Brian Jee

As an Asian living in a Western world, I see both sides. From the film, sometimes it is really painful to see how Asian workers are sacrificing their right as individual without knowing it, but it is what made Japan, South Korea and now China prosper. We actually have plenty of examples where there is a growing economy, individual rights are easily ignored because keeping the rights creates inefficiency - remember, this also happened in the Western world during the industrial revolution era. It is just a timing difference. Some Asian countries are rich as. Even richer than Western countries. However, they still have not fully gone through the process that the first world Western countries had 100 years ago. Japan was poor after the WW2, South Korea was one of the poorest country till mid 20th century, China has just begun to develop. It has only been a few decades that these countries' economies become major in the world. Soon we, Asians, will also reach the time that we realise the importance of work-life-balance, labour union and individual rights etc. This will be faster than the Western world because there is history from countries who went before us - we will learn from you. Hence, it is not to say Asia has inferior cultures or Western people are too overconfident. In the end, we are the same, humanity is for one - like they said "we are one" in the film. But, I really hope Fuyao takes care of their staff safety and well-being.