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submitted 4 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 109 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sure, China is a dictatorship, but in return they are:

  • Just as corrupt in industry.

  • In Decline from their once amazing rate of people exiting poverty.

  • Losing all of their trade partners.

  • Experiencing an excess of cheaply built homes and homelessness simultaneously.

  • Are being forced out of the global tech economy.

  • Fully reliant on Russian Oil.

  • More likely to enter new wars every day.

  • Incapable of managing their own agriculture sector.

If that is all it takes to get rid of landlords...

shrugs

[-] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 52 points 4 months ago

China is a dictatorship, but ultracapitalist with fewer regulations. They do crack down occasionally. Source: lived there. It is both a capitalist and communist shitshow.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

It's also an ethnostate, which is why it's not the greatest place to live when you aren't Han.

[-] turmacar@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

I know what you're talking about, but got an image of Harrison Ford being absolutely pampered in China. Which in fairness would probably happen.

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[-] SleezyDizasta@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

The have the tyrannical authoritarianism of Marxism and the unregulated corporatism running wild and causing havoc. It's truly the worst of both worlds.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

Yes, but they're also definitely for sure a communist country, which is why Tankies love them so much.

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago

Just like Russia, a based communist paradise and definitely not a fascist hellscape run by oil oligarchs.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

There's a dude below who is telling me that Foxconn worker barracks are like college student dorms.

College student dorms:

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Even the Communist Party of China doesn’t think China is communist:

In the party's official narrative, socialism with Chinese characteristics is Marxism adapted to Chinese conditions and a product of scientific socialism. The theory stipulated that China was in the primary stage of socialism due to its relatively low level of material wealth and needed to engage in economic growth before it pursued a more egalitarian form of socialism, which in turn would lead to a communist societydescribed in Marxist orthodoxy.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

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.

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[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 months ago

You have been banned from Lemmy.ml

[-] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 months ago

I thought you were riffing off r/pyongyang, but holy shit

https://imgur.com/a/6qsNcZj

[-] Dempf@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

Badge of honor.

[-] Cyberjin@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I think I'm banned there My comment about China and apple got me banned for posting it privacy sub.

Is this a thing?

[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Yes they will absolutely ban you for comments made on other instances.

[-] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

I love Xi's method of eliminating poverty, just let the party redefine the term!

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 4 months ago

They learned it from us! We're the innovators!

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