Food Scare Puts Chinese Media On The Defensive

Taipei Times | By Howard French


A majority of the Chinese media still view foreign coverage of the tainted food scandal as Western efforts to put down their country.

For weeks, as questions have multiplied over the safety of China's exports of food and other consumer goods, the Chinese media have had a consistent refrain.

US complaints about China's products are part of a mounting trade war. They are the expression of efforts by Westerners to keep China down, to invent what the Chinese media have called a "China threat" to manipulate public opinion.