I do not see the link between the elites eating pure food and the baby milk issue. Surely the elites have babies who drink milk too.
Western posters think d West can do no wrong but look at the mess they are in now. And we are supposed to learn finance & economics from them. World needs change!

Lim, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Ran, York, UK

I agree with you. Can it be the British utra rich and people in the government do eat the same kind of food the common people and the poor eat? And I can't see the logic for this article.
Who really knows whether the leaders had not drunk tainted milk too?

Lim, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

China is a huge country with 1.3 billion people (56 nationalities). Can any Western country (USA included) claim they do not have problems? Taking size and population into account, China is not doing badly. In fact it is progressing to the envy of the West. Rome was not build in a day. China too.

Lim, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

China has come a long way in a short time.

Until China's food and drug safety laws catch up to the growth in greed of its entrepreneurs and officials, our governments must carefully test all imports from China.

I feel sorry for ordinary Chinese citizens who have no government to protect them.

Keith S, Winnipeg, Canada

This kind of news can just fool the westerners, but keep off with Chinese people because this is easily found out as fake news. Searching all the blogs to find negative news for Chinese government to split it with Chinese people is not a good idea. And thats why they dont believe west media any more

Ran, York, UK

“Poisoned dumplings exported to Japan” was much more a criminal act than a failure in food safety management. China initially denied a possible cause in the plant (implying a supply chain incident). But they later admitted local Chinese people also suffered health hazards from the same product.

Tetsu, Tokyo, Japan

To Joe Orton,
I am a Tibetan and I called Tibetan uprising. Using work riot is too cheap for all the Tibetan lives lost under Chinese bullet and in prison. By the way, it is media's job to print out the truth where ever it happens. Shame on Chinese Communist elites. Same as Kim jon ill.

Tenor, Lhasa, Tibet

Many things in China go unreported. Probably the entire Chinese Diary products in and outside china posses risk. I was in China for last 5 years probably and i used to drink lot of milk now i am staying in India its time for me to go for a kidney check up.

santosh.valipe, Banglore, India

don't touch the chinese rulers!

liubei, milan,

It's ridiculous.... Does the author really know about China? By the way , I am a chinese!

Tong, hangzhou,

The way I see it. Most of the Brits who have lived in China for sometime tend to be sympathetic with the Chinese. Only those who never been to China errogantly blame China for one thing or another.

Guo Li, Beijing, China

From the view of the elite, 13, 000 children is not a big number, because China has the highest populations in the world, 13 billions. 13,000, just like a red blood cell in a body.

Gary, Hong Kong,

Just as there are no sacred cows there are no countries beyond reproach...especially China,India et cetera.I am not amused by these Western "China Apologists" who fervently denounce any justifiable criticisms about their "beloved" China.China is still quite backward and merits objective assessment.

Frederick Christensen, Uppsala, Sweden

China's elite eat pure food while babies die. Beijing spends money on a spacewalk, as their stock markets tank, wiping out the life-savings of ignorant investors. In the US money is tied up in financial failures, with citizens soon to lack the wherewithal to buy even cheap products from China.

yoshinogawa, British Columbia, Canada

I wonder which restaurant they dine in in Bejing, I will be certain to visit next time.

Farrukh, Woking,

shenqi, beijing,

Exactly! Also 30% of children in the UK live in poverty, one of the highest rates in the Western World.
We should put our own house in order before standing on our soap box

Phill, The Wirral, England

Yes, one of the worst articles I've ever read about China - speculative and effectively source-less.

What's the link with the Tibetan riots? This is what Chinese people mean when they say that the Western media is inherently anti-China.

Joe Orton, Chongqing,

For millenia Chinese children have suffered from rickets and millions still do. It has taken a long while to persuade the people to drink milk and other dairy products. One sees the children with their milk bags and packets sucking on straws. This is likely to flag with such scandals and fears.

Ralph, Mianyang,Sichuan, c

To Shenqi of Beijing - the UK does not have a fanciful system whereby the rich are tyrannical and the poor are meant to be leaders. The West is proud of it's capitalism and we all know and accept that such inequalities exist. However, such inequalities in China are purely hypocritical.

Danielle, Melbourne,

that's pure nonsens! The Queen lives in castle while other brits are homeless.

shenqi, beijing,

In the modern world the only difference between communist and democrat is that democrats are arrogant enough not to care that voters know that some are more equal than others.

Udo, Melbourne, Australia