from worldcrunch....
"It’s not easy to be Catholic in China. But it is easy to make money from Catholicism. And for Chinese manufacturers keen to cash in on the religion, there’s no better market than Brazil, whose ports are bursting with containers filled with Chinese-made images of Our Lady of Aparecida, Brazil’s patron saint.
Local producers, however, are now praying for help, saying there’s no way they can compete with their Chinese counterparts, who are able to churn out the patron saint far more cheaply. Although they haven’t yet filed an official complaint to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, when they do, it will open a new chapter in the two countries’ trade disputes"..............READ MORE
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