{"id":11414,"date":"2021-01-21T23:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3118683\/bribes-fake-factories-and-forged-documents-buccaneering"},"modified":"2021-01-21T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T23:00:17","slug":"bribes-fake-factories-and-forged-documents-the-buccaneering-consultants-pervading-chinas-factory-audits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/bribes-fake-factories-and-forged-documents-the-buccaneering-consultants-pervading-chinas-factory-audits\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribes, fake factories and forged documents: the buccaneering consultants pervading China\u2019s factory audits"},"content":{"rendered":"Dotted around China\u2019s industrial heartland, well-connected consultants are helping factory owners flout labour laws to churn out goods that end up on the shelves of well-known Western stores.Brimming with guanxi \u2013 the Chinese term for the strong personal connections that can prise open business deals \u2013 this army of advisers openly brag about their ability to guide nearly any factory through inspections designed to ensure that goods are made safely and that workers are paid correctly, a South\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3118683\/bribes-fake-factories-and-forged-documents-buccaneering\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dotted around China\u2019s industrial heartland, well-connected consultants are helping factory owners flout labour laws to churn out goods that end up on the shelves of well-known Western stores.Brimming with guanxi \u2013 the Chinese term for the strong person&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11415,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions\/11415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}