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Seems unlikely for cultural reasons. Consuming obscure, rare, and endangered species is a significant component of traditional Chinese medicine (which is also widely practiced elsewhere in Asia) regardless of efficacy.

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Odds are against it in the short term, I'd agree. But cultures do change, albeit reluctantly. There are Chinese animal rights movements. And there's a huge growth in tertiary science education, which 'traditional Chinese medicine' (really a misnomer) falls foul of

And? The west is currently in the process of dismantling a lot of it's culture to accommodate minorities so I don't see why china gets a free pass for cultural reasons.

I don’t see how the west is undertaking this process. The west has adopted and successfully implemented classical liberalism and set up flourishing liberal economies. In order to support these economies and the form of government they prop up, the west needs a constantly increasing growth and workers. Given that birth rates are falling and westerners (read white folks) are not moving in search of work as much as they used to domestically and internationally, the west needs to attract workers from outside the west.

These workers allow the economies to grow and in turn demand they be treated as first class citizens.

I am not sure how this is “dismantling culture”

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