He’s a scapegoat.
The entire Chinese industry is incapable of meeting even minimal Western standards for produce safety, product quality and pollution controls.
Zheng Xiaoyu will die, but the problem won’t go away.
Neither will other factors that allow the Chinese to produce goods at dirt cheap prices, including theft of intellectual property and use of prison labor.
This has been going on for years. A loss of American jobs didn’t cause any alarm, but when people’s pets start to die...then things get noticed.
Duncan Hunter is about 10 years ahead of everyone else on this. He’s called a “protectionist”. Since pets have started dying maybe the term takes on a new meaning.
All true. If this one guy doesn’t appease the news cycle, they will have a troop of “safety officials” shot. Then, business as usual.