re: #212 Justanotherhuman

Where is our Man in China, Wheat? Is this kind of attack getting more common?

Attackers wound 6 people in an attack at a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, police and state media say - @Reuters
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Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) is the third largest city in China. It looks quite modern, big and bustling with over 12M people residing within the city proper, according to the 2010 census, and up to 40M within the area surrounding it in the Pearl River delta. That’s more than 10% of the entire US population within an area of about 7,700 sq miles.

The entire Black population of the US is 39,623,138, as of 2012. factfinder2.census.gov

en.wikipedia.org

Back in the 18th century (and lasting into the 19th), then-Canton was the only Chinese port at which European traders were permitted. Thus it has long been a center of trade. Sadly, though, that same trade later came to involve opium brought in by the British, leading to the ugly events that were the Opium Wars.