http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/bu...ss/22toys.html
After several embarassing toy recalls from toys made in Chi-Com factories, Mattel was coerced into apologizing to the Chi-Com people.
“It’s like a bank robber apologizing to his accomplice instead of to the person who was robbed,”
Senator Charles E. Schumer
*Wow....this may be the first time I agree with Schumer. Although a better analogy would be, 'It is like a bank robber forcing his victim to apologize to him.' Chinese factories chose to take shortcuts and use lead paint and now they want Mattel to take the fall. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Mattel is getting what they deserve....
It is not heard to read between the lines why a customer was apologizing to a vendor.
XMas season is coming and the Chi-Coms strong-armed Mattel to apologize or risk state sponsored factory strikes. Mattel blinked. Better to build factories in countries like Mexico than to lose that extra penny in costs than do business with a thoroghly corrupt and warlike regme like the Chi-Coms. If the USA goes to war with the Chi-Coms over Taiwan (which by treaty we are obligated to protect), these same corporate types will petition the US govt to reimburse them for that lost assets.