China - Evil Pensioners R Us !

It’s weird isn’t it? It seems that nearly everything we buy these days comes from China - some might say that it’s China’s incredible ‘export machine’ that is the main factor of the current fuel crisis, who knows?

One thing I do know however is that China’s human rights record, past and present, gets an easy ride in the corridors of power these days.

In spite of all the Olympic Games PR bullshit that we’ll shortly be subjected to this is a country run by a cabal of aged and unpleasant buggers, not too disimilar from that s.o.b ( whose portraits and statues are still on show in public areas of China) Mao Zedong - right up there with Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot etc. as being in the Top Ten Evil Toe Rags Of All Time.

With a population of an estimated 1.5 billion China is a dominant force in the world and no mistake. So, despite its shameful treatment of the Tibetan people China is where it’s at these days business-wise.

So learn the lingo - it might come in handy today ( for business purposes) or tomorrow when China decides that it needs to expand into the countries it exports to - maybe become an informer or some such.

I love chinese culture and the chinese people, it’s just those anonymous pensioners that are keeping them under the yoke that drive me nuts. The same pensioners that allowed the massacre of Tianamen square - anyone remember that one? Sure there’s a new affluent class ( the only ones we see when we visit) but out in the country people are living in goddam holes in the ground!!! Not that any of us watching the Olympics will see them.

Don’t get me started! But apart from the faceless bunch running the show I LIKE chinese…..