Netizen claims product origin from China is concealed to trick Muslims

 

BEING A Malaysian, we are hard pressed to find products that are locally made. A trip to the nearest Mr DIY will reveal that most of the products come from, you know it, mainland China.

The same can be said to any other marts or convenience stores out there. In fact, if there is anything we could say about this, almost everything across the globe is made in China.

The only thing that is locally made is human babies. However, products from China do carry a reputation for being cheap and at times, low quality, so perhaps, they have a reason to conceal its point of origin?

Recently on X, a netizen complained that the label on the product package he bought has been purposefully printed on in such a manner to confuse the buyers.

The words, “Made in P.R.C,” was used instead of Made in China so it didn’t look obvious. Also, Arabic words were printed on the box to make it more appealing to  Muslim customers.

Is this a deliberate attempt to fool the local customers? Netizen @syfqz9 brushed it off, saying that all the religious attire, from the skullcap to the prayer mat is made in China anyway.

“My car is made in China too,” said @ZacZakirin13 while @ShamsudinDanny pointed out that sometimes, P.R.C also means coming from Taiwan.

According to @anwar_zharif who once lived in an Arabic country, most of the merchandise came from P.R.C too.

On another note, it can be quite difficult for customers to avoid buying items that are made in China. The website Investopedia said China is the world’s factory, with its economy thriving as a manufacturing powerhouse.

“Some may think the ubiquity of Chinese products is due to the abundance of cheap Chinese labor that brings down the production costs, but there is much more to it than that,” said the website. 

In addition to its low labor costs, China has become known as “the world’s factory” because of its low wages, strong business ecosystem, relatively lax commercial regulations, low taxes and duties, and competitive currency practices. Here, we review each of these key factors.

China is home to approximately 1.41 bil people, making it the most populous country in the world. The law of supply and demand tells us that since the supply of workers is greater than the demand for low-wage workers, wages stay low.

Moreover, the majority of Chinese were rural and lower-middle-class or poor until the late 20th century, when internal migration turned the country’s rural-urban distribution upside-down. These immigrants to industrial cities are often willing to work many shifts for low wages. —Focus Malaysia