clifftaylor
Absolutely retired!
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What were your thoughts ?Yes, I have.
Nothing wrong with China.
Think about it: who would you rather have running the planet, the US or China?
Only to Shenzhen. Also Hong Kong and Macau, but they don't really count as China, at least not yet.Has anyone actually been to China ?
If China 'ostracise' the UK it will be in real trouble.
Nothing wrong with China.
Anyway the country we should really encourage is Finland.
I doubt China will end up like N Korea. No Chinese colleague has ever hinted that anyone thinks like that.
Absolutely. In fact we should bomb the whole place flat!
China may have odd eating habits, but only 4.5k covid deaths from a population of 1.5 billion is remarkable, to say the least.....
Given the human right concerns, building islands in international waters and now giving the WHO the run around, should the West use a total trade embargo to bring them to heel? obviously this would hurt us as well.
Nothing wrong with China.
Think about it: who would you rather have running the planet, the US or China?
It's the US we should ostracize, they've set civilisation back years.
Anyway the country we should really encourage is Finland.
I hope you are right but what a Chinese colleague in China will tell you is very different to what a Chinese colleague outside China will say.
Such hard and painful reading that it makes me weep.Actually sod that, here are some examples:
- Dogs and cats are, amongst other things, boiled, stabbed, drowned, bludgeoned, strangled, poisoned, hanged, and electrocuted...experiencing unbearable pain as their legs are routinely broken while trussed up and hung in local markets for human consumption, or skinned alive and cast off like garbage, for the despicable fur trade.
- Dogs (both owned and stray) are relentlessly hunted down by 'police authorised' roving mobs and savagely beaten to death by the hundreds of thousands, in the name of 'rabies' control.
- Bears suffer a lifetime of excruciating pain as they are surgically mutilated and milked each day for their gall bile. Their paws taken as delicacies for the Chinese restaurant trade or ground into powdered 'medicines'. The use of bear parts supplying the traditional Chinese medicine trade and exotic meat market is the major reason why bear species are declining around the world. Endangered species of bears are fast becoming extinct.
- Rhinos are butchered for their horns and are now highly endangered.
- Sharks - over 70-100 million sharks per annum are 'finned' and their carcasses dumped into the sea, to accommodate Chinese' growing taste for shark fin soup.
- Turtles - 20 million turtles are devoured in China per annum. Slaughtered alive & fully conscious, their heads are decapitated and crushed. Two thirds of the world's turtles are now threatened with extinction.
- Elephants - elephant tusks are carved into ivory trinkets - their feet hacked off for stools and coffee table legs.
- Seals - China's role in the single, largest mass butchery of marine mammals on Earth, the annual Canadian seal slaughter, happens in part, so that dried seal penises can be turned into aphrodisiacs to "theoretically" increase the libidos of elderly men engaging in sex (there is an even more sinister element to this, but let's not go there right now)
- Zoo slaughter - live domestic pets, as well as cows and chickens, are fed to lions and tigers for the "entertainment" of visitors at Chinese zoos. Zoo officials encourage guests to buy domestic animals on the premises, and feed them to the carnivores through special vending flaps fitted onto tourist buses...allowing individuals to throw chickens and other live animals to the waiting predators.
- Animals are used as "dried" ingredients in traditional Chinese 'medicines' and killed in the billions such as tiger parts, crocodile bile, deer musk, sea horses, lizards, sea cucumbers, powdered antlers, dog penis, pangolin (scaly anteaters), only to name a few on a seemingly unending list. All are considered no more than 'products' to be abused and murdered in the most monstrous ways possible, even if it means permanently wiping many of these species from the face of the planet in order to fulfill often frivolous, antiquated and selfish needs.
Obviously I am not blaming the entire nation of Chinese people in general and I am not absolving the West from many of their own practices that are less than pleasant towards animals and must also be addressed, but as I have said before China is on a whole other level and the government and a proportion of the population do think much of the above is acceptable. It isn't!!!
- Chinese traditional 'medicine' industry - a nonsense hocus pocus, and not grounded in any form of science, practice that routinely involves cruelty to animals or hunting them to extinction from the large (e.g. tigers) to the small (e.g. pangolins).