Food for thought

摘要

The Japanese public is scandalised. Over 700 people have fallen ill in the past few weeks after eating Chinese-made gyoza, or dumplings, apparently tainted with harmful pesticides. In a rare display of co-operation, the Japanese and Chinese authorities have launched a joint investigation. Whether the poisoning was an industrial accident or sabotage intended to harm Sino-Japanese relations, as the Chinese have suggested, is unclear.