Chinese, cheap and false by Milota Sidorova

One of few things a visitor realizes in China is an impossible amount of gods lying everywhere. I say literally everywhere, since the markets are held on the streets. These markets offer impossible amount of all world known brands and all famous products – and all of this for incredibly low prices. So one soon realizes that all those iPods and Versace are fakes and the most immediate thought is that this kind of „black market“ is running the country, Problems with authenticity and author's rights are very common in the Eastern world, twice as more in China that has become the biggest global manufacture. Taking it from the scratch, everything is faked and h! as a duplicate that is of course cheaper. Rights are broken with every kind of product – electronics, clothes even movies. So far this has caused serious problems in Europe, because this faked cheap products were attractive enough for huge and poor massess of people. And it is a fact that cheap products won the short term battle over traditional products or products of better quality. This business of cheap labour and violated rights is ruling the world and therefore the news that Chinese government wants to crack down factories and companies producing fake goods created a bitter smile upon my face. Really it was more of a joke than a serious thing, although Chinese platform said it wanted to „improve“ its image. However, this true sincere effort is not a bad idea, twice more if you walk down Beijing streets, business centers and find boards with titles: If you steal, then you dignity is decreasing...

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by Milota Sidorova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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