Dear Paul,

Whatever mining requires which presently foreign investment pays for,
the Chinese will take for free, whatever workforce, big or small they need:

If they need hands, holding picks and shovels, then they will take hands,
if they need drivers then they will take drivers,
but if they need brains, then they will take brains,
if they need explorers, then they will take explorers,
if they need scientists, then they will take scientists,
if they need teachers to train their own people in the same crafts of mining, then they will take teachers,
all at gunpoint, they can get exactly the same and more, just without paying
- and those they won't need, those of us they can discard, they will just kill.

Hi Yuyutsu,

Without evidence, you seem to harbour a very disagreeable opinion of the Chinese; "and those (Australians) they (Chinese) won't need, those of us they can discard, they will just kill."

The greatest weapon against a people is not guns, but fear, you seem to be well taken by fear of China. I believe we should be concerned about the rise of China in the scheme of thing, but it is their great rival the United States that wants to instill fear into people like you. Fear makes you more compliant, and therefore easily manipulated.

Dear Paul,

«you seem to be well taken by fear of China.»

Perhaps when I was younger, then I could be afraid of being taken in chains to dig the outback in 50° heat with only a bit of water as my salary.
But at my age? If the Chinese still took me now, then it would be considered a compliment...

And as for being killed, what could be better than having it all finished in a second by one bullet, compared with years of agonizing deterioration in a nursing home?

«but it is their great rival the United States that wants to instill fear into people like you.»

Why the hell?
Not that they do, not that I have anything to do with them, but what possibly could they hope to gain out of it?

Anyway, the United States is no longer relevant: whatever they promise is not worth the vapour from their mouth and whatever they sign is not worth the paper it is written on.

Also, the United States is no longer a rival of China, now that Trump, Putin and Xi all share the same philosophy and America is now only interested in taking over nearby countries like Canada, Greenland and Panama.

«Without evidence, you seem to harbour a very disagreeable opinion of the Chinese»

Just look at how they treat their own people, look at the millions they killed and tortured and the enormous destruction during their "cultural revolution", then how they treat the Uyghurs and Tibetans, look also at Chinese cruelty throughout their dynasties - then extrapolate how would they treat total strangers like us (if they can get away with it, as now they can)?

Vae Victis.

Here an interesting piece of info for you Yuyutsu..
The Americans are using the Uighur's to cause civil unrest in China.
- But China put a stop to that... To the Wests dismay

But get this, the West still had use for these Muslim extremists
The West sent them to Syria to fight with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham to help overthrow Assad.
True story.

I'd dig up the links, but everyone just thinks I'm the fool and never looks at my links anyway,
- a quick search will find that Uighur's of the Turkistan Islamic Party did help overthrow Assad.

Dear Critic,

Joking about people undergoing a holocaust, is just completely sick!

Locked up deep in Chinese concentration camps, they somehow according to you arrived in... Syria... yet even from Syria they are still unable to call their families and tell them whether they are alive or dead - how sick!

Next you will claim that China's cultural revolution did not happen either and that Tibet was a Western conspiracy too? Oh, the Falun Gong also...

Hi again Yuyutsu,

"Just look at how they treat their own people, look at the millions they killed and tortured"

The same can be said of America, Australia, Britain, etc what makes China different, the colour of their skin? Mans inhumanity to man is the greatest evil that has ever been perpetrated! Agree?

Reading a book 'Black Convicts' by Santilla Chingaipe, full of interesting anecdotes.

Take this one for example; A white plantation owner would have a truculent black slave held down while another black slave would be forced to defecate in that persons mouth, before having his mouth sown up. No, not in China, but a common practice in America.

Another example, black babies buried with only their heads protruding, while white men on horseback raced each other to club (decapitate) these poor screaming children in a grotesque sort of polo game. No, not in China, but a common practice in Australia.