Those of you who know me know that I am still pretty black and white in my political opinions. The operations case today discussed a company's decision to go to China, among the prime reasons, is that most of its clients are in Taiwan, and they wanted to serve their customer better by producing the machine closer to the customers.
So, I asked an obvious question. If they want to be close to their customers, why don't they manufacture their machines in Taiwan? I guess what most people don't know is that direct trade is not allowed between China and Taiwan, and everything must be shipped first to a third country before it arrives at the shore of taiwan.
The professor answered by saying Taiwan is pretty expensive comparing to China. Before he could finish his answer, one of the Chinese classmates in class yelled out loud: "Taiwan is a part of China." Much to my surprise, most of the class boo'ed him out. I almost wanted to say: "well, the fact that he has to make this statement probably suggests the truth is otherwise." But I didn't. I didn't want to make a scene in class. Knowing the Chinese, they will probably never stop arguing. It just wasn't the right forum (although past experiences have proven that they will argue the point in any forum).
What is it with these people? Why is everything political to them?
BTW, my name tag in class says "American".
(Oh, if you want to know, in the case, the company eventually decided to outsource to contract manufactures in China, then ship the parts to Taiwan, and had the machines assembled there.)
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