By Greg Hugh, Staff Writer

China Insight was conceived back in 2001 when 3 young, entrepreneurial co-workers from China decided that publishing a newspaper would be a good way to generate interest and leads for a consulting business which resulted in the printing of China Insight's first issue in February, 2002. Well, next month China Insight will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary.

As noted, China Insight was started in 2001, and is an independent, locally owned company that is headquartered in Minnetrista, MN. It is the only English-language American newspaper to focus exclusively on building a bridge between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC). Its goal is to develop a mutual understanding of each other's cultures and business environment by fostering U.S.-China cultural and business harmony.

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First, let me state the following: I don't think WCCO's news team or Jason Schugel are racists.

But if you were able to catch the story, which no longer exists on the WCCO Web page (but has been recovered on City Pages and various blogs), I hope you might be able to catch why there are so many readers and journalists angry with WCCO's news team. The Asian American Journalists Association has asked for an apology, City Pages published that "heads will roll" according to an inside source, tons of angry comments circled the internet.

On Oct. 31, 2011 WCCO released an I-Team report, headed by James Schugel, which claimed that a dog breeder in rural Minnesota was selling her pups to a New York City address. Upon looking up the address, Schugel reported that the address belonged to a Chinese market. After one phone call, Schugel's conversation with a thick accented meat worker implied that the store did sell dog meat. The story prompted a police raid, which eventually had WCCO quickly covering up the report on their Web site after the raid recovered no dog meat.

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