"Some officials have ignored public opinion and turned a blind eye to people's hardships, even on major problems that affect people's lives and safety. We must learn a painful lesson." -- President Hu Jintao said in a speech Friday to senior Communist Party members.
Also see: America is more Communist than China”
BEIJING - China sought yesterday to shore up public confidence weakened by a milk safety scandal, with the president scolding officials for negligence and government agencies promising adequate supplies of uncontaminated milk.
The flurry of action is occurring as the government confronts one of the worst food safety crises in years. The apparently widespread contamination has rapidly become a political headache for a Communist government that hoped to be basking in praise for last month's successful Beijing Olympics.
Makes you wonder who was behind the scandal, what with the U.S. using the Tibetans and the earthquakes to hammer China and spoil their Olympic party.
Instead, the government is coping with an apparent coverup by local officials and being forced to rebuild public trust.
Something the AmeriKan government never worries about!
"Some officials have ignored public opinion and turned a blind eye to people's hardships, even on major problems that affect people's lives and safety," President Hu Jintao said in a speech Friday to senior Communist Party members. "We must learn a painful lesson."
Tainted, substandard food and medicines have plagued China for years as companies freed by free-market reforms and lax government oversight rushed to meet swelling demand created by rising living standards. Last year, the government promised to overhaul safety regimes after medicines, toys, and pet foods killed and sickened people and pets in North and South America and other export markets.
Yeah, our government didn't seem to give a shit then; otherwise, the stuff never would have made it here.
