Python Tries to Eat Alligator: An Analogy for China

I randomly found this when I was looking for pictures of Burmese pythons (because who doesn't look for pictures of Burmese pythons?): 

"In 2005, a 13-foot Burmese python tried to swallow an indigenous 6-foot alligator in Everglades National Park. However, the alligator was too big that python’s stomach ripped open. Later on, the biologists and ecologists figured out that the python was starving for days. This also is an apt analogy that represents the Chinese ambition: desires overwhelming the reasonable consciousness." 

Sick, huh?! (Mostly the python story but I guess China's ambitions are kinda sick, too)

The reason I was looking for pictures of Burmese pythons was because I was reading the "Room for Debate" article in the New York Times: Killing Pythons and Regulating Them.  It is about the fact that Florida has, apparently, experienced an "Invasion of the Giant Pythons,"  at least according to the show of that name on PBS.  They got there by a combination of irresponsible pet owners but also the hurricanes that wrecked exotic-pet warehouses and set them loose across the state. Florida now has the highest concentration of non-native amphibian and reptiles species in the world. 

Now, I kind of think this is wicked cool, but there is the problem of them ruining the entire balance of the ecosystem, like the Brown Tree Snake has done in Guam. Fortunately, the recent cold spell killed as many as half of them. Experts hope that a combination of nature and concerted efforts to manage the population will allow successful containment. 

Now I want to watch A Series of Unfortunate Events!  Uncle Monty is my hero!