Why Mattel Apologized to China
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Analysis: The company admits that most of its toy recalls were due to its own design flaws, not Chinese manufacturers. Lesson: Mattel needs China as much as China needs Mattel
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Mattel Inc. tried to save face Friday with Chinese officials, taking the blame for the recent recalls of millions of Chinese-made toys as it strives to mend a strained relationship with the nation that makes most of its toys and fattens its profit.
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Japan says China has apologized for one of its submarines sailing into Japanese waters last week. China has refused to confirm the apology, saying only that a &quot;diplomatic&quot; resolution has been reached.
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China has expressed regret over a  request by the European Union, the United States and Canada for  a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel to hear their complaint  about China's tariff treatment of foreign auto parts.
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The toy train recall is about the realities of offshoring and it isnât clear that anyone involved has learned not to make the same mistakes again.
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China highlighted Mattel's apology over its recall of huge numbers of toys on Monday to press its claim that Chinese exports are generally safe and foreign politicians and media have unfairly hyped quality scares.
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For China, it could reinvigorate a chip industry that has slowed over the past few years as major chip makers posted a string of money-losing quarters. It also represents a token of goodwill by Taiwan to political enemy China.
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FOSHAN, China  - Boxes stacked in the factory window are labeled clearly: "Fisher-Price", "toys", "preschool". The future of the plant, though, is not so clear.
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Lionhead supremo Peter Molyneux has taken the unprecedented step of apologising to fans on an official message board for any features that were described during Fable&#39;s development that didn&#39;t make it into the final game.
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The world's biggest toy maker, Mattel, has apologised to senior officials in Beijing for blaming Chinese suppliers over a spate of recalls of substandard products.
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By Jenny Gilbert The words &quot;made in Taiwan&quot; are often the butt of jokes, usually about cheap electronic goods or short-lived plastic toys.
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Toy maker apologises for blaming Chinese suppliers over a spate of recalls of substandard products.
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China extended an apology Tuesday to Tokyo after admitting that one of its submarines intruded into Japan&#39;s territorial waters off Okinawa last week, an incident it laid to &quot;technical errors,&quot; Japanese officials said.
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Mattel CEO Robert Eckert   defended his company&#39;s toy safety record on Wednesday as two  skeptical Democratic lawmakers accused him of stonewalling a  congressional probe into production practices in China linked  to millions of recalled toys.
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Sometimes an apology is the best policy.
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Mattel  has only itself to blame  for a huge toy recall that has stoked global alarm about  Chinese-made goods, state media said on Thursday, charging that  a slew of foreign safety scares had exposed a protectionist  agenda.
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Toymaker Mattel Inc on Tuesday announced a third recall of Chinese-made toys, saying it would take back more than 800,000 units globally that contain "impermissible" levels of lead.