TOW 19

            After so much money has flowed into China due to their cheap labor costs some of it is finally coming back.  In “Choose me! No, me!” The Economist, a prominent financial magazine with a mainly educated, older audience, paints a picture of how small town American politicians are looking towards Chinese investors as a way of supplying jobs.  One strategy that helps get the essays point across is the way in which it is structured.  The article starts out by talking about a specific Alabaman mayor, Sheldon Day.  Day is spotlighted because he has visited China a few times all in an effort to bring back jobs, and has even done so through his convincing of one company to build its first factory on U.S. soil.  From this specific example zooms out wide to talk about the topic on a nation wide scale talking about such things as China’s direct investments in America raising by about 71% a year between 2008 and 2012.  After this it cites a few more specific examples only spending about a sentence or two on each.  From there it moves more to the controversy of the topic, talking about how some people are reluctant to let their mayors spend their tax money on expensive trips to China, and if it’s really something that they should be doing.  The last thing the article does is leave it on a controversy, that an Alabaman business delegation said that they would love to gain investments from a Chinese company, Huawei, which has been accused of cyber spying by people in Washington.  It uses this to come full circle saying that Mayor Day would not go that far.  This structuring worked well because it showed a little bit of everything and flowed well.  It talked about specifics and the overall, positives and the negatives and the extent to which it would go.  In all the way this essay was written furthered the points they were trying to get across effectively.