{"id":22403,"date":"2026-05-29T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22403"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:10:11","slug":"how-ghost-shops-triggered-chinas-biggest-food-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22403","title":{"rendered":"How Ghost Shops Triggered China\u2019s Biggest Food Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cut-throat competition is supposed to benefit the consumer, but in China, in an effort to lower prices as much as possible, it led to cheating, cutting corners, illegality, and the spread of foodborne illnesses. This food was produced in a manner that would not pass a basic inspection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Ghost Shops Triggered China\u2019s Biggest Food Scandal | AB Explained\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vGAQ9uTRX3Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cut-throat competition is supposed to benefit the consumer, but in China, in an effort to lower prices as much as possible, it led to cheating, cutting corners, illegality, and the spread of foodborne illnesses. This food was produced in a manner that would not pass a basic inspection. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vGAQ9uTRX3Q<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,1668,217,165,236,551],"class_list":["post-22403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-competition","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-regulation","tag-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22404,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22403\/revisions\/22404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}