Usually what happens is that a company gives some or other factory an order to produce 10.000 items of product X. The factory then makes 15.000, with 5.000 to sell to someone else. These aren't necessarily of worse quality. Though obviously not legal.
I guess this is just a phase economies go through. Just as Japan used to produce goods of questionable quality and background - as someone already noted. There will come a point where Chinese corporations will start demanding better protection of their own products, as they start making more and more high quality products themselves. Despite China's image there are already plenty of companies that produce high-quality products they have designed themselves.
Give it 10, 20 years, and the world will be complaining how companies in Indonesia are stealing designs.