News of tainted Chinese exports rampaged through the media, and products for domestic consumption aren't safe either. 750 people have been arrested in a crackdown on fake and dangerous products, and the Chinese Government gave enormous prominence to the execution of a bribed official. I am not buying this. A system with no embedded accountability is the best soil for growing corruption and reaping its bitter fruits.
Parents who fed their newborns milk powder with a fraction of the claimed nutrients know this first-hand. We know this first-hand when we get injured by a product that made it to the stores only through currency-stuffed brown envelopes.
I can't be scandalized by the scarce attention paid by many Chinese producers to the safety of the products they peddle us. After all, we're not them, so what do they care.
But even with over a billion inhabitants, not fighting for the life of your own citizens just ain't right. How can one define a statist government that doesn't watch over the safety of the products on the shelves? Which words can describe this horror?
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/06D3F821-6801-40AA-B117-14B23D030A5B.htm
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