UK PM rejects Chinese request to remove 'offensive' poppies during visit

Good for him. At least he has balls!

And I'd like the Chinese to remove themselves from Tibet.

For an international power, or how they would like to see tehmselves,

the Chinese have a lot to learn.


Looks like they just just received Fuck Off 101.

I guess the little fuckers aren't very appreciative of the Western soldiers that died fighting to help defend China from Japan!

Oh that never happened, Commie government you know.

Oh that never happened, Commie government you know.
Yeah, I guess Claire Chenneault and company were just giving sight-seeing flights of the Great Wall of China

It's definitely a clue that the Chinese 'aint quite ready for primetime yet. They can remember the Opium wars but not WW1 or WW2?

Did they do a French Revolution job and reset the clock to 'year zero' after the Great March or summat?

The white poppy is the one that produces Opium, not the red one. But let's not let facts get in the way of their little rant.

He probably would have like them to tell them to blow it out their ass, I guess he did in diplomatic PC speech.

No offence, but they are guests in China. I don't think Canada would want Chinese government people to wear something offensive to Canada?

Smartest thing? Don't go to a country like this at a time like this. I think it is unnecessary to provoke. They are there to build relations, not to tear them apart.

Oh they remember WW2 alright - just take a look at how they deal with Japan. The distrust of the West in China far predates Mao and the Communists.

I'm glad that the British PM stood firm and said no, but the fact is that the two Opium Wars (and the Boxer Rebellion in 1900) are still very contentious issues in China.

For example, in 1860, British & French troops burned the original Summer Palace to the ground, looting and destroying a set of gardens, canals, and buildings that were hundreds of years old. The Chinese rebuilt it over the course of 20 or so years and they were again destroyed by foreign troops (this time by the Eight Nation alliance in 1900/01). As a result, they left it in ruins and it's a rather sad place these days - and a focal point of distrust of foreign countries.

It's just like if a few years from now a Chinese army went into London, looted all the museums, destroyed Parliament and Big Ben and burned down Westminster Abbey. Then to add insult to injury, just after you rebuilt everything, they came back and did it again. Something tells me Britons wouldn't be so quick to forget it either - and frankly, I wouldn't blame them either.

The hockey league here in North Van scheduled hockey games right through the Remembrance Day ceremony. Can you believe that? I can't go to the ceremony because both kids have games.