Extract below from an interesting news article today. “What I do...

Extract below from an interesting news article today.


“What I do think is an issue is very often if you talk of production of minerals in China, the processing is very often done to very poor environmental standards. That provides an unlevel playing field, and we have to address that not by reducing our standards but somehow increasing the standards others have to comply with. One way is to track the provenance of these minerals and actually force companies to pay a premium.”

He suggested that “if you were able to level the playing fields in the environmental and also corruption areas I think there would be less to complain about in what China’s doing, they’re just being highly competitive”.

“Making China out to be the baddie in all cases I think is not correct,” he said.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/china-flooding-foreign-markets-with-cheap-goods-is-a-situation-structurally-primed-for-war/news-story/7b619353efdad44468ae80fad4bae1fc%3famp