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Why are the Chinese "importing" their laborers from China? Why can't they hire locals? This is like the Indian outsourcers importing their workers into the US. Neither should be allowed! They are sucking dry the local resources without helping the local economy. In the case of China, the money goes to the corrupt governments, be it Myanmar or Angola. In the case of India, the money goes to greedy CEOs and Wall Street. In both cases, the losers are the ordinary citizens who lost their homes and jobs. This is a new form of colonization that benefits the few at the expense of the many. Greed knows no bounds. Beware, if kept up this could lead to simmering resentment and eventually unrest.


@ Liveinhope, @tocharian

Hey guys'

Never mind the China-Myanmar stuff which you hate in the guts anyway.

I am amused and somewhat angry to learn from news today a 108 years old convict, obviously of lower caste, was released from an Indian prison for being “old age”.

Was it the Indian justice system so callus and cold, or the prison diet so good to keep old man going there this long?

You want to tell me about it?

east wind


@ Non Deplume

LOL ... Funny

News headlines says that last week----President HU of China officially visited Russia to strenghten & build even closer all round strategic & economic ties

AFTER China & RUSSIA had also attended the SCO Summit in Kazakstan which strenghten their grip on Central Asia

The issue of Chinese people working & doing business in Siberia is a matter easily resolvable---NOT TO WORRY too much


Shepherd Song

It is nothing about India in Burma,if India want to intervene Burma,no Burmese including minorities think India is reliable coutry, any intervene from India will been looked on as an evil deeds,repeating in the colonial era.



even if it was true, do not propagate other people’s hate. do propagate other people’s love.

or let me put it this way for you: answer following questions for the audience:

do I, bismarck, love indian or hate indian?
do I, bismarck, love chinese or hate chinese?
do I, bismarck, love american or hate american?

Pure and simple, if you post your answer here, one way or the other, then you are more credible to post which national hates which national as you did.

otherwise, it's pure bonk.



I think TE is not biased; it is just their reporters don't have the gut to report from those places.

Away from the Red River Valley, the mountainous northwest Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic minorities (you can't believe tiny Vietnam have as many minorities as China has).

The Communists in Hanoi have never been nice to those minorities. In fact, they have jointly conducted genocide with the Pathet Laos against the Hmong by using chemical agents like "Yellow Rain" (just like how Saddam Hussein massacred the Shi'ite Moslems) in the mid '70s.

So that is why the Viet gang and Hmong gang keep fighting with each other in the inner-cities of U.S. due to such deep hatred.

In fact, Vietnamese soldiers seldom dared venture into those areas in small groups because there were many incidents of cannibalism.

Pacific Century


Every country fights for its own best national interests. It has nothing to do with morality.

The US and Europe have been exploiting Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East for decades (or centuries) for natural resources by colonization and by supporting numerous despotic regimes.

If the Europeans hadn’t exploited the First Nations Peoples (and countless poor Chinese workers who help built the Canadian Pacific Railway) and taken over their ancestral land, you wouldn’t have been able to live comfortably in a country called Canada today. Besides, Canada has a big stake in resources exploration in Mongolia. Isn’t that kind of exploitation as well?
Quote: “...Most countries in the West believe in democracy, human rights and freedom of speech...”

That’s only after they have become developed and got rich. Before that, they were a bunch of robbers and slave masters.
Quote: “...Having (racial) double-standards is something I really find despicable...”

Judging from your comments’ history, you seem to be rather discriminating to the Chinese too. Do you find yourself despicable?

I hope the Chinese students (if any) at your class won’t be graded unfairly because of their ethnicity.

Please, get off your moral high horse!



You wrote: Southeast Asian countries should remember that the Chinese strategy of conquest for thousands of years has been to “let barbarians fight barbarians.”

There must be a cause that leads to "Barbarians fight barbarians". The stark reality is that you guys down under cannot get along with each other for centuries, i.e. Burmese vs Thai, Cambodians vs Vietnamese, Vietnamese vs Hmong,.....etc., each one has deep-seated rivalry against each other than against China.


@tocharian wrote:
Jun 16th 2011 4:08 GMT

I find this talk about Chinese adding to the Burmese gene pool rather amusing. Being hold up in Canada you are definitely not contributing to the Burmese gene pool. Why don't you go back to Burma and use some of your hard earned money and buy a couple of Burmese wives to offset the Chinese chromosomes. Its your patriotic duty. The Burmese can definitely use your superior genetic material.

Get off your butt, go back to Burma. After a decade we will like to see some progress, whether or not you have 20 wives and on your 200th child. Stop playing with yourself and do something !!!


Besides, it would be nice if I don't have to treat Chinese and Indians as "visible minorities" anymore in Canada.


ref: China delivers military uniforms to Cambodia

"The government of China delivered 50,000 sets of military uniforms to Cambodia, signaling a closer defense cooperation between the two nations.

The hand-over ceremony was held at the Military Airport in Phnom Penh between Zhang Jianlin, Chinese military attach to Cambodia, and Lt. Gen. Sun Samnang, director general of Cambodia' s Defense Ministry's logistics and finance department, under the witness of the four-star general Moeung Samphan, a secretary of state for Cambodian Defense Ministry.

Speaking after the hand-over ceremony, Zhang Jianlin said that the donation of military uniforms was made after the meeting between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in May last year in Shanghai.

At that time, Hu Jintao pledged a joined package of 257 military trucks and 50,000 sets of military uniforms to Cambodia.

The 257 military trucks had delivered to Cambodia in June last year."

east wind

@ liveinhope

You said China is going to face peoples uprising soon


...seems like you are very confused here

ACTUALLY---- it is your India who is having to use its military to crush 3 wars of liberations/independences in Kashmir, Assam and Naxaland

India armies had already slaughtered 100000s of innocent Kashmiris, Nagas, Naxalites civilians---women & children

The United Nations receives daily complaints of 10000s of India armies atrocities, including rapes and tortures of civilians


@pl123, ewakorn, nkab, devils advocate,....

‘ Bismarck
Why we need more when we have you. You are the most hardworking typing monkey.’

watch out. this bismarck is some smart cookie but with insidious motive.

he enjoys free smearing of chinese through shooting from the hip frequently at will by hiding in the safe haven of anonymity of his own national origin so he won’t be skinned or whacked in kind in return. his deceitful disparity is unworthy.


@ ann le

'If China wants others to respect it, it do need to change…..', what a joker.

china wants nothing of the kind, china earns it. sooner or later you will respect it too.

Devils Advocate_1

[Bismarck888 wrote:
Jun 15th 2011 4:53 GMT


"Is that your formal way of admitting that you are a Singaporean of Indian descent? Can I put my piece on the 64th square now?"

I thought you thought I was a spawn of Indian/Chinese coupling -- the rarely noticed and often invisible -- Chindian. I spend my waking hours tormenting Chinese posters here, because they have tormented me during my youth. Now you say I am a mere Indian Singaporean, I feel so ordinary,

I won't expose my identity until you say which plane of Hell you belong too. I am not being rude, since your name is Devils_advocate, I assume you are a devil or belong to the underworld. I am going to assume you are Buddhist not because I think you are Buddhist, but because their version of cell is so much more "Oriental". Which one do you come from?

"The Thirteenth Floor:
Name: Pool of Blood

"The Fifth Floor:
Name: Chamber of Steamer
Function: Instigators and hypocrites will find themselves being steamed in a steamer. "

I prefer the fifth floor. I can imagine you being steaming like a little shrimp dumpling to be gobbled by your fellow Chinese on a Sunday morning.]

I don't where you get these "Floors" from. According to traditional Chinese notions, the worst and the deepest is the 18th Floor-- Downwards, of course. I guess you already know that. Maybe, I am from there-- Since you think that I am Chinese! ;-), ;-),...



@Devils Advocate_1

If "you willingly become someone's "deputy sheriff in Asia", you are already submitting yourself to someone's "suzerainty"."

I'm not sure if this comment highlights your shallow understanding of Australian foreign policy or your ignorance of international relations theory (though you do tend towards political realism).

You are welcome to your opinions.

You should have realised from this article and many of the comments from people from countries around Asia, that the world is a more complicated place than simplistic comments like that.


@Song: In the interview in 1964, that was done by, a reporter asked Ho Chi Minh President that whether Vietnam can depend on China and become a satellite of China. His answer is JAIMAIS.
It means NEVER. It's all Vietnamese people's answer.

Hoping that all articles abt East Sea will be attracted attention of countries in the world. Countries will be solved together, not China decides alone.


I don't get small countries. Why do they even exist? They are only going to be bullied by bigger countries. They should just join bigger countries or create a EU type thingy.


Of course, I always sympathise with "visible minorities" like the Chinese and "vanishing tribes" like the Sentinelese (much smaller numbers than the Chinese though!) in their need to preserve their ancient traditions and also in their need for more "Lebensraum" that they require for food, water, energy, gems, gas, girls, ... Burmese would be dumb, short-sighted and intolerant if they don't understand these overarching principles of human kindness and magnanimity.


@Devils Advocate_1

As much as you pretend to understand all facets of China, you have obviously not cared to see how it is perceived in Australia. And that is fine, if you don't live here, you don't have to.

Because Australia doesn't show proper deference and sensitivity to China then we should accept interference - interesting take on international relations.... You just keep proving my point forum after forum.

To then bring race in to it.... well you don't usually come across as juvenile, but you did this time. I didn't raise race, it is unimportant, but it seems to be the norm on here now to bring race into any forum where someone is critical in some vain attempt to explain away any differing opinion.

"It is the... West that has to live with the new reality of a rising China that doesn't take shit"

And it would seem it is China that will have to live with a more informed world in which their government cannot always control opinion, filter the news, censor the internet or stifle debate.

Quid pro quo! Both'll have to adjust


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