As if Amazon don’t harvest data or have illegal products on its marketplace.
replyDoesn’t TEMU have CCP ties? Free market is for businesses and individuals and foreign govt entities should not unfairly benefit from a free market.
replyEvery major PRoC company is required to have CCP ties; in addition to 'paying for facilitation' by local officials, a certain percentage of their employees must be CCP members.
replyAll big companies in China are partially run by the CCP. Just how it works there.
replyEverybody in china that gets big has CCP ties. No way around it. Their car manufacturers are all propped up by government.
replyTies as in pay tax to ccp. In China Temu is called pinduoduo (拼多多）and you can buy some wild stuff there, the regulation on mainland seems also pretty lax i mean.
replySorry, ties, as CCP party committees inside private firms. And in case of Temu, it also has a data-sharing agreement with People's Daily [1], a CCP controlled media group.
replyJust image having a mandatory political party inside every American corporation which the board has no control over.
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/01/...
I’d start with the immense packaging waste and shameless overconsumption tricks that are banned in basically any other industry.
replyIf you're "pro free market, but", you're not pro free market. That's fine, but you might want to reevaluate whether you're actually for it.
replyFree markets can have strong rules. No other than Adam Smith said they are needed.
replyI would even go further and say that the term really has to be almost "equal" - equal access, equal rules, equal legislation or the market isn't really free.
replyThe US and China have standards as well and bodies to regulate them. Regulation vs Free Market debate isn't a binary issue and is a spectrum.
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