29 Replies to “We Should Thank China”

    1. Also Vietnam, India, Tibet, Nepal, Korea, Mongolia, Italy, Greece, Montenegro, the Philippines…

  1. “Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts” applies to everybody, especially vile regimes like China’s.
    OTOH, they do make some great, inexpensive electronics, best value/cost ratio on the planet, and they implicitly support right-to-repair, with lots of open-source hardware and software.

    I just got me a pretty powerful oscilloscope for less than $300 delivered, 100Mhz, protocol decoding, huge library of triggers, measurements, lotsa math functions, a FFT that’ll work pretty well as a spectrum analyzer…

    1. The issue with their electronics are hostile chips attached to communications channels like USB (in the case of the oscilloscope). That is the reason that I never ever buy a computer from China – Lenovo, Cyberpower and others are suspect because you don’t know what else has been included as a spy feature. And none of their designs are their own.

      1. 1. I think I can be pretty confident that if hostile comm. was included in ‘scopes USB controller chips, the hacker crowd would have found them. It ain’t hard to decode the USB protocol, look at the bits in it, etc.
        2. Apple, Samsung, etc, all source many of their chips from China, heck Apple has just bragged about spying on everybody, and are creating one of the world’s largest surveillance bot-nets.

          1. I’m betting that you don’t have a clue as to how much of your stuff is made in China, so spare me the Greenpeace “Think globally, act locally” virtue-signaling.

        1. Ooh, looks like someone’s not quite so clear of conscience about his cheap ChiCom shit as he’d like to pretend. XD

    2. And they probably collect every piece of information within a 100 feet of your oldsillyscope..

  2. Set that marker against everything they’ve ever stolen from us or ill gained and we only begin to approach a miniscule fraction in balance.

  3. What a dumb bunny. Seriously, are you that stupid? Rhetorical – so never mind.
    Thankfully for him there are people within the party without smooth brains who know there are some issues with the optics and gave him a verbal finger flip to the ear.
    I can hear him already. “What!!!! What I do wrong????
    Indeed. Think of it as putting colours in with the whites when you’re doing the laundry. That dumb.

    Further – I know you’re into pumping websites and I don’t have a problem with it only because it’s your blog. But linking to websites where registration and logins are required to read a story just seems counterintuitive to me if you’re trying to make a point.

    1. Then pretend that Kate made this post.
      Then pretend that it doesn’t cost over $300 to register.

  4. ShouIdn’t we thank them for creating COVID in the Iab first; you know, before thanking them for the chinese made crap that didn’t protect peopIe from the virus anyway?

    1. If Dogmeat gets the PM’s office, whaddya wanna bet he stacks his cabinet with other Sikhs?

    1. Harper signed that deal.
      We are being played like chumps, have been for over a century now.

  5. Let’s think chicoms for cleaning out every pharmacy in Canada when the pandemic started and sending supplies back home…

    1. I suppose its possible, but it would take a lot of corrupt doctors to write out 5 year prescriptions. I’ve never been able to get a doc to that for me. It raises red flags with the various MAs.

  6. The MP represents Don Valley North – I used to live in that riding. It has a large Chinese population mostly arriving beginning in the 1980’s through the 1990’s. From what I could tell, most were from Hong Kong so they would likely distrust the CCP although in the 2000’s I started to see more from mainland China.

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