Chinese government subsidies to its telecoms sector are fundamentally unfair, Europe's top trade official has said - just after he announced that the European Commission has dropped a planned unfair pricing investigation into EU imports of Chinese mobile equipment. European Union trade commissioner Karel De Gucht criticised …

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Monday 7th April 2014 07:51 GMT Khaptain

Justification

Can someone give a solid reason as to why the Chinese would consider "playing fair" in the game of world economics ?

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1. Monday 7th April 2014 07:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
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  The same reason the West does not. Self interest.
  
  How are we doing with allowing free trade with South America and Africa these days?
  
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Monday 7th April 2014 08:27 GMT southpacificpom

Sour Grapes

Well if the west didn't surrender their manufacturing base to China it may have had a bit more money to play with.

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Monday 7th April 2014 09:41 GMT Anonymous Coward

Funny

I never saw those commissioners complaining about the European companies that keep their businesses sucking Brussels subsidies by moving their factories toward new EU entrants. And lastly, they outsourced to Africa, South America and Asia. Parasites, in my opinion. Guess what, the majority are from Central Europe and Scandinavia.

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Monday 7th April 2014 14:04 GMT Alan Brown

Lines of credit have to be repaid - with interest.

Subsidies don't.

Those lines of credit are available to companies which have already proven themselves in the business arena. The chinese equivalent of Dell Boy Trotter doesn't get a look in.

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