China: WTF are you thinking?!?

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 18, 2002, 3:14 pm

http://www.taipeitimes.com/news/2002/07 ... 0000148688

America has it's problems and issues, but goddamn! That is insane!

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » July 18, 2002, 3:20 pm

yikes

Akaran_D · Post by **Akaran_D** » July 18, 2002, 4:04 pm

I can't get it to load.. whole page is filled with too many connection errors..

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » July 18, 2002, 4:08 pm

basically, according to the Taipai Times, Chinese women who are married to Taiwanese men are being forced to have an abortion if they are pregnant or undergoe tubal ligectomy.

Fallanthas · Post by **Fallanthas** » July 18, 2002, 4:10 pm

Chinese birth-control policy is very harsh, and their xenophobia is legendary. Unless one can prove birth of an ancestor on mainland China, you cannot assume any rights of a citizen, regardless of how many generations your family may have resided there. The abortion of female babies is a well-known fact. So is the exposure of female children after birth.

It ain't like home.

Adex_Xeda · Post by **Adex_Xeda** » July 18, 2002, 4:27 pm

To me, the collective personality I see from the Chinese leadership is that of a tempermental teenager.

They get indignant over the oddest things.

Stranger yet, the Chinese students I've shared classes with refuse to go in depth about things there. My every honest inquiry is quickly evaded.

There was only one guy who ever said much to me. He studied like a banshee. He lived and breathed his books. One night I asked him why he didn't kick back a bit and relax. He told me that his family took out a loan with the local mafia in China to finance his education. His job was to quickly get a degree and return to pay off that "loan" or his family would be at risk. Now that's what I call motivation.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » July 18, 2002, 4:31 pm

I used to live with 2 pricks from Uzbekistan (they claimed to be in the Taliban until Sept 11, see what I mean, prick pricky pricksons)

They also had to take a loan, if the failed their family was going to be fucked.

Of course, they may have been lying through their ass, it wouldn't surprise me.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » July 18, 2002, 5:15 pm

In 50 years, there won't be a woman in the entire country, and we'll have 3 billion VERY pissed off Chinese dudes to deal with.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 18, 2002, 5:19 pm

I heard that the mafia thing was an issue with Russian players in the NHL as well.

masteen · Post by **masteen** » July 18, 2002, 5:29 pm

I was talking with some friends (citizens of the Czech Republic, but they have family in the Ukraine and Russia) and they say that it's getting increasingly difficult to tell their Mafia apart from the government. That is a VERY scary thing to me.

Arundel Pajo · Post by **Arundel Pajo** » July 18, 2002, 5:48 pm

Nothing would surprise me about the mafia in Russia. It's scary.

Moscow, for example, is almost entirely mob run.