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2009-01-22 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by john frum 2009-01-22 05:06|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 I agree with the chinese government on this one. If the US did more of these things..wall street might be a more honest place.

Posted by Omuth McGurque8303 2009-01-22 10:48|| 2009-01-22 10:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Gonna make 'em drink their own product?

Posted by mojo 2009-01-22 11:22|| 2009-01-22 11:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Gonna make 'em drink their own product?

No. It will be a rifle shot to the back of the head. The Chinese are quite efficient in their State Executions.

Posted by Spusosh the Prolific6862 2009-01-22 13:30|| 2009-01-22 13:30|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree with the chinese government on this one. If the US did more of these things..wall street might be a more honest place.

I disagree. My belief is that these people could not have done what they did without approval from the upper ranks of government. This is a state-owned company, after all, and information about the milk was disclosed to the Communist leadership in 2007. The Communists are picking out 21 scapegoats in lieu of giving out prison sentences to the thousands of party members and business people who poisoned the milk and compensating the parents whose babies were poisoned by the milk. Ultimately, if anyone's to be shot, it should be Hu Jintao, not his minions.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-01-22 15:52|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-01-22 15:52|| Front Page Top

#5 hurts the food industry huh. Ramen noodles stock is gonna slip

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-01-22 17:27|| 2009-01-22 17:27|| Front Page Top

#6 Word on the street is that the milk company CEO was highly-regarded within the company, and that the Chinese regulatory authorities had OK'd melamine as a milk additive (probably without either knowing about its effects or bothering to check its effects on humans). I think at worst, melamine adulteration by suppliers merits the closure of the company and the seizure of its assets, especially when Chinese regulatory authorities approved its use. Instead of reforming the appropriate regulatory authority and compensating the aggrieved, the Communists are executing someone who built the company up from scratch, had the company confiscated from her by greedy Party members, who then saddled her with the blame for an additive that they approved. If there's anyone who needs to be shot, it's Hu Jintao and the entire senior cohort of the Communist Party, not her. The real problem here isn't evil Chinese businessmen - it's lazy, conniving and murderous Party higher-ups who kill law-abiding scapegoats rather than look in the mirror for the real criminals.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-01-22 17:47|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-01-22 17:47|| Front Page Top

#7 @#6.

It's the Chinese way.

Posted by Spusosh at work. 2009-01-22 18:38|| 2009-01-22 18:38|| Front Page Top

#8 It's the Chinese way.

It's the Goodfellas way, with a twist. Restaurateur gives a share of his business to a mobster in exchange for "protection" that he never needed before that mobster's thugs showed up to give him a hard time. Over time, mobster takes over the restaurant and loots it. Then he burns it down for insurance. In Hu Jintao's China, the proprietor who got gypped even gets a life term.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-01-22 19:00|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-01-22 19:00|| Front Page Top

#9 and this is different from the Chicago Way, how?

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-01-22 20:05|| 2009-01-22 20:05|| Front Page Top

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