Europeans, those old China despoilers, are reduced to asking the Chinese to lend them money so they can avert economic disaster. The Chinese coolly say, “We may, for a price.” And what is that price to be? It is payback time for the long nosed round eyes.

To Portugese, the old Chinese

Were simply not quite human

They plied the whips to load the ships

But never made them crewmen

The British too, a skittish crew

Took Hong Kong for a pittance

To bring in smack, a mark so black

Then left to a ‘Good riddance’

Well that was then, and that was when

But now that China’s risen

They’re getting theirs, and now prepares

To give the long nose his’n

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