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To: TobagoJack who wrote (145416)	1/13/2019 10:03:14 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 217669

I just finished Ip Man 1 :))\Saw it (Sandpebbles) as a kid at drive in.. Dad thought Steve was great.. Mr. encyclopedia here pointed out the errors of his ways :) (Dad's.. Dad reverted more to Chineseness from French as I grew up..funny how that developed.. I lived it.. in retrospect.. very interesting)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (145416)	1/13/2019 10:29:19 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By dvdw© Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217669

I guess it would have been better if the great and illustrious British Empire which educated and enabled Eugene was adopted as an excellent partner for development with China. Maybe Eugene and co had fun evicting the British, but that did leave the way open for Japan to think of a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere which turned out to be not all that much fun for China. China's bacon was saved by an off-shoot of the British Empire = USA, which I guess China preferred to Japan. Japan had not adopted Christian concepts such as universality and the civilisation norms of Virtuous Victorian Values of the British Empire which Eugene enjoyed. Of course it was not unalloyed Virtue back in the day with gunboat diplomacy, opium wars and general bossiness being all too much to the fore in China in general and Shanghai in particular. It's somewhat ironic that the USA is now complaining about Fentanyl being supplied as Made in China though it's a much more efficacious brain poison than herbal opium which was freely available around the British Empire and was not a China-only product. I find it odd to blame suppliers rather than consumers of such poisons. If adults want to drink wine or whisky, smoke tobacco, dope or opium, then I consider it's up to them. The very illegality seems to be a promotional point showing daring to indulge and give the flip to authorities. In Singapore of course they don't mess about so being cool and with the in-crowd is unattractive when ending up as an organ donor. Personally, I like none of the above [Japan, China, USA, UK] as ways of organizing the human realm. Mqurice