Lies and bias
Mattel Group, the leading US toy producer recalled 20 million toys that made in its company in China. Despite the designing problems explained the Group, some US media kept on with the sensational news publicity with the theme of "toys with harmful lead", which badly damaged the image of the products made in China.
During the past year, some of the foreign news agencies also had a series news report on toothpaste consisting of diethylene glycol that were exported from China, the incident of poisoning medicine in Panama and the "Da Baitu" candy consisting of formaldehyde to embroider the food safety problem of China. As a matter of fact, some of these incidents were aroused by the different testing criterions in different countries and others by illegal export from China. And some incidents were nothing but the fake reports by some western media.
As the Olympic Games is nearing, Beijing's weather and environment have also been the target of some western media. During the "Good Luck Beijing" mountain bicycle testing event last year, a US media published an article title with "Beijing’s pollution the greatest enemy of cyclists", which said "A US cyclist felt so hard to catch his breath due do the bad pollution that he couldn’t help but give up the match". Then a piece of "suggestion" followed: to provide masks to the US athletes competing at the Beijing Games.
Other issues including the Taiwan question and Darfur issue were also made the material for sensationalized news "reported" by some western media.