Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Could China blow-up?

Anything Chinese isn't very popular these days. From poisonous food and pharmaceuticals, dangerous toys, shoddy clothing to the bad treatment of Tibetans, the world is now looking at this immense country with reprobation. So what’s going to happen next; a war between this rising country and the rest of us? My headline may sound extreme, but this is precisely the outcome the West is envisioning to win the war against the Chinese. The entertainment forces (mostly American) will first take positions with their lamest films and TV programs and gradually seep into the Confucian minds, instilling the noble values of consumerism, selfishness and greed that we’ve been practicing assiduously for more than a century. The Detroit automotive commandos will then arrive and work at wrapping every single Chinese into a four-wheel box that spew CO2 and will bring massive gridlock into Beijing, Shanghai, the rest of the country’s cities and roadways. Finally the drink, food and drug armies will join the Marlboro cowboy to convert the 1.3 billion inhabitants from Mao’s Red Guards into Coke drinkers, Pizza Hut devotees and Big Mac addicts. Within a few years China will begin to bulge, turn into a humongous bubble and a large explosion will follow; so be well prepared; it might just blow us all up…

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