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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 21 Aug 2024 \ 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.
The baby milk scandal was very scary.
Babies werent getting the right nutrition and their head sizes were increasing.
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Wasn't it thst A2 milk company grom NZ involved?
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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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Ah, ok. Thank You
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Yeah, it was really bad.
People in China became very vocal about it.
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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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