{"id":3803,"date":"2007-06-04T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3803"},"modified":"2017-11-28T16:13:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T22:13:37","slug":"fighting-words-threshold-lowered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/fighting-words-threshold-lowered\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Words Threshold Lowered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/articlePrint?articleId=USPEK7882220070603\" target=\"_new\">China says U.S. warning on toothpaste irresponsible<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China has branded a U.S. warning against using its toothpaste as irresponsible, saying low levels of diethylene glycol (DEG) were not harmful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far we have not received any report of death resulting from using the toothpaste. The U.S. handling (of this case) is neither scientific nor responsible,&#8221; China&#8217;s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine said in a statement posted on its Web site over the weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This from a government who thinks bumping an electronics surveillance plane is responsible piloting.<\/p>\n<p>In some quantum universe, this is one of the beginning shots in a war between China and the United States.  When its exports collapse because the Chinese Administration of Quality Supervision (motto: Good Enough For Government Work Is Good Enough For Everything) doesn&#8217;t actually stop the country from exporting poisonous substances as consumables and customers die, China&#8217;s economy collapses.  To save face amongst its preening ruling elite, the country makes its desperate gamble for Taiwan and thar she blows.<\/p>\n<p>Part of my gift as a writer and a paranoia shidoshi is the joy of extrapolating the worst possible scenario from a bad press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China says U.S. warning on toothpaste irresponsible: China has branded a U.S. warning against using its toothpaste as irresponsible, saying low levels of diethylene glycol (DEG) were not harmful. &#8220;So far we have not received any report of death resulting from using the toothpaste. The U.S. handling (of this case) is neither scientific nor responsible,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18049,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3803\/revisions\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}