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Obama went to China and talked in a Q&A session, mentioning and supporting the ability to use the internet freely. Although there are a lot of criticism and rumors, it helps to strengthen our democracy. It forces the leaders to hear their critics' opinions so that they can improve their leadership and power. The internet can be a source of information or changing point for political relations. One of the questions mentioned in the session was from a Taiwanese concerned about the views on "one-China" and weapon selling to Taiwanese by the Americans. He had found some of this information on the Internet.

This article is about a book, and how it has ended the friendships between companies and employees. The article then goes into the topic of building a Boeing plane. A survey was sent out to the employees by the authors of this book to see if the company would make changes to its structure. However, many employees were laid off due to outsourcing. In the words of the article "Two aims of the outsourcing were to cut costs and to gain access to more foreign markets; both of those goals were largely achieved. " This shows that with outsourcing many people lost their jobs but the quality of the product was better than before. The 787Dreamliner had become much better with the technology used instead of the employees creating it. The employees were once treasured and considered themselves a family of sorts, but being replaced by Boeing they were obsolete and were easily expendable. The authors of the book say that anyone in top management should read this book and rethink their strategies for running the business. The book should also be read by the employees so they can work together to restore this idea of a family. The ethical issues in this idea of getting rid of workers so that better quality work can be done. By outsourcing jobs this allows the company to save more money than it would with having employees.