Chinese Economics Thread
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Hendrik_2000
Lieutenant General
I check those website and most of recall are due to food poisoning. The fact that they make the recall show that the system work. Thye voluntary recall the product. There is big difference between malice intent to hide defect in a product. And inadvertent failure due to oversight or poor quality control
The defect vaccine is certainly belong to the first .They know it is ineffective but keep selling it!
And the government regulator caught it
It's really a stretch to compare China's food and drug safety situation to those of developed nations today. Better comparisons can be made to the US, Japan, and Europe in the 1920s-1970s.
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Aren't you aware that China has seen MULTIPLE vaccine scandals in the past decade? The public backlash has only increased after each incidence.
duncanidaho
Junior Member
Here is a list of food scandals in Europe i remember
ad Taiwan
The first time I heard about 地溝油 was 1992 in Taiwan in the TV-News. So the 地溝油 scandal goes for more than 20 years.
ad Japan
Here is list of drug scandals
The western MSMs have a short memory, when it comes to their own food and drug scandals but a long when it comes to chinas.
If there is no objective evaluation of actions then all that left is the capture of the subject of discussion.
By this way one country can keep the discussion about someone blowing up a building and few thousand civilian, and rejecting any trial to direct the discussion to his bombing and killing few million civilian.
"whataboutism" is nothing else just a trial by the attacker to keep the initiative in the discussion, and keep away the topic from the non convenient areas.
Say, an average US citizen has three hours of time for international politics.
If you can fill up this time with "russian meddling in elections" , "Chinese aggression over the South Chinese sea ", "Russia invading Ukraine " ,"North Korea prepare to attack the US", "Russia killing innocents in Syria " , "Iran support ISIS " and the line is infinite.
If you can fill up the time of your citizens with this topics, then you don't have to worry about that they can develop informed/objective view about world events.
The above is the reason that developed the need of independent judiciary.
However this doesn't exist in the international politics, on that field all that dominate is the "stronger get it all" .
Means it is always OK to drop nuclear bombs onto cities, fire bomb and kill 100 000 civil , or kill millions of civilians by starvation or terror bombing IF you win the war.
Everything afterwards is only "whataboutism"
.It will change, in ten years of time the USA will practice the art of "whataboutism" : )
solarz
Brigadier
This is ridiculous.
The only way to understand how well a nation is doing is to compare it to other nations. That's the basis of every national metric there exists, from economy to military to crime.
There's a reason corporations issue voluntary recalls, and it's not because they're particularly moral. It's because issuing recalls is cheaper than losing a class action lawsuit.
In order for China to reach the same level of consumer confidence, China needs to implement similarly grave consequences for companies that sell unsafe goods.