{"id":3890,"date":"2007-07-16T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2017-11-25T18:15:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T00:15:30","slug":"tradewars-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/16\/tradewars-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"TradeWars 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/07\/16\/china.meat\/index.html\" target=\"_new\">wants to play<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chinese food inspectors have banned meat products from seven U.S. companies from being imported into their country after finding a range of contamination issues in shipments checked on Saturday, according to China&#8217;s official news agency Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension of meat imports from the American companies &#8212; including Tyson Foods &#8212; comes just weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it would hold all farm-raised catfish, basa, shrimp, dace and eel shipments arriving from China until they are tested for residues from drugs not approved by the U.S. for use in farm-raised fish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People are dying from certain Chinese products, but to China, it&#8217;s a game of oneupmanship.<\/p>\n<p>The title, of course, refers to an ancient BBS game which I had the pleasure of playing in the late 1980s.  The game was called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TradeWars_2002\" target=\"_new\">TradeWars 2002<\/a>, and I played it on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WWIV\" target=\"_new\">WWIV<\/a> Bulletin Board Systems, you damn kids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China wants to play: Chinese food inspectors have banned meat products from seven U.S. companies from being imported into their country after finding a range of contamination issues in shipments checked on Saturday, according to China&#8217;s official news agency Xinhua. The suspension of meat imports from the American companies &#8212; including Tyson Foods &#8212; comes [&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-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","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=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17949,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/17949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}