Is a lot of this anti-China fervor related to racism?
No, it's about the poor record of the Chinese Government over human rights abuses.
The warm up to Bejing 2008 Olympics has stirred everything up. The Olympic torch has been met with storms of protest as it was carried through European capitals - I know about London and Paris, and there were others I can't recall.
I take it that this is the next stage - boycott Chinese products and you're hurting the Chinese Governement. Of course you're not, you're hurting the factory workers, the very people you're trying to help, so such boycotting is misguided.
The fact that they've included 20 year old Playmobil figures that weren't made, assembled or painted in China makes this particular incident double misguided.
They could have includes some micro sets...but not the regular sized figures.
With 80% of the world's toys manufactured in China they've done particularly badly to pick one which we all know isn't.
I still think Playmobil should sue the pants off them. Who knows how much revenue they might lose in sales for such an event?
Lars, can you tell us the channel/programme, so we can also register our disgust at their poor reasearch?
