Richard,
I guess I ought to have used the oft-used code name of "Chet Atkins" instead of "C---ks" which was used by me, not in a derogatory sense, but to emphasize what/how the WCOTC regard the Chinese, a so-called "mongrelized" sub-par species! (BTW, no offence meant to namesakes of, and Chet Atkins himself, a talented guitarist).
Yes, I agree that mongrelization does give advanced or improved characteristics but there is also a risk of producing sub-par characteristics. As with most things in life, there are risks and there are risks!
(Gee! It's interesting that, in advanced chemistry, quantum-mechanical "hybridization" of atomic and molecular orbitals produces more stable orbitals as well as less stable/degenerate orbitals!!!)
If anything, the ongoing Cox investigation reminds us that
1. money talks!!!
2. practical-minded businessmen are always out to make short/long- term profits whenever/however they can!!!
3. BTW, the Chinese have always been a highly pragmatic people:
they certainly don't believe in reinventing the wheel, do they???
To be sure, they are beginning to realise that whilst money
can buy them anything, it can't buy them LOVE, as the song goes. |
