I can't understand why china uses both Aussi and US-style plugs simultaniously
Surely at this stage they should drop the US-style connector and move to 2 pin crowfoot for class II appliances.
I would bet that the use of American-style parallel-blade devices is a legacy of WWII-- Japanese, not American, influence. Not sure how they got the crowfoot, though.
I agree it would make sense to standardize on the Aus/NZ configuration, since that is reportedly the most common in China. It is an enormous and increasingly affluent market. We're not talking some small island here. At least the voltage and frequency are the same all over the country.
[This message has been edited by yaktx (edited 01-03-2006).]
