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Beijing Steamed Buns Include Cardboard
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Customers buy steamed buns, called baozi, at a sidewalk stall in Beijing Thursday July 12, 2007. An undercover investigation by a Chinese TV crew found that chopped cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, is a main ingredient in batches of baozi sold in a Beijing neighborhood. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
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I think they must use the same recipe at the local take-away!
Only kidding. I'm not famous for my consumption of pork, as flavouring for cardboard or otherwise.
On a more serious note it does show the Chinese have a big problem. For years we've been talking about China taking over as the next great economic power along with India. Trouble is China are just now discovering the benefits of economic liberalisation but are way behind with the process of getting the required framework into place to ensure the quality and safety of the products that their overseas market will demand.
It's not in their culture. These things evolve naturally in countries with free market economies where there is democracy and consumer power. Even then it takes takes and can be a bumpy ride.
China may well one day become that great all powerful economy but it may be longer than most people think before they get their act together well enough to make the necessary economic push. In the meantime there are other forces at work (political, cultural and social) and China may yet implode before it gets its chance to take over the world.
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#1 - Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:01 AM EDTI agree Dennis. They have so many changing forces there--it've very interesting from a sociological point of view, but not from a humanist point of view.
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