Ahhh. OK, I didn't know "anti-Japan" was so strongly a part of Chinese government policy. On the other hand, this supposed collaboration with Japan does take place something like thirty years from now, so possibly they'd moderated their views -- and anyway, it was a secret collaboration, so only a few cynical people at the highest levels really needed to know....
The question of why the Chinese didn't speak up about Japan's complicity is something I'm kicking myself for not thinking through when I did the write-up. Grasping desperately at some more creative excuses, I note that I described the U.S. response and the Indian-Pakistani response -- but the Europeans would've been pretty ticked off too, and France and the U.K. are both nuclear powers. For that matter, someone in what was left of Russia might've still had the capability to send nukes flying. Some of those, from the French, the Brits, and/or the Ivans, could hit the Three Rivers and the Hwang Ho as was suggested earlier in the thread. More to the point, if decapitation strikes zapped China's government (especially if they had the coordinates for one or more of those "leadership continuity" secret headquarters), the Euros might have wiped out anybody in China who knew the Japanese had helped them build the bio-weapons -- before they had a chance to get the message out. desperate grasping at excuses>
With reference to Jeap's concerns (sorry I took so long), I was under the impression that weaponized diseases could be engineered to be less unstable -- especially with the techniques available, again, thirty years in the future.
As for the quarantine, yes, it couldn't be perfect ... but it was a very ruthlessly enforced quarantine....
Oh, and K Sai, about that novel: I was alarmed at your description of it as an "action block buster on steroids," 'cause most action blockbusters already seem to be on some sort of illegal drugs -- or at least the writers do....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.
The question of why the Chinese didn't speak up about Japan's complicity is something I'm kicking myself for not thinking through when I did the write-up. Grasping desperately at some more creative excuses, I note that I described the U.S. response and the Indian-Pakistani response -- but the Europeans would've been pretty ticked off too, and France and the U.K. are both nuclear powers. For that matter, someone in what was left of Russia might've still had the capability to send nukes flying. Some of those, from the French, the Brits, and/or the Ivans, could hit the Three Rivers and the Hwang Ho as was suggested earlier in the thread. More to the point, if decapitation strikes zapped China's government (especially if they had the coordinates for one or more of those "leadership continuity" secret headquarters), the Euros might have wiped out anybody in China who knew the Japanese had helped them build the bio-weapons -- before they had a chance to get the message out. desperate grasping at excuses>
With reference to Jeap's concerns (sorry I took so long), I was under the impression that weaponized diseases could be engineered to be less unstable -- especially with the techniques available, again, thirty years in the future.
As for the quarantine, yes, it couldn't be perfect ... but it was a very ruthlessly enforced quarantine....
Oh, and K Sai, about that novel: I was alarmed at your description of it as an "action block buster on steroids," 'cause most action blockbusters already seem to be on some sort of illegal drugs -- or at least the writers do....
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Big Brother is watching you. And damn, you are so bloody BORING.