Local businessman reports on Bell’s China trip
Written by Kristen Criswell | | krapin@toledofreepress.comMayor Mike Bell is being well received in China, according to Mike Farrar, a businessman who was on the trip.
“He was incredible well received,” said Farrar, owner of Automation and Control Technologies, which is located in Northwood, with an office Shanghai. “I’ve been in China for a number of years and know the cultural mindset. I think the Chinese are interested in pursuing opportunities in Toledo because of the mayor.”
The mayor’s delegation met with a number of businessmen, both American and Chinese as well as government officials. The group visited Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Ordos, Yulin and Beijing.
Farrar didn’t want to share too many details, because he doesn’t want to “steal the mayor’s thunder,” but said the trip is positive for Toledo.
“I think this trip is going to bear a lot more fruit than a lot of people think,” Farrar said. “I think the people of Toledo have two very good leaders in [Bell] and [Deputy Mayor] Dean Monske. They’re the first two private-sector minded people in government I’ve ever been around. I think Toledoans should be proud. They will lead Toledo into a new area of success.”
Farrar noted that there may be misconceptions that this trip was spontaneous, but he said that it was extremely well-planned ahead of time.
The delegation of Bell and area businessmen and women arrived in China on Sept. 11. Farrar returned to the U.S. on Sept. 17, while the mayor and the rest of the delegation will be back Sept. 20, Farrar said.
Tags: China, Dean Monske, Mike Bell, Mike Farrar
By the Monitor’s Editorial Board The Monitor’s Editorial Board – Fri Sep 17, 3:17 pm ET
Timothy Geithner refuses to call China a “manipulator” of its currency rate, as many in Congress want him to do. Yet the Treasury secretary spares no words about another unfair trade practice in China: The theft of software, movies, technology, and other American innovations that deprive the US of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Here’s how Mr. Geithner described Chinese stealing of American intellectual property rights during congressional hearings Thursday:
“Rampant,” “widespread,” “huge,” “negative,” “piracy,” and (the word with the most punch), “unacceptable.”
Just a day later, China again showed how unethical it can be in the outright taking of inventions. The Wall Street Journal reported that Beijing is asking foreign automakers that want to make or sell electric cars in China to, in effect, hand over their secret technology. (Call it grand theft electric auto.)
Christian Science Monitor
By the Monitor’s Editorial Board – Fri Sep 17, 3:17 pm ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100917/cm_csm/326560
This has been an evolving theme for the last ten years of interaction with the PRC.
This comment was posted on September 19th, 2010 at 8:46 amMariner, is spot on target regarding China’s, theft of technology / patents here in America.
In fact, where ever the Chinese are here in America, theft of intellectual property is their primary mission.
The manipulation of their currency is the least of our problems with them.
No need to worry though, OweBaMao, is one the case.
This comment was posted on September 20th, 2010 at 10:30 amAmerica’s poverty rate is NOW the highest in 51 YEARS !!!
CHANGE THAT MATTERS …yeah, change your diapers !