Chinese = Quality

"Foreign media have fuelled unfounded fears about Chinese products, the nation's top quality official has said, as China blocked a U.S. protein powder shipment while the two countries sparred over safety worries. Chinese inspectors announced that a protein powder from a U.S. supplier contained too much selenium and was being sent back, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. An editorial in the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the ruling Communist Party's official paper, said it was inevitable that the country's rising exports would face tighter scrutiny from choosy foreign customers. But it also blamed foreign forces seeking to undermine Chinese industry."

The problem with the Chinese reaction to substandard food/products is it suggests they aren't taking the problem as seriously as the situation merits. Sometimes the Chinese government behaves like a young spoiled child: when caught off guard or with its hand in the cookie jar, it goes hunting for scapegoat. More frightening still is that it often believes its own propoganda.