The frenzied media lurch at China’s jugular over recent food, medicine and product export scares raises just one question: why is this so surprising?

Press pundits have demanded China clean up its act. Some want China to take responsibility for its carbon dioxide emissions, now apparently higher by volume than those of the US, although still a fraction in per-capita terms. Some commentators have gone as far as claiming that the country risks ruin if it fails to meet higher standards on product quality and the environment as buyers and markets shun the exports driving its “economic miracle”.

Seeing this as a one-way blame game is typical of some influential parts of the west’s media and corporations. It is also predictably blinkered.

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