[citation][nom]Tanquen[/nom]"Yes, good honest companies move their manufacturing to India/China and the like because of the good honest government officials, businessmen and all their hard work. Corruption and exploitation are everywhere but nowhere like China. Their government takes advantage of their workers and the west just gleefully and ignorantly buy all their goods and then wonder where all the jobs have gone and why fewer and fewer people have any buying power.[/citation]
This is nothing to do with honesty. It's called Globalization my dear friend.
Now let's flip the story. In the US, almost every International company opens its business, and provided the jobs the people. Isn't this true? So in the same Globalization, we go out and invest in other countries for different reasons. Mostly for being competitive. Mark this word. This didn't happen with China or India. Please go back to 1960s and 1970s to find more answers. Clue is again a bunch of European countries but in Asia it started with Japan/Taiwan/Malaysia/Singapore/later Korea. But in those decades the jobs story was different, now I agree only on "putting most of the eggs in China's basket" for sure. India is far less in Manufacturing compared to China, it's more of IT/Services/Back Office giant. But on the flip side, see now how many Asian (Japanese/Korean is not Chinese/Indian) companies are providing jobs to the people.
If you're talking about honesty then it's different ball of game. Example search this one from www.ctj.org
"Which Fortune 500 Companies Are Sheltering Income in Overseas Tax Havens?"
One thing is certain. If we wish to participate in Globalization we have to either get used to give and take policies or we must learn to work like them - for optimum pay without compromising on health/safety practices. I hope I'm understood now.