Commie produced products

[Chang]

Well, I recently found a sword I wanted to buy. I believe it a C.A.S. Iberia sword, the Zatoichi (named after the fictional blind swordsman). Then I realized it was made in mainland China, which at the moment is not controlled by the one and only true Chinese government (RoC on Taiwan!

), but is instead governed by a slave labor society of Reds.

A big disappointment, because I was thinking it was made in Taiwan, the true and free China.

This brings up an issue of ethics. If you were in my position, would you get the sword anyway? Assume your skin is yellow and your ethnicity is that of the only free China (Taiwanese). Also assume that you are strongly anti-communist and was not the least bit amused by them, the fake Chinese government, running over demonstrators with tanks.


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Chang the Asian Janitorial Apparatus
President of Changmade Knife Company
<B>Held to a lower standard!<B>

 

[James Mattis]

I had one customer sometime back order a CAS-Iberia Viking Sword, which I don't list on my page. So I got the sword for him and sentit to him along with a check for the bulk of my "margin" made out to the Tibet Fund, for him to forward to them. Can't do a lot of volume those terms, however.

So it ain't just POS CloneKnives that are coming from the PRC. CAS-Iberia showed off some very attractive new custom collaborations at the Blade Show, including a lockback by Lake, a large damascus fixed blade by Moran, and some "dark side of the force" fantasy pieces by Virgil England. And all of them are stamped, in very tiny little letters, made in the PRC.

Damn.

And of course I do more trade with the enemy by having money in a diversified stock portfolio than I do with any cutlery I buy. And there are some whole classes of products now where it is difficult or impossible to find them made anywhere that can sneak into a discussion of free countries in a good week.

And this thread probably belongs over in POLITICS, so that's where I'm sending it.

And why does being an anti-Communist nowadays sometimes get me classed as a liberal?



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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
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