It always seems like China is doing something crazy like slaughtering animals or scaring us about SARS or the Avian Bird Flu.

And furthermore, their expanding economy is to blame for a lot of our economic problems.

The slew of posts about China just reminded me of these things. I don't care about mercilessly bludgeoning like 50K canines, but they're terrorizing us with one thing or another - communism, bird flu, importation of small commodities that damage our business, and they're burning all our gas

If the human populace was metaphorically a globe, Chinese people would be the ocean, and everyone else would be the continents. I see a lot more blue than green on the planet if you know what I mean

[Edited on August 2, 2006 at 3:08 PM. Reason : current news: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060801.IBCHINA01/TPStory/Business]

8/2/2006 2:45:33 PM

you see, this is really more of a soapbox thread...

but then you ask, what is the lounge for, anyways

well, NOTHING, it's completely fucking useless

8/2/2006 2:55:38 PM

LOOK WHAT THEY EAT!

8/2/2006 2:57:55 PM

currently listening to: Bette Middler - From a Distance

mood: Globally Concerned

for lunch: chicken wings

8/2/2006 2:59:21 PM

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"but they're terrorizing us with one thing or another "

i think that would be our media outlets.

8/2/2006 3:00:19 PM

nm

[Edited on August 2, 2006 at 3:11 PM. Reason : vbvxbxcxbxcb]

8/2/2006 3:00:34 PM

^you do know where you are posting, right?

8/2/2006 3:01:14 PM

^ Yeah, my post was just a response to the insanity of the article I read regarding all of the economic expansion.

They can't even slow their growth. They're going to crush us.

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"Mr. Straszheim observes that "we used to say if America sneezes, Europe catches a cold; China is now in that situation.""

He forgot to mention the part about the bird flu.

[Edited on August 2, 2006 at 3:12 PM. Reason : ]

8/2/2006 3:09:57 PM

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"and they're burning all our gas"

since when did we own the gas?

8/2/2006 4:15:38 PM

if this was in soapbox i am pretty sure stategrad would of been torn apart for such retarded fears...

and how can there ever expanding economy be the blame for ours?!?! WTF!!! so by that theory they shouldnt be expanding... only we should?

and whats sooo wrong with there being so many more chinese... if you want more americans then have a big family, get it started off right....


and slaughtering those animals, it was the actions of a select few on the top of that province who will most likely not exist tom.... even their state controlled media criticized it, so its not as if CHINA as a whole condoned or issued such a command. in anycase you do the same thing with chicken, cows, pigs everyday. why are dogs special? if anything i think its a good thing, if the world is gonna eat meat and slaughter animals then might as well go ahead and get rid of the stray dogs...


they arent the only reason gas prices are going up here.... its not as if the world is made up of only two factors, the US using gas, and China using gas.

i'm done...

8/2/2006 5:06:47 PM

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"importation of small commodities that damage our business"

Before you play that card, you better read an article or two about foreign lending. You can't expect anyone to take you serious on this subject when you leave out the billions of dollars of cheap credit the Chinese have extended to us. It really bugs me that I hear people complaining about the Chinese stealing our jobs, dumping imports on us, when the don't have half a clue about how global finance work.

8/2/2006 6:20:02 PM