People's attitudes have been changing over the past 15 years, but China is still the world's biggest consumer of dogs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
The Chinese consumer is everybody. It's very simple.
China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.
A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.
I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.
Around the world, when China has good results, people always think something bad.
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.
There are more dog owners in America than there are conservatives.