Years ago, I worked for a Bay area start-up. We hired a young Chinese guy who worked for us for about a year. He was a hard worker but contributed no patents or publications (intellectual property), and left, returning to China. He ended up (according to my former boss) appropriating a decent chunk of alkane activation technology back to China.
Zhu-lin (I recall his name) spent what little time he socialized talking about how the map of the real China resembled a giant chicken, with the Korean peninsula as the wattle and Vietnam being the feet and legs. You can see this rightward facing chicken if you look at a map and use a little imagination. He said (ca. 1998) that it was only a matter of time before the chicken was whole again.
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*h/t Legal Insurrection
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The Monster Chicken Heart is on the loose!
That was the best illustration I could find. You have to look at a modern map of the region to appreciate how long a chicken's legs are.
What, like several thousand years?
Maw Ha' Sau'
The East Is Red!
Mao is Dead!!
The Dragon is a Chicken!!!
The Yellow glows,
The Yangtze flows --
Middle Kingdom lickin'!
Kung Pow!
YoungHegelian said...
The Chinese have the same problem in their near-abroad as the Russians: i.e, their neighbors hate them.
The Chinese are fooling themselves if they think they can piss off the Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Thais, Mongolians, Russians, & Indians, all backed by the US in their resistance to Chinese expansion & get away with it. The history of Chinese military adventurism in their near-abroad has not been a series of successes for China.
If their plans run a-fowl of all their neighbors does it mean they were a bunch of dumb clucks?
(I know, had to...)
I never noticed that similarity between the shape of china and a chicken.
I never noticed that similarity between the shape of china and a chicken.
That's because it's like Calgon detergent.
I never knew it until that guy told me.
China and Vietnam had a brief, nasty war back in the seventies. If I remember correctly, China lost 40,000 men. It was not a military success.....The Chinese army is made up of only sons. One or two of the old style human wave assaults and China will become a nation of Cindy Sheehans.
That pic is sweet.
How many commenters on this blog personally knew a Chinese national harvesting IP in the US? I knew a guy in college who extended his degree because he was busy trawling the technical libraries at our very large land-grant university for his father's concern's purposes. chickenlittle makes two.
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