Steroids from China

Well, if China-US trade relations can't get any worse it gets worse. I have a feeling things are going to get a lot worse before things stabilize.

In the past year it has been toys, food, cribs, toothpaste and now steroids and HGH.

Performance enhancing drugs has been part of the world sports scene for a long time now but it has received its brightest spotlight this year with the breaking of the most legendary and fabled record in American sports. Barry Bonds' anatomic makeover reputedly began about 7 years ago. At that time Bonds was considered a sure hall of famer, but nobody thought he could challenge Hank Aaron's all time home run record of 755. In the past 7 years Bonds has had some of the most productive home run seasons even though he has been in his late 30s to early 40s. Last month Bonds broke Aaron's record and the reception was muted from baseball fans everywhere.

With all of this going on this year in the realm of world trade and sports, now we have the news of a drug bust of unprecedented size where it has been discovered that China supplies about 75% of the world trade in performance enhancing drugs.

Seems like the secret behind the China's economic miracle in the past 20 year where GDP growth has been averaging around double digits annually is being revealed. The Chinese have been engaging in not just legitimate industries but the illegitimate ones as well. It seems there is no industry where the Chinese would find immoral to get involved with. The problem is that they are so damn good at it just highlights everything that much more.

Sometimes as an ethnic Chinese, I can't help but to feel embarrassed about some of the shady business that the Chinese are involved