One downside on China's poor regulation and copious piracy (not the "oh-ahoy there" kind, either) is when ithe products are medicines. A study estimates 190,000 die and 2.5 million are hospitalised due to improper medicine use. Pharmacies are barely regulated and there is widespread ignorance about medicines in China.

And China's crackdown on internet cafes has seen the closure of 1,600 of them between February and August this year along with 100 million yuan in fines. This was out of a total of 1.8 million internet cafes inspected. Did they really inspect that many internet cafes in 6 months? Working 7 days a week that would required almost 43,000 inspections a day. Even with China's vast internet censorsing army, I find it hard to believe they managed to actually visit that many cafes...unless China has the most efficient public servants in the world.