China represents a bigger problem than even the problems the United States is going through and will coninue go through in regards to our place in the world.

China still forces it's people do to the kind of job the Chinese government wants them to do, not the kind of job they may have a passion for.

And then there's this...
The Horror

I've seen the most ghastly images from China of animals skinned alive. One image that will forever haunt me is of a skinned racoon, still alive, raising it's head from the pile of racoon carcasses below it, to survey it's own demise. Not once, but twice does this heroic animal, soon to die, lift up it's head to survey it's own furless skin.

Animals are human, I think they are more human than humans, and humans seem to be more like animals than animals are.

China is an interesting place because it probably is both the oldest and most populated country on the planet. China is a domineering, in your face country in which the government dictates the very emotions its populace will feel.

Proof?

Chinese are not allowed to have dogs as pets. They can have a pet as a dog, for a two year period, until the pet is ready to be
ripped of it's fur for the fur industry, but if chinese person shows any attachment or emotion towards the dog during those two years, the dog is shot.

I don't condemn China because it may be the same scenario as what I've said about Saddam Hussein, if Saddam had been a more humane president, would he have stayed in power?
The same litmus test may apply to the Chinese government, if they were to show real humanity to their people, would they lose control of their country?

Ever get the feeling that humans are the scourge of the earth with artistic talents thrown in,

I do.