Building A Better Wall
In Sunday's New York Times article titled, “China Moves to Change Damaged Global Image,” Times reporter David Barboza wrote at length about the challenges facing China and the steps the behemoth nation is taking to remedy the situation. New “controls” enacted by Beijing, a PR effort spearheaded by global experts at Ogilvy, greater openness and the willingness to work with everyone from the FBI to the World Health Organization are cited as just some of the steps being taken to fix the problem.
What struck me about this article, however, is that there’s no mention of actually FIXING the problems. It’s all about containment of the problem through regulation and inspection. It’s about beefing up the laws and their enforcement. However, none of that really addresses the root cause of the problem (you knew I’d have to work in, “root cause,” right?). While it’s true that there are and will always be parts of the economy, even big parts, that have no desire to play by the rules, we can’t assume enforcement is the ultimate solution. Doing so turns a blind eye to perhaps the bigger—and longer-term problem – poor quality.
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