Wis. gov: China wants dairy help
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Jim Doyle says China wants Wisconsin's help with dairy production.
Doyle is on a trade mission to the Far East. Speaking by phone from Shanghai on Monday, Doyle says the Chinese produce only milk and powdered milk. He says they recognize Wisconsin as the leading dairy state and want help from Wisconsin businesses in developing processed dairy products.
He also says Chinese companies are eyeing Milwaukee's Northridge Mall as a potential base for Chinese retail goods and China's shortage of usable water offers Wisconsin purification companies great opportunities.
Doyle returns to Wisconsin on Wednesday.

Sep 21, 2009 at 8:10 p.m.
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This sounds like a weasel-y way for the Chinese to take over dairy production and sell it back to us. Here's an idea: we keep our dairy farms, and the chinese keep their lead-paint, bird flu, cheap crap that breaks 10 minutes after getting it home. This is ridiculous.
Sep 21, 2009 at 7:38 p.m.
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Ah yes, while pay freezes, layoffs, increased taxes and every sort of economic bad news affects everyone else, Diamond Jim continues his world travels on our dime. How's that train coming along, Jim? Still going to build train cars in the abandoned G.M. plant in Janesville, are you?
Sep 21, 2009 at 5:19 p.m.
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"He also says Chinese companies are eyeing Milwaukee's Northridge Mall as a potential base for Chinese retail goods"
What are they going to do? Tear Northridge down and build a massive WalMart Super-Duper Megamart in its place?
It would seem like a 'no-brainer' for Wisconsin to pass on their request for help, but if Wisconsin doesn't do it, some other Governor will sell out.
On the other hand, let's say every state denied help developing Chinese dairy facilities, and let's also pretend that China was totally dependent on America for its cheese needs.... I think that would backfire on us, in the end, as all those thousands of new jobs in the American cheese industry were whittled away by undocumented, illegal aliens willing to do what should be well paying jobs for minumum wages. I can just see it now.... "Nobody wants to make cheese in America, so we come to do the jobs you won't do". Bla blah BLAH blah blah....
Sep 21, 2009 at 4:49 p.m.
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Is Doyle part Chinese? :)
Sep 21, 2009 at 3:17 p.m.
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Which country is he working for anyways? I bet he is making all sorts of under-the-table deals.
Sep 21, 2009 at 2:52 p.m.
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HEY DOYLE, F*&K THE CHINESE, they will take are recipes add alot of filler and sell it back to us as wisconsin cheese. let's keep our little pride in what we have to ourselves and quit selling us, Most of us did not vote for you and your done after this term. goodbye! you will be known as a nothing but a governor who raises taxes.
Sep 21, 2009 at 1:53 p.m.
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While I agree that doyle is wasting time and our money on this trip, maybe he was ordered there by the chinese??? they own us now you know!
Sep 21, 2009 at 1 p.m.
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We need to keep China from getting it's tenticles in any more American interests. Unless them jack asses want to buy FROM us with equal taxes on trade goods, I say Doyle needs to thumb his nose to them. I don't buy goods made outside of the U.S.A. unless I have to, spread the word.
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Seems a little suspicious, this article, because China has everything, including all climates and technology.
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I agree with you.....why is Doyle on this mission? Seems out of place for a Governor, but that's how Dems do it. Always forgetting about the basics and going for some unreasonable and/ or unapplicable goal.
Sep 21, 2009 at 12:35 p.m.
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WTF is Doyle doing in China? This is a BUSINESS endeavor, that should be entertained by BUSINESS interests. I can't make it any more simple. Oh, I get it, he's applying for a new posh job in the Wisconsin dairy industry.
Sep 21, 2009 at 12:03 p.m.
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Finally, some Chinese goods will make it to Wisconsin!
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