Strongbox wrote:
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:21:16 -0700 (PDT), RichA wrote:

Where there's smoke there's fire. The Chinese have been caught out
hundreds of times shipping contaminated products abroad. Now, they'll
do anything to protect their overseas markets so they are quick to do
something about those products when they get CAUGHT. But who knows
how many of their own people have sickened and died because of this
kind of thing? I'll bet they were positively surprised when they
realized life isn't treated as cheaply in the West as it is in the
East.

My neighbor lost three show dogs to the tainted pet food awhile back due to
the Chinese contamination.


Remember "cheap Japanese" products from the 60's?

Then during the 70's they had a quiet quality revolution and by the
mid-80's the notion of "cheap Japanese" products disappeared.

The same will happen in China (and many companies there are already
producing to 6 Sigma performance). It will take time to weed out the
worst and improve the best. By 2020 or so, China will be where S. Korea
is today in quality terms and in far more companies. The shoddiest will
disappear (unlike Japan the Chinese do not have a culture of protecting
failing companies, at least that I've heard of).

The government, recognizing the danger of tainted (deliberately or
otherwise) products, will impose stricter standards.