M. Fricker wrote:

Derek Broughton wrote:

M. Fricker wrote:

"G Pearce" wrote:

In the 50's and 60's the TV dinners, or anything else for that matter,
was
coming from China - with virtually no enforced regulation, they can
ship us anything, including ingredients in and for our food, let alone
our pets

Check your history. Trade with china didn't start until after Nixon
recognized China in 1972 after cold relations since the communist
takeover in 1949.

While I have my doubts that TV dinners were coming from China, there
certainly _was_ trade with China. It's just that prior to Nixon's
recognition of the People's Republic, "China" meant Taiwan.

Only to Taiwanese. Several billion other people disagreed.

Er, in the first place, there were just over a billion people in the
People's Republic of China at the time.

In the second, Taiwan ("Republic of China") held the seat for China in the
UN. Practically every non-communist country in the world recognized the
Taiwanese government as "China". That didn't change until _after_ Nixon
recognized the PRC government.
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