Not a surprise. Just a few years ago imported chinese honey was found to contain chloramphenacol a powerful antibiotic that can be fatal to 1 in 100,000 people. Many thought the chinese were using it to treat foulbrood disease in honeybee colonies. After further review it was found that the chinese are using this stuff as a topical product to kill off some of the nasty pathogens in thier surface waters. The honeybees were picking this antibiotic up while foraging for water!

The Chinese will give us much more than the afore mentioned Love Canal/Chernobyl heritage. Through the unbridaled use of antibiotics they will give use diseases an pathogens without cure.

Yet all those in power (govt. & business) seem to be in line to kiss thier buttocks...

Maybe one day the Chinese will be enlightened enough to request American paddlefish for ecological restoration.

Whenever I encounter another low quality chinese manufactured Item (Like those dang bolt cutters where the tubular handles bent like cheese) I sigh and say "Another fine product of the Great Leap Forward". The G.L.F. was a policy Mao imposed thinking to jack China into the industrial age by turning every available piece of iron into scrap metal for industry. They were even driving about collecting people's woks! A lot of very bad metal industrial products resulted. Quality has gone up on many chinese products but the Chinese ability to undercut everyone else has resulted in the whole world being flooded with cheap Chinese dross. This is the flaw in modern pseudocapitalism, Capitalists in the West, seeking profits for themselves have stripped the West of industrial capacity because they can make more money where labor is cheaper and can be ruthlessly exploited with the approval of governments like China. As a result the economies of the West are punting because employment that used to support a middle class in the West has all gone elsewhere. Only in industries that are involved in innovation do there remain lucrative manufacturing opportunities. Making stuff and selling it is the basis of capitalism. If you can't make stuff and sell it, you aren't creating new wealth. Corporate raiders like Mitt Romney are traitors to their fellow citizens for destroying the economy by breaking up American manufacturing to feather their own nests. We won WW2 not because we were fiercer (the Japanese were fiercer) or because we had better materiel (the Krauts had the best stuff by far) but because we could make more stuff than anybody else and the Russians had more bodies to put in uniform than anybody else. We couldn't do that today, there is hardly a pair of boots manufactured in the US (although we still make a lot of guns...but so do the Russkis).
The cost to China has been horrific, in their rush to emulate the mistakes of the West (viewed mistakenly as "progress")they have literally crapped in their own nest. Not that we didn't do the same in our time (remember the Holbrook Disaster for one) but we have had to clean up after our grandparents or live with the consequences for decades now. We had our denial shoved in our faces with twisted, sick and deformed babies and changed our ways. It has been a custom in the right to blame manufacturing decline on environmentalists, but it was the makers of the lie, the corporation wreckers themselves who did the damage, scapegoating anybody who had the sand to point out when industry is poisoning aquifers everyone depends on or air we all have to breath. Environmental regs did get passed and industry either cleaned up or used the new regs as excuses to move operations to places where they could piss in the well with impunity. In China a one party state with the ability to do as it pleases without restraint, they can run sweatshops, pollute the air and groundwater and produce defective products without fear of litigation or oversight. The paddlefish and the pink river dolphins have no answer to human greed and carelessness.
Is it any wonder there is a gyre of floating plastic debris in the Pacific the size of Texas?
A few Chinese may be doing very very well under the present situation, but most are not. The three Gorges Dam is a case in point. Flooding hundreds of miles of some of the most beautiful and longest inhabited places on Earth with a dam that can only be considered ill considered. Oh well, there are far too many people on the planet anyway and Stupid will find a way of rectifying the situation. Stupid will fix it. We'll all scream in horror and run for our lives but Stupid will really fix it for good (and Chinese stupid is world class stupid!). Look it is evolution in action! Things is goin' extinct!

cool article.