China Agrees To Safety Plan For Food, Drugs

AP:

The United States and China sparred over intellectual property protections and signed agreements on safeguarding the quality of food and drugs exports to the U.S. Tuesday at the start of a series of contentious economic meetings.

Other agreements included one to boost the number of Chinese tourists going to the United States and several geared toward expanding U.S. access to Chinese markets, from agriculture to telecommunications.

China's exports have come under intense scrutiny this year because a number of potentially deadly chemicals have been found in goods including toothpaste, toys and seafood. In March, tainted pet food made in China was blamed for the deaths of cats and dogs in North America.

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Comments

[Independent voter]

It's real simple people.

*** Stop buying defective, poisonous crap from Communist China ***

When the commies start losing market share, they'll start making better products. But as long as you buy and consume everything that they make, they have no incentive.

Part of every dollar that you spend on communist Chinese crap goes to the Chinese military. Those happy little folks who spy on use, do cyber attacks on the Pentagon, blind our satellites, steal our technology.

It took quite a bit of work, but all of the Christmas gifts that I bought this year were MADE IN THE USA!!

[AtomicSplash]

well, there are plans. And, then there's the implementation of those plans.

so far China has only agreed to plans.

[KCFreedom]

Further evidence that Karl Marx was correct all along. The capitalists will hang themselves with their own rope. We are just handing our ass to China, a communist dictatorship with no workers rights, for NOTHING in return. Just you and I's future.

Nothing less than embarassing, and the last several administrations have all been complicit. Nixon was a mere errand boy to open up China to our jobs. It just took awhile for the plan to succeed. After all, we were all told how opening them up to American goods and materialistic capitalism will just make communism collapse.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur is spinning in his grave at rapid RPMs.

I agree with another poster; BUY LOCAL and BUY at a family or privately owned store.

[themodernleader]

What a disgrace to a once proud people that our vacuous Secretary of the Treasury must wait in line to have words with officials of a dictatorship: Only to be told that they deign agree to a plan to send us manufactured and grown products that are not poisonous. A meandering moron could have solicited that agreement without even asking. If I were President, I would fire that incompetent Cabinet Member on the spot for bringing home such an insulting result to nation endangering issues. But this administration has not one cipher of shame.
The reason for going over to China with only hat in the hand was to relieve our bankrupt country from one sided, mercantelistic trade. Evidently, after a few toasts (too many?) that issue was quickly forgotten. In the meantime, here in our Country's growing poverty....

[sparkey]

We have nothing to worry about. All the lead and toxic paint is gone from the toys and no raw human waste is being used to grow the food that is shipped here. We can now safely use everything from China. The FDA and Mattel and Chinamart say so.

[MadMadamMin]

Buy local.

[Smirk]

Oh, well. I'm sure everything will be okay now.