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The boss of China's Food and Drug Administration was executed yesterday in China after being found guilty of accepting bribes woth more than $850,000 in return for approving fake medicines and contaminated food products. If we believe that the execution one corrupt official in China will solve the unsafe imports from China, we are fooling ourselves. This is more of a symbolic propaganda of sacrificing a high official fall-guy to show the West, from now on everything that comes from China will be pool proof safe.
The stakes are high for China, in the U.S. alone Chinese exports of only Food Products amount to $205 billion US. Add all other exports from DVD'S, toys, tools, clothing, etcetera, etcetera. With the Olympic Games preparation now running in cost over-runs in billions of dollars, with China expecting 2 million visitors to pour their foreign currency in China,China has to make a dramatic grandstage to punish one man for all it's ills.
No nation on earth has transformed itself during the past 20 years from a giant Cuba, a one uniform dress code and a bicycle third world country into today's world fourth largest economy. Much is owed to the genius of the late Deng Xia Ping, combining the politics of communism and western capitalism. Hopefully in the future, China will embrace democracy, but that is for the Chinese to decide. The Russian experience of sudden transition to democracy as well as capitalism has only benefited the corrupt and impoverished most of the nation.
Although China is in fast forward towards modernization, the truth of the matter is, it is still a developing nation and lags hundreds of years far behind the industrialized nations in its technology and quality controls, as capitalism was a major sin in the old communist China.
The impact of the exposed Chinese unsafe exports will choke the Dragon, bigtime, but only for a while, but the mystical animal will breathe fire again and we have to live with it, the West have tied itself to the Ancient East, there is no turning back! The reality is, Is there anything not made in China these days?

There is already a boycott of anything Chinese in many parts of the U.S. and Canada, some manufacturers and producers are already capitalizing on China's misfortune, labeling products as "China-Free
products", similar to the SARS and Chicken Virus believed to have oriiginated in China saw the boycott of many Chinese restaurants, but China survived as it will overcome this one.

It maybe wise to avoid certain Chinese products (except ) for our own precaution such as:
1) Fake toothpastes sold usually at Dollar or 99cents or Discount Stores.
2) Painted Toys contain lead a harmful substance for kids.
3) Pet foods contain melamine a deadly substance for cats and dogs.
4) Frozen fish and seafoods contain high amount of sulfur dioxide
And last but not the least: Avoid buying "orange chicken", for Christ's sake!, you should know!, chicken's skin is not supposed to be orange!!