Musings of a modern guy

For many weeks now, China has been facing a huge bad press in terms of tainted milk. For quite some time now, many manufacturers in China have been trying to make additional profit by adding melamine to milk (with the same milk being used as baby milk, and as part of milk products such as [...]

The growing ‘melamine’ tainted milk scandal is taking on a more international hue. Earlier, projected to mostly impact only milk products made for babies in China, it is covering a whole lot of different products and countries. Categories such as powder, chocolates, candies, ice cream, etc are all getting affected, and recalls have been happening [...]

China has been suffering from some serious bad press over an extended period due to low quality of some of its exports. This continued reporting of quality problems has started to affect the company’s reputation, and this latest report by the WHO over deliberate delays in reporting of the melamine in milk scandal would only [...]

For the last many years, China has been the leading supplier of a large range of goods to the world. Unfortunately, for the last few years, China has also been facing the brunt of massive quality problems. Seafood, paint, toys, toothpaste, and many other products have been found to be contaminated in one way or [...]

Seems like a very obvious statement to make, given how China has reacted in the past. Ever since China took over Tibet in 1951, it has been extremely touchy about any external reaction on Tibet, dismissing all reaction as being an interference with its internal affairs. A lot of it is due to how China’s [...]

It is being reported that China is currently upto its usual practice of repression. Nobody can really forget the Tienanmen Square massacre of 1989 where China employed its soldiers and military machine to murder thousands of its own young citizens in cold blood. After that, China employed the same tactics against the practitioners of the [...]