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You're probably right about the disappearances.

They must have video coverage of every public nook and crany and vista.

And they are ruthless, relentless, persistent and patient about revenge.

"And they are ruthless, relentless, persistent and patient about revenge"

Makes sense. Wasn't it an old Chinese proverb that says revenge is a dish best served cold?

<< And they are ruthless, relentless, persistent and patient about revenge. >>

But they also suffer psychopathological hesperophobia, of the kind that, for example, makes them all cringe with humiliation every time they remember that a hundred-odd years ago, a handful of Englishmen in a few wooden ships at the end of a ten-thousand miles long supply line took on the Middle Kingdom and soundly whipped its arse.

That's why they are still making anguished films about mindless barbarians, ang moh kwi and gwai loh forcing opium [Then as ordinary a commodity as is, say, perrier water today] on them -- and will be in another hundred and fifty years time.

It is also why they have about done looting Hong Kong, which on July 1 1997 comprised 27.5% of "china's" net worth -- and now doesn't amount to a hill of beans -- and why they will inevitably brutally, barbarically and savagely repress any real movement toward independence there in a way that will make the slaughter of Tiananmen Square's four thousand look like a disagreement among friends.

And they are cringing cravenly-cowardly bullies which is why although they will most certainly slaughter Hong Kong's unarmed and innocent once-FRee-British-Hong-Kong Citizens by the thousands, should they feel the need, they will not touch the FRee Men of the FRee Republic of China on Taiwan unless with massive mass-destructive [Nuclear] force.

Knowing as they do that should they try to take Taiwan by any means other than behind weapons of mass destruction, Taiwan's FRee Men will kick their much-vaunted billion plus arses all the way to Kunming -- and beyond! As, all those scores of years ago, did that handful of Englishmen they cannot get out of their minds.