China is Hell

[tom]

Oh, China! That mythical land of martial arts and calligraphy, temple bells and dragons, Taoist wisdom and Oriental secrets!

Dream on.

For no matter how many times over-excited presenters gabble on about how gunpowder was invented in China and it’s no surprise they excel at the fireworks in the opening ceremony, it’s still hell. A miserable police state with no human rights.

So just for fun Road Junky would like to hand out some medals in advance of all the sweaty sporting events.

GOLD medal to China for leading number of executions. Amnesty estimated around 1700 people were killed by the police last year. Some estimates go much higher though, even above the 10,000 mark. Sporting rules are rather lax here and all it really takes is a policeman, a nearby wood and a pistol. On your marks, get set and… you’re dead.

GOLD medal to China for the largest number of sweat shops in the world. China has become the global factory where all your favourite brands go to get cheap garments made. Hell, about half the goods in your house probably come from China these days as underpaid (often unpaid) workers are forced to mass-produce consumer goods with no bathroom breaks. Complain and they get fined, sacked or beaten up.

Only a BRONZE medal to China for state terrorism as the USA and Russia are well ahead in the bomb-other-countries-to-bits rallies. Still, they deserve to be on the podium for their stamina in occupying and exploiting another country; Tibet.

SILVER medal to China for environmental destruction. Not content with poisoning their own people with ‘slightly polluted’ air that is 7 times higher than the accepted safe standards, China does a great job at destroying the environment of other countries, too. Take a trip to places like Laos and Vietnam in the spring and watch them burn down the forests to plant rubber for the new Chinese powerhorse economy.

Well, we could go on. There are all kinds of events like the rewriting of history, harvesting of organs of practitioners of Falun Gong, snitching to the police on your neighbours and brainwashing the population to believe in their own national superiority but… well, the competition quickly gets quite intense.

The cream of the world’s athletes are heading to beautiful Beijing to run, track and field but we find it hard to give a damn. It’s bad enough that the jeans we wear and the tents we use and the pots we cook with are paid for by the suffering of Chinese peasants. Do we really need to stand for the Chinese anthem too?

[ohio]

I'll bet Texas has a per capita execution rate higher than china... I'll also say that most americans believe that they're from the greatest country in the world... America also pollutes much, much, more per capita, as does europe and russia. Maybe china does suck, and it probably doesn't deserve the olympics, but oh well... As far as exploiting workers, the west is just as responsible for buying the shit as the chinese are for making it. Really, it is kind of scary to think about the massive military buildup go9ing on in china right now, but no scarier than the same thing going on in russia and the us.

[synthette]

IMHO, I'd give the Silver Medal to Canada....specifically the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan......

3 cheers for the Oilsands Projects!
Screw Kyoto - we got oil, and we know how to exploit it (and the environment!, and the Caribou.....).......we won't even go into the ubiquitous Pulp Mills (which continue to pump chlorinated and arsenic-contaminated filth into the rivers and streams, as well as the Aquifer).......they'd rather pay the minimal fines than upgrade their plants ($10,000 versus $2 million??........oh hello?).
Don't let's even get started on the organophosphates or oestrogen-mimics which are responsible for reproductive mutations in the Great Lakes - courtesy of Monsatan!!

Canada, Schmanada.....I'm outa here, as soon as I get my visa.

(and to add to the shame......we STILL continue to dump our refuse into the landfill known as Michigan!!)

[Ali Baba]

Why so much negativity towards China? Do you dislike superpowers/empires?

Executions also occur in Thailand- a country that receives much positivity on this site, much of the middle east and some developed countries- Japan and USA. Draconian laws and capital punishment is common in Asia.

Sweatshops can be found in many developing countries due to the cheap labour and China's are much more modern and provide better working conditions then many of India's (another popular country).

Pollution from China's factories is causing acid rain to fall on Korea and Japan but it's not as if these countries don't dump rubbish in the sea that gets washed up on China's coast. Plenty of toxic plastic gets sent to China for "recycling".

China is a big country with big problems but few of them are unique to The Middle Kingdom; a little more balance please.

[tom]

Yeah, torture is to be found everywhere around the world but you don't get your internal organs harvested for practicing a kind of tai chi in thailand....

China is a living hell and has been for more than half a century. A police informant society that destroyed the social fabric with mobs of rampaging youth. Sure, there are other countries that did even worse (Cambodia for example) but it's China that's growing in influence around the world, branching out to exploit Africa now, covering the rest of Asia in concrete, hell, they make the US look good....

[amysmedley]

Hi Tom,

Yes, You are right that china is like a hell. Its economy condition is too much low. China is mythical land of martial arts and calligraphy, temple bells and dragons, Taoist wisdom and Oriental secrets! But that's not true 100%.Texas has high capita income as compared to china.I'll also say that most Americans believe that they're from the greatest country in the world.America also pollutes much, much, more per capita, as does Europe and Russia.
I don't know about china but for communism it suffers a lot and people of china are affected by the attacks on hiroshma and nagasaki.China is a big country with big problems but few of them are unique to The Middle Kingdom; a little more balance please. I hope the condition of china may improved for good.

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