Saturday, October 09, 2010

Within the last one month China, the nation of uncivilised barbarians, has been snarling at the rest of the world. There was the incident of the fishing vessel which deliberately rammed two Japanese coast guard vessels causing damage. When he was arrested for his crime China responded as it knows how, with fury unrestrained by any civilising or diplomatic politeness. First it stopped all high level contacts, stopped rare earths export to Japan as a blackmail strategy and took four Japanese citizens as hostage on the specious charge that they were photographing military installations. Since the cursed country is a military state even public toilets could be termed sensitive because some soldiers were using it at the time. Then Chinese premier Wen Jia Bao was warning first the US and then Europe not to pressure China on artificially keeping its currency, the Yuan weak to increase exports. Then China was barking at the Nobel Committee not to award the Peace Prize to dissident Liu Xiaobo. The Nobel committee went ahead and awarded the prize to Xiaobo anyway. Predictably China reacted as a rabid dog saying that Xiaobo is a criminal according to Chinese law and not fit to receive the prize.What law? China has no law. To show its rage and unable to take revenge on the Nobel committee Xiaobo's wife has been shifted from Beijing to Jinzhou where he is being held. An uncivilised country where children die of melamine poisoning, miners die regularly in preventable accidents and schools collapse in an earthquake while party offices stand intact will behave similarly with other countries. Time that China is hit where it will hurt most, its economy.

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