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Let’s make a list of things made in China

In China, they make plastic dolls, plastic cars and plastic houses

Yet when it’s playtime, it is not plastic figures

They manufacture click pens in red, black and blue

Whose tip magically appears and disappears at a click.

When you write democracy, freedom and justice

They make fine strings of musical instruments

As loose as they hold their people together.

Yet with all that knowledge they still confuse

They make plastic combs which break easier than

They make handbags which carry the burden of

Broken houses, people and the dreams they make.

They make papers so thin that they will rear if your

Yet thick enough to bling our thoughts and senses

In China, they make bandages which fail to bandage

In China, they make painkillers and yet induce

In China, they make cloth to wipe the blood they spill

In China, they make PVC pipes and for all our mighty rivers they drain

They make bamboo houses which are as hollow as the words of their government

They make chopsticks which can’t hold a rebel’s food in hand

They make highways only for vehicles which can follow the line

They will enter your land, our land, and declare “It's mine!”

Yet fail to throw light on their authoritarian government

They make machines which make machines to make machines which make machines

They make uniforms perfectly fit to number down the people

Homogenizing nations, cities majors and minors

They sing songs about building roads to connect the world

When they build a wall around each one of their citizens

And to give due credit where credit is due

All the cement and bricks of the great wall and Firewall are made in China

They manufacture cell phones in plenty of numbers

Yet fail to connect their increasing number of people

They exploit nature under their territory and around

They sell Starbucks coffee all around the world

Yet no stars shine on their part of town, they make watches with fancy dials

Yet have no time to look back on their sin

They make wax crayons of all the colours in the rainbow

And then they use the black one to censor the whole scenery

And lock up all who use them in purgatory

They made tanks strong enough to reduce mountains to plains

Yet all that strength failed next to the stronger heart of tank man

We will make a list of things not made in China

And in that list above sanity, humanity and justice

We will note down the names of you and me

Made in China

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