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Despite blatant issues, China still has a political agenda to try and prove their safety concerns. A rare seen expression of caution for this week’s current event, Chinese Reject Imported Meat.
China has been blatantly putting its goals for economic growth at a premium while ignoring possible negative externalities. It is the policies themselves that in effect have further divided and created a rocky situation for China’s future. It is caused by the mess of being decentralized, having split urban and rural policies, locked in low-end industry, globalization and a division of benefits in which the exploitation of resources isn’t even evenly split among the rural and urban citizens. There have been changes in policy but no actual direction in enforcement.
Even though I study Chinese (Mandarin), I’ve always talked it down as being such a big opportunity. Since I had studied abroad there, China has always stood out as having a list of unresolved issues. They might have the money to make the Olympics in 2008 look good for Beijing and China but the issues are real and intense. It can be overlooked in the new and be a lot to follow. Most people see China as a land of growth and opportunity but with limited resources, social unrest, and the recent scandals with botched products there are still many obstacles to overcome. Each year there are more and more protests reported and recorded by the central government. You can assume underreporting and poor documentation of these things anyways. Recently over 70,000/yr. major protests were recorded. There is a high level of uncertainty with China. Hopefully these quotations can evaporate the dream clouds that many see over China.
