Y’know, I sure wish it’d been me who’d made this observation:
Since China is a totalitarian state*, it means the government has its fingers in just about every conceivable pie there is, except the ones it really ought to. Monitoring speech? Check. Blocking internet access? Check. Busting dissidents who post online (with the help of Google)? Check. Forcing women to have abortions if they violate [the] “one child” [policy]? Check.
One thing the Chinese are not short of is government oversight. It’s just that consumer safety is not a priority for them at all.
* I’d call it authoritarian instead, but pffft. The guy’s general point still stands.