From AP via SignOnSanDiego.com: Sweeping majorities of Americans say U.S. consumers, companies and the government deserve at least some blame for the rash of unsafe products from China, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Thursday. With the tally of Chinese goods bearing high levels of chemicals and toxins growing almost daily, people in the […]
Read MoreAP reports on U.S.-China talks aimed at resolving safety issues with Chinese exports. From AP: Beijing and Washington have wrapped up their first meeting aimed at resolving safety problems with Chinese products, a step that one expert said yesterday was crucial if China wanted to protect its image abroad and preserve stability at home. The […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: The one-child policy combined with a large aging population means pensions are in danger of falling short. What’s the solution? Time is running out for China’s pension system. The one-child policy has created the 1-2-4 phenomenon within many of the country’s households – one child, two parents and four grandparents. With the […]
Read MoreFrom AP today: “The World Health Organization is calling on China to improve road safety, saying an estimated 680 people are killed each day on the country’s highways. WHO officials say the problem is growing worse as the number of vehicles in China skyrockets. The World Health Organization presented its World Report on Road Traffic […]
Read MoreGlobal Times’ Chang Meng describes an ongoing campaign against road safety violations as typical of short-term, unsustainable crackdowns whose effects barely outlast the campaigns themselves. “You insane people,...
Read More20 people, including 18 preschool students, died Wednesday when a school bus collided with a coal truck in Gansu province, according a local work safety bureau official. From Xinhua News: The accident happened around 9:40 a.m....
Read MoreReuters and the Chinese newspaper Yan Zhao Metropolis through their reports all point out that, “China has the most dangerous roads in the world, with accidents killing almost 100,000 people last year, or about 270 a day.” From Reuters: ……China has the most dangerous roads in the world, with accidents killing almost 100,000 people last […]
Read MoreFor college students in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province, it was a brief moment of freedom: a short-lived craze for cycling overnight on ride-share rental bikes to the nearby city of Kaifeng for a bit of fun, food, and...
Read MoreLess than a week after a shocking “Xianzhong” car attack that left 35 dead in Zhuhai, a recent graduate of a Jiangsu technical school stabbed eight people on the campus to death. On Tuesday, a man rammed elementary school...
Read MoreA veil of silence has fallen around the car ramming attack that killed 35 and injured 43 in Zhuhai, Guangdong, this Monday. The shocking attack—the most deadly “Xianzhong” incident in a year marked by them—has become a highly...
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