15 JANUARY 2005, Page 22

Made in China

From Marguerite Maddox Sir: By chance I read Martin Vander Weyer’s article on the impotence of China as a putative superpower (‘China won’t be a superpower’, 8 January) on the same day that I had visited my local House of Fraser. Browsing in its glass and china department, I was astonished to pick up piece after piece of Royal Worcester and Royal Doulton to be assured by the stick-on label that they were all made not of but in China. I came to the very opposite conclusion to that of your writer.

Marguerite Maddox

Swansea