A Resounding Voice From China Says “No” to Animal Cruelty  I was
overwhelmed with emotion when news of the government officials
canceling pending dog cull in Jiangmen reached me. It is a
relief that tens of thousands of lives are spared. But what
moved me even more is that this time, it wasn’t the appeals from
the international community that stopped the government
officials knee-jerk decision. It was the concern and outrage
from Chinese citizens flooding the internet and the media, which
eventually forced the local bureaucrats to back down!  To people
who don’t know about China, this victory of the people may not
seem at all significant. After all, in the countries where we
live in, officials are voted by the people and they normally
don’t do things that are not popular among their constituency.
But we are talking about China, a country where I was born and
grew up. I saw a Presidential election for the first time in my
life when I went to theUnited Statesto do post graduate study.
Government officials repr