Over recent months, the public has been bombarded with news about dangerous products imported from China - toothpaste laced with a poisonous antifreeze ingredient, radial tires without the gum strip needed to prevent tread from separating, seafood products injected with a toxin, pet food with wheat gluten and rice protein contaminated with melamine. To date, China has had 23,000 food safety infractions of putting industrial additives in food products, which led to the recent execution of Zhena Xiaoyu, head of the nation's food and drug administration.
...Recent scandals involving potentially dangerous products imported from China have heightened this ...
China singles out U.S. products BEIJING - Turning the tables on the United States amid growing worries over dangerous Chinese products, Beijing said Friday some health supplements and raisins imported from the U.S. failed to meet China's safety standards and have been returned or destroyed.
The rash of revelations about defective products coming out of China is a reminder of what can happen when a country proceeds without the kind of government regulation that has developed over decades in Western countries. The Chinese economy has developed too fast -- and perhaps too determinedly -- for regulation to keep up. The list of faulty or dangerous products coming out of China lately is amazing, everything, it seems, from food to toys, from toothpaste to tires. Add these to the list of flatly illegal products coming from China -- pirated software, for example, and products falsely labeled with famous trade names -- and you have a sense of a country that had better change fast.
Many entrepreneurs are able to manage their businesses within relatively contained and familiar geographical and cultural circles. With a world economy shrinking every day amid a flood of digital information, today's entrepreneur is increasingly confronted with opportunities to consider new ways to secure vendors and recruit customers. Many unfamiliar possibilities emerge. Should the entrepreneur venture beyond "comfortable" surroundings to consider international connections? Specifically, what about China? How practical is this fetching business temptation of larger markets and lower-cost subcontractors? What are the social, trade, financial, and political issues? Should a "China strategy" be a true entrepreneurial offensive, or rather a defensive response to competition? Is this "Chin...
... markets, industries, companies, and products? ("Menu options"). * Who from "our little world" h...products that were deemed simply too dangerous for our own consumption were dumped on China and o...
..., and better protect the United States from terrorist attacks. One of the shortcomings that we... and analysts to locate and identify dangerous materials that may present a threat to transportat... of substandard, tainted, and dangerous products from China. The operation to date has resulted in ...
... because, due to the nature of the sources from which it is emitted and its short lifespan in the ... have been identified: 1) East Asia (eastern China, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia); 2) the Indo-Gang... and 2.2 percent of their gross domestic products, respectively. (25) . Although health concerns suc...(30) this is referred to as the zone of "dangerous anthropogenic interference" (DAI). (31) More than ...
The impact of globalization and worldwide competition has become excruciatingly noticeable in China. The purpose of this study is to examine China's transformation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to competitive, capable organizations by identifying the dominant challenges and forces for change to State-Owned Enterprises in China (SOE), the nature of SOE responses to those forces, and the degree of SOE success in making the necessary transformations to compete in a global business environment.
... stunningly triumphant for its transition from a command economy to a market-based economy and fo... for creating a spectacular array of new products and new services. Chongqing CHN & CHN Ceramics Co.... identify potential competitors is very dangerous. Managers need to create an organization with skil...
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... responsibility for the safety of the products on its shelves - 70 percent of which come from Chi... number one importer of goods from Communist China. More than 70 percent of goods on Wal-Marts shelve...In the past year, more than 25 dangerous products from China have been pulled from Wal-Mart...
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