>>Really, what about the legislation in those countries? I know there's a big push for legislation to be brought into existence there, which would protect intellectual rights (just track the travels of Bill Gates in the last ten years) - patents, copyrights, to the extent of spelling doom for local pharmaceutical industry. The push is coming from here, if I wasn't clear.
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>Elsewhere in this thread, I dropped a link to Al showing one view of the state of affairs in Taiwan circa 2001. Knowing the many years Taiwan has been manufacturing, I was suprised how far behind they were in this respect. The push, coming from here, to correct environmental problems, I doubt would have the pressure that your example above would have.
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>>Why is then a similar push omitted when it comes to environmental protection laws? Two words come to mind: "corporate" and "profit".
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>Thanks for providing my answer for me :-)

And the answer was incomplete. I have forgot the labor legislation, health system etc.