Yeh sure. And that's why Hong Kong is so excited about getting away from that nasty old British influence and, instead, being ruled directly by the benevolent ones in Bejing.
The day my dog was cooked for dinner By Juliana Liu Hong Kong correspondent, BBC News Published 28 June 2015 IMAGE COPYRIGHTAP image captionDogs for sale at the Yulin at the dog-meat festival This week about 10,000 dogs and a number of cats were killed at an annual dog-meat festival in south-western China, to celebrate the longest day of the year. For the BBC's Juliana Liu it was a reminder of one of the most traumatic days of her childhood, in the Chinese city of Changsha. When I was three years old, after months of begging, my parents finally gave in to my pleas for a puppy. The day that my uncle, a lorry driver, brought me a fuzzy yellow mongrel from my grandmother's mountainous, faraway home was the happiest of my young life. I named him "Doggie", and we immediately became inseparable. As an only child born in 1979 at the beginning of China's one-child policy, I had always been alone, and Doggie became my best friend. He loved running around outside our one-room flat, gobbling up left-over rice and snuggling near the coal fire. But these halcyon days did not last. After just one winter, my parents told me Doggie had to go....... https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33283694
Its important to know what Shi Zhengli and her mentor Peter Daszak, both call themselves 'Virus Hunters' have done over the years.... They visited bat caves and isolated samples of blood, urine from bats to look for viruses similar to SARS They spliced the viruses isolates from bat caves to separate virus components They used spike proteins from another human virus (HIV) to stick to the animal viruses to enable the virus to infect mammal or human cells They successfully made a synthetic lab virus after which Obama stopped such research in US but Zhengli continued same research in china They also used nucleoside analogues to induce artificial mutations in animal viruses They worked on vaccines and drugs that would be useful to treat such viruses The intention of doing all this type of research is hard to prove---certainly not for 'saving the humanity' as proposed by them. The P4 biolab in wuhan also has about 1200 virus samples of deadly viruses for 'research'. The evidence accumulated so far that the covid19 is a lab virus is here https://project-evidence.github.io/#(part._the-end)
Scientists call for new probe into COVID-19 origins - with or without China https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-china-idUKKBN2BU2J2 A joint China-World Health Organization (WHO) study into COVID-19 has provided no credible answers about how the pandemic began, and more rigorous investigations are required - with or without Beijing’s involvement, a group of international scientists and researchers said on Wednesday. The joint study, released last week, said the likeliest transmission route for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, involved bats and other wildlife. It all but ruled out the possibility it had leaked from a laboratory. In an open letter, 24 scientists and researchers from Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan said the study was tainted by politics. “Their starting point was, let’s have as much compromise as is required to get some minimal cooperation from China,” said Jamie Metzl, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council think tank, who led the drafting process for the letter. The study’s conclusions were based on unpublished Chinese research, while critical records and biological samples “remain inaccessible”, the letter said. Claims by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus that China has withheld data have been rejected by Liang Wannian, China’s senior COVID-19 expert. Liang also appeared to rule out any further joint investigations in China. Metzl said the world might have to “revert to Plan B” and conduct further investigations without China’s involvement. China has rejected allegations that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a research laboratory in Wuhan, the city where COVID-19 was first identified. The joint China-WHO study said the lab leak theory was “extremely unlikely”, saying there was “no record” that any laboratory had kept SARS-CoV-2-related viruses. Tedros said more research was required to “reach more robust conclusions”. But Metzl said China should disclose information that would allow the lab-leak hypothesis to be disproved. “China has databases of what viruses were being held... there are lab notes of the work that was being done,” he said. Responding to the letter on Thursday, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said its “purpose was self-evident” and that countries like the United States, not China, were guilty of politicising the inquiry into COVID-19’s origins. “They insist on politicising the issue of traceability, damaging and disrupting China’s cooperation with the WHO, discrediting China and publicly challenging the independence and scientific conclusions of scientists,” he said.
"Australia is proving that you can starve the Chinese economically and not be hit hard, yourself. So why are we tolerating the bullshiat coming out of Beijing? Time to cut them off until they learn to be a partner in the global community."
And if Joe continues to "stay the course" then the Big Guy will continue to get Ten. Maybe send Hunter to China to git er done. Of course he is already doing bidness there so he can just dovetail that in.
At the least: Our economies are interconnected. And, They have the rare earth metals we need for technology devices.
Yeah it's not quite black or white as you are posturing. These same 3rd worlders are aware of European imperialism and then US foreign policy. Choose being dominated by D.C or Beijing. Pick your poison.
Greenland says no to China-backed rare-earth mine in election Party opposed to Kvanefjeld project wins, denting Beijing's ambitions Voters waiting to cast their ballot during the parliamentary election outside the Inussivik arena in Nuuk, Greenland on Tuesday. Emil Helms/Ritzau Scanpix/via Reuters YASUO TAKEUCHI, Nikkei staff writerApril 8, 2021 06:39 JST BRUSSELS -- A left-wing Greenland party opposed to a Chinese-sponsored rare-earth mine won the largest share of seats in the Danish territory's general election Tuesday, casting doubt on the project's future. The pro-environment Inuit Ataqatigiit party secured 36.6% of the vote, expanding its parliamentary presence to 12 seats from eight, according to Greenlandic public broadcaster KNR. The center-left Siumut party, which supported the mine, fell to second with less than 30% of the vote. Inuit Ataqagiit is preparing for talks to form a coalition government. The party campaigned heavily against the Kvanefjeld project in southern Greenland -- which would produce uranium along with strategically vital rare earths -- amid alarm over the environmental impact. The license for the mine is held by Australia-based Greenland Minerals, whose top shareholder is China's Shenghe Resources, a point that has also raised some concern. "We must listen to the voters who are worried," party chairman Mute Egede told KNR. "We say 'no' to uranium mining." The new government is expected to hold public hearings to determine the fate of the mine project. .....more..... https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Ma...o-to-China-backed-rare-earth-mine-in-election