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were before the tragedy. The Chinese say, "Here are people
who are not trying to overpower us, they are fighting with us
against a common roe. The pirates destroy our Country's
honour, our business, not to mention our lives. We must
join in the effort to suppress these wicked men".
Chinese New Year if now over with very little out of
the ordinary having happened and we can hope that the year
ahead will be the beginning of the end of piracy and that we
will have peace and prosperity together with a better
understanding between the Chinese and the foreigner.
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