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June 13, 2007 at 08:45:52

China Faces Crisis of Credibility Before Olympics

by John Carey Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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China has a crisis on its hands. With less than a year to the final run up to the Beijing Games next summer, Chinese pet food has killed American pets; Chinese toothpaste has been found to contain thinners that are poisonous; Chinese catfish are prohibited by Alabama and Mississippi because of high levels of antibiotics; a company in California has recalled “monkfish” from China because it is probably really puffer fish containing the toxin chemical tetrodotoxin.

On Tuesday, June 12, 2007, China’s number two envoy in Washington DC went on the assault to explain the rigor China uses to police and ensure the safety of all products including food.

Chinese Embassy Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission Zheng Zeguang said “certain isolated cases” should not be “blown out of proportion” to mislead the American public into thinking that all food and drugs from China are unsafe. He reiterated that all products coming from China were safe.

Meanwhile, the Chinese charm offensive continued in Beijing.

Vice Minister for the State Administration for Industry and Commerce Li Dongsheng took more than 100 reporters from the international media on a tour of a government facility that houses seized fake products. Fake, tainted or adulterated products from soy sauce to chewing gum were on display.

Mr. Li said, “Yes, there are now some problems of food safety of Chinese products. However, they are not serious. We should not exaggerate those problems.”

Mr. Li said “very good, very complete methods” are used by China to regulate product safety.

“We are very concerned about food safety in China and very concerned about protecting the rights of consumers,” Mr. Li said. “But we do not want to cause panic among the people.”

Well let’s just make two points.

First, these guys, especially Mr. Li, might lose their jobs if not their freedom or their lives if they cannot turn around the impression in the international community that companies in China adulterated products to make money; that these adulterated products, in some cases, were toxic; and that China’s “very good, very complete methods” to get these products out of the “food chain” just didn’t cut the [adulterated] mustard.

And, Second, and more importantly, China has a history, tradition and culture of cheating the other guy.

We call this the “culture of corruption.”

The communist government in China knows this is the case so they do not allow a free press to operate and every single case of tragic wrong-doing results in a flurry of face-saving shows, demonstrations and explanations of how well we do our busines in China.

China’s government acts like a fourth grader caught in the act of smoking a cigarette and then says, “What cigarette?”

A case in point: in 2003, China faced an epidemic of a disease called Severe Acute Reparatory Syndrome (SARS).

Three things happened when China realized it had an epidemic on its hands. In Phase One, China covered up the problem and denied it existed. Phase Two was a flurry of activity to impress the international community that China was on top of the situation. Most of this was for show and didn’t contribute a thing toward ending the epidemic. Finally, China launched Phase Three: a show and charm offensive to convince the world that it did a great job solving the problem.

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John E. Carey is the former president of International Defense Consultants, Inc.

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Charm offensive? Heatlhcare Crisis?

After invading two countries, killing about a million people and destroying the peace in Middle East forever OUR president unleashed a ' charm offensive' in Europe where he seems to be loved only by Albanians, who BTW do not see the difference between him and Clinton. Talk about charm offensive...

And here is something about the context:

'Like many other things in China, the medical system was mostly a sham. After graduating from medical school, the best educated medical professionals in China went to the west to work.'

I would replace ' China' by the ' US" here. No, the med graduates do not go ' west' here. They milk the people here. OUR healthcare is a shame and an abomination. We have a obesity pandemia on our hands and about 50% of the people take drugs regularly. That's what we need to look at.

by Mark Sashine (50 articles, 19 quicklinks, 244 diaries, 3453 comments) on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 9:00:59 AM

Retired Educator Who Believes in a Constitutional Government of equal citizens.I d/p>I believe in the right of an active informed Citizenry to formulate responsible policy. I believe in hand counted paper ballots. We need small group meetings where a citizens can gather periodically give voice to their concerns, make decisions and act politically to implement their decisions.
Bucky the CommonerRetired Educator Who Believes in a Constitutional Government of equal citizens.I d/p>I believe in the right of an active informed Citizenry to formulate responsible policy. I believe in hand counted paper ballots. We need small group meetings where a citizens can gather periodically give voice to their concerns, make decisions and act politically to implement their decisions.

The Chinese are cynical utilitarians

The Chinese are cynical. Their actions show that they do not value human life either inside China or outside of China. They blend both Capitalist and Communist Ideologies to accomplish their objectives because they do not believe in either Ideology.

Their actions betray a crass, cynical, utilitarian mindset.

Maybe when their environment becomes so toxic from their polluting activities their captive population will send all their Capitalist and Communist bureaucrats out to do gardening.

by Bucky the Commoner (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 44 comments) on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 2:09:27 PM

American against War and Violence. Writer, English Teacher, Inventor, Creator of the First Manmade Floating Farm On The Ocean.... My companies name is ACET: Algae Charcoal Ethanol Technicorp. We grow Algae for Oil.
Dom JermanoAmerican against War and Violence. Writer, English Teacher, Inventor, Creator of the First Manmade Floating Farm On The Ocean.... My companies name is ACET: Algae Charcoal Ethanol Technicorp. We grow Algae for Oil.

How Can I Like You John?

I think most of the chinese problems are due to the pressure and lies the West puts on the people. I can think of much more poisoning the USA does everyday and not a peep from John Carey about this?

How about the Kiribati people John? You know in the S.Pacific where we dropped 36 Atomic Bombs during Operation Dominic. We all know how bad Chernobyl and 3 Mile Island was. But this makes them look like dog dung on your shoe. Ever wonder how much contaminated radioactive fish you have eaten? Ever wonder why some strange diseases just seem to come along? Why SARS? Why Bird Flu? Why Cancers? Why Alzheimers? Seems to me if we detonate 36 Atomic Bombs in the Worlds Atmosphere that is loaded with radioactivity we are bound to be spewing and blowing that stuff around the planet, causing genetic, health, problems.

Who takes responsibility for that John? That doesn't include the good people of Nevada who were exposed to radiation. And those underground tests are safer? Think again.. what happens to our underground water table, wells, and rain runoff? Right Radiation poisoning, and probably chemicals that don't register geiger counter readings.

Oh you evil finger pointing peanut butter licker...Get real man, pull it out of your nose. And don't forget the two Atomic Bombs you people dropped on Japan targeting innocent civilians instead of their military. You think that was an isolated drop? Think any of it has reached the shinning shores of American? Of course.

Who is responsible John? Who has caused the world to be born with deformed genetic defected babies who now are in power in world governments but can't reason or understand the truth because of radioactive poisoning unknown to them. So we lash out them for being evil? We blame binLadin, or Saddam, or any convenient poor bugger..Even China, because who cares right John?

I think you are a China basher and hater, instead of a humanist. You aren't a man of reason, or a man who solves issues. Like Bush, your only answer is hate, war, and warnings. How can I like you John?

By the Way John, the Kiribati people live in obscure poverty. They can't even afford to send a representative to the UN. Now that is poor. How about helping to understand why we really have these evils in the world? I would think it came from our own backyard. If we don't pay for our own injustice to humanity, how do you expect the rest of the world to listen to you? Impossible, given what we have done. Ohhhhhhhhhhh! the pain we create and still we don't up from down, in from out, or truth form lies. You have made insanity a houseword.

by Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 930 comments) on Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 10:08:46 PM