Ted Koppel on China’s role in global economy

The American and Chinese economies are irreversibly intertwined. For more, check out Koppel on Discovery, The People’s Republic of Capitalism July 9-12 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery Channel

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[terrapin5]

I can't seem to find this documentary anywhere! It would be really helpful for a reasearch project I'm working on.

[iavnodipaoli]

american bankers, corporations et al keep sleeping on piles of money. China is not to blame, corporations are. When a chinese worker is in trouble he/she returns to the countryside, when you are in trouble you get fired, when corporations are in trouble your taxes and the chinese savings bail them out

[iavnodipaoli]

i hate the way he shows China. He is saying that the united states became rich in the same way as Chine is doing it right now. Well, that is in fact a BIG lie, china has not attacked any adversary, it has not created monopolies and made coutries open trade barries while keeping protectionism inside. If americans wanted cheap products then you must pay the price of globalization. Chinese people don't steal YOUR jobs, the CEOs of corporations from your coutry decide to move your jobs overseas

[kawasaki6402]

this was a good series

[SteveI72]

uvgarden, if you think Ted Koppel showed objectiveness in this documentary, you need to do some research. There were many factually incorrect statements, and a very liberal use of propaganda techinques. I detailed a few of the more blatant ones in my other posts. Many of the propaganda techniques he used were quite subtle, but some are so blatant they are almost laughable. Study up on propaganda techniques and then rewatch the program. It will make a big difference.

[SteveI72]

nartin86, church revenue in the US is tax free if you are a registered religious organization with the IRS. If you are not a registered 501(c)(3) organization you have to pay taxes. If your "church" is not registered, you are looking for trouble. A "church" could be run as a regular business or the leader can file taxes as an individual. In either case you have to pay taxes. Running an "underground" church is not allowed in the US.

[betatalk357]

This ad should definitely be a wake up call to America:

1) Showing the guy in China saying "Everything is about making money."

2) When the guy said "America has to figure out what they want to do here."

3) Showing the bumper sticker that says "Out of a Job Yet? Keep Buying Foreign Products!"

[betatalk357]

China has their program on the ball and we got our head up our ass. We make products in the U.S. of poor quality, overpriced and bad performance with workers who couldn't care less whether or not they still got a job to go to. Of which, the products we do make are inferior to top-peformance, durable, properly priced foreign products.