Public outrage is mounting in China over allegations that a major state-owned food company has been cutting costs by using the same tankers to carry fuel and cooking oil – without cleaning them in between.
The scandal, which implicates China’s largest grain storage and transport company Sinograin, and private conglomerate Hopefull Grain and Oil Group, has raised concerns of food contamination in a country rocked in recent decades by a string of food and drug safety scares – and evoked harsh criticism from Chinese state media.
It was an “open secret” in the transport industry that the tankers were doing double duty, according to a report in the state-linked outlet Beijing News last week, which alleged that trucks carrying certain fuel or chemical liquids were also used to transport edible liquids such as cooking oil, syrup and soybean oil, without proper cleaning procedures.
Even the Communist Party of China doesn’t think China is communist:
Ah, the “primary stage of socialism” where the billionaire class keeps growing and more and more private industry controlled by those billionaires arises. Yes, they’ll get there any day now.
Maybe they won’t get there. Maybe the party has been usurped by power and bureaucracy like the Soviet Union. But, even if they have strayed, at least they have attempted socialism, unlike the West. Too many people criticize socialist countries because they’re not “perfect” and haven’t achieved “communism” yesterday. Social-political change is messy, and the transition takes time.
Yes! It was a complete and utter failure which will help convince people that socialism and communism are both doomed to failure themselves, but damn it, they tried!
You would rather we not try at all? Be wary, cynicism will get us nowhere.
We? Are you the Chinese government? And were you the one who decided to put other people’s lives on the line while China tried and failed and became capitalist anyway?
We, as in humanity. No, I’m not Deng Xiaoping.
I see, so humanity tried communism and failed and therefore the 45 million people who died in China’s Great Leap Forward’s deaths were justified. Because China meant well.
Sorry you’re not feeling great. None of this matters in the great scheme of things: