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Q: Is China more obsessed with attacking the west than the safety of it's own people?
Recently, there were massive attacks on American owned KFC and McDonalds for using less than 5% contaminated meat from a Chinese supplier, while the supplier and Chinese-owned restaurants also using the meat received virtually no criticism.
VW, Audi and other European car manufacturers were the targets of an orchestrated campaign involving paid celebrity critics against relatively minor defects, and so-called "health concerns." These are not an issue in the rest of the world, nor have they been detected by anyone other than Chinese paid "experts" of dubious authority. Yet Chinese manufacturers are allowed to use asbestos in their engines.
China recently made formal protest to Australia, about Australian media exposing Great Wall illegally using asbestos in cars exported to Australia. China claimed it caused hardship to the Chinese company, and that Australia should not make such a big deal about such things.
There were also the mass protests against Japan and Japanese products, which even targeted Chinese people working for Japanese companies, or using Japanese products.
At some time or another, it seems that China has organised a "hate campaign" against the people or the products of just about every country and region on earth. At the same time, they ignore the millions of people dying from unsafe food, products and workplaces owned by Chinese companies or the state.
Is China more obsessed with attacking the west than the safety of it's own people?
It certainly looks to have more to do with protecting the economy than protecting the people. It will always boil down to the simple fact that corruption is the driving force in China. I am sure KFC would have had no bad publicity at all had they paid a reasonable fee to the correct official.
The kindergarten playground has a counterpart to this. If one kid is bad at letters, he might chose to pick on the kid that is bad at numbers rather than focusing on becoming better. Making someone else look bad will make yourself look less bad, of course dragging down the overall average, but who cares if you avoid loosing face.
It's all about getting everyone to only buy Chinese stuff.
The west has had a double moral standard for years, on one side asking China to improve their health, safety and environment protection and on the other side sending to China all the old products that didn't meet the safety standards of the EU or US to make more money
I dont see it as an attack, if China wants to improve their internal standards it is normal asking the more developed countries to serve as an example by meeting their own quality standards
Scandinavian:
you just don't improve standards by picking on a couple of foreign companies. you can only improve the standard through regulating markets, what's allowed to be sold and what is not.
you could argue that the west is dumping it's old products to China. but as there is little (little meaning, none whatsoever) consumer protection in China anything can be sold.
Crap is produced because there are buyers for crap
GuilinRaf:
Even IF the West (that ambiguous country which as we all know is all the same) were "dumping old products, it is up to China to accept or reject said products.
China is a sovereign nation, so she is under no obligation to accept a product that is not up to par.
nevermind:
Sorry, I fail to see how this mythical "west" you speak of can tell its companies what it can and cannot sell in China. That's China's job.
does this mean kfc and mcdonalds should sue the chinese vendor suppliers for not providing their end of the bargain or the government for not scrutinizing the suppliers and vendors. is kfc the food inspector or the chinese government. cant have it both ways, well in china you can i suppose.
Traveler:
Not sure what your answer has to do with the question. The TV report and paid media attacks on Apple had absolutely nothing to do with manufacturing or iPads. It was about customer service on a different Apple product, the iPhone.
China's customer service (like China's consumer protection) is known throughout the world as being far superior to Apple, or any other western company. 
Traveler,
Based on the FACTS that you've provided, I would say to a certain degree HELL YES!!
