New Chinese slogan "space shots, not rabies shots". Do you think it was more cost effective to kill all the dogs, rather than manage the disease through dog and/or human healthcare? Will they kill all the other varmints, if there's a breakout in another species? This kind of behavior could lead to major trouble down the road.
And then there's the point that how they treat pets is indicative of how they treat people. For instance
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China's mines are by far the world's deadliest, with some 6,300 deaths last year in mine floods, explosions and fires
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/02/14/china.mine/
And we enable and reward this behavior by our obsession with buying cheap Chinese products.