Corruption in the Chinese pharmacutical industry

from StrategyPage. the article is about China's economic and military status but contains this:

The increased censorship and restrictions on what the media can report go beyond the economy. Corruption and fear of embarrassment also play a role. Current examples are how the secret police are handling Chinese victims of yet another “dangerous food and drugs” scandal.

Many of the victims of Changsheng Biotechnology, the second largest supplier of vaccines in China, are seeking compensation from the government for injuries suffered from bad vaccines.

In July Changsheng was accused of selling unsafe medicines and getting away with it by bribing government inspectors to ignore evidence of poor quality control that resulted in ineffective vaccines.

This is the latest of many such scandals involving dangerous food products or medicines. It is why the government has been so energetic in its anti-corruption campaign but also evidence that the “war on corruption” was not going as well as the government was reporting.

This latest incident was so scary that even North Korea refused to buy low cost medicines from China because of the growing popular belief (in China and North Korea) that too many Chinese made drugs were probably ineffective.