> Why would China want their people spend a month's salary to buy a foreign product (assembly doesn't count)? "China" should not want anything in particular.

> Why would China want their people spend a month's salary to buy a foreign product (assembly doesn't count)? "China" should not want anything in particular. Either the Chinese are free or they are a highly manipulated and virtually enslaved population. Clearly these are extremes. The truth lies somewhere in between. If a person wants to literally burn a month's salary --literally set it on fire-- no government should have the right or ability to interfere with that. I find it disturbing to see how a portion of this thread has turned anti-US. We are not the problem.