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I hope you are enjoying the video we have been watching in class, The People's Republic of Capitalism.  If you missed seeing it because you weren't in class, it is on the web here.  The Jib Jab video Big Box Mart can be found here.

I have a slight correction to something I said in class:  80% (not 86%) of the items that Walmart stocks are made in China (source: ChinaToday.com).  Still quite a bit, don't you think?

Consider these questions:  When you buy something at a big-box retailer, do you read the label to find out the country of origin?  Would that influence your purchasing decisions?

These and more intriguing questions will follow as we continue to study how connected we are to China in our unit on economic geography.