Forty years after one-million Red Guards were chanting slogans glorifying the peasants and workers, Background Briefing on ABC Radio National finds a new revolutionary zeal in China, and these days the hero is not Chairman Mao, but ‘The Customer’.
The worlds biggest retail company, Wal-Mart, is China’s fourth largest trading partner, and the result is one of the most dramatic economic shifts since the industrial revolution. Tariffs are again in the air. There is international unease about labour laws, fair trade or free trade and the power of economic supremacy.
The Radio National program investigates the Wal-Mart effect and China.
The program is available on podcast: Background Briefing
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Wake Up Wal Mart