There've been dogfood and seafood, even toothpaste scandals. There have been scandals over water and air pollution and the role of local government in concealing it. Now it's China's high-speed train lines that have been hit.
A report in the China Economic Times says that big amounts of substandard or even bogus materials went into several hundred kilometres of a new, high-speed rail line between the cities of Wuhan ande Guangzhou. The paper's investigation found that the fraud could result in cracking in the rail line's concrete supports.
The Globe & Mail reports that the Chinese are now admitting problems arising out of counterfeit cellphone batteries that tend to explode. One Chinese man died when the cellphone in his shirt pocket exploded sending fragments of his ribs into his heart. The battery was labelled Motorola but was a cheap fake.
China has a serious quality-control and counterfeiting problem. It's making feeble efforts to tackle the problems but it's also trying to pass much of it off as Western protectionist propaganda. Good luck with that fellas but I'm not buying.
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