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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 21 Aug \ parent \ on: China Escalates Trade Tensions with EU over Dairy Imports news
While many in the West have forgotten, the Chinese remember The Opium Wars.
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47 sats \ 5 replies \ @Satosora 21 Aug
The baby milk scandal was very scary. Babies werent getting the right nutrition and their head sizes were increasing.
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20 sats \ 4 replies \ @TomK OP 21 Aug
Wasn't it thst A2 milk company grom NZ involved?
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47 sats \ 2 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 21 Aug
It was from a Chinese milk conglomerate Sanlu with which NZs largest dairy coop Fonterra had entered a joint venture investing millions to get into the Chinese market. After the scandal Sanlu (and Fonterras investment) were worthless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal Naturally the bricks and mortar of the Sanlu operation was restarted under some new branding and the NZ dairy giants investment disappeared into the complex labyrinth of Chinas reverse engineering of Western Production Processes.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @TomK OP 21 Aug
Ah, ok. Thank You
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47 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 21 Aug
Yeah, it was really bad. People in China became very vocal about it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 21 Aug
Im not sure. I just remember being told not to buy chinese or taiwanese baby milk powder because of the scandal.
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