Originally Posted by
Bigpants
We really are in no position to:
a. complain about it.
Wrong. The year is 2020, not 1865.
Pro Tip: Bismarck is also no longer Chancellor in Germany. (Well, "Reich" to be pedantic)
That you can't do anything about it is a self defeating attitude.
If you think that you are beaten, you are.
Kypling, one of your own poets.
Also: there was no UN during the Opium Wars.
The world has changed.
China is a UN member. You have every right to complain.
Originally Posted by
Video Mixdown
It’s the only country I’ve ever visited that left me feeling physically and spiritually soiled, and very glad to leave. You can keep it.
My brother felt the same way; he traveled therer quite a bit with his company over a decade ago. Stopped ages ago.
For Big Pistons: tough to bet against your estimate. That's one of a number of ways for this to all go pear shaped.