They get billions of free money from the US annually, political power in the US, and protection.... no way they will give that up
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They get billions of free money from the US annually, political power in the US, and protection.... no way they will give that up
Would you have to lay down a jointed track to get the clity clack sound as well?
Maybe need to import a train from India, where one can look out the window mid-trip and see pedestrians walking faster
Based on comments made over the years, I highly suspect many of the members here are in the top 1% of earners.
Probably not. More like top 10%. Top one percenters have more important things to worry about.
If you've been paying attention to Taiwanese news you may have heard them making a big deal of their recent diplomatic breakthrough with a 30 second dialogue with Kamala Harris, well this is how it actually went down:
Lai Ching-te everyone, Vice President of Republic of China
They went full Jai. You never go full Jai.
Well, this one is actually the more dignified version. Someone should dig up the picture when former ROC President Chen Shuibian was chasing or ambushing US President Clinton for a handshake some years ago.
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Is this their new strategy to try to deter reunification? To be so cringe that China doesn’t want them back anymore?
Westerners will latch on to everything this guy says, but the moment he goes off script it makes them squirm. As an aside, Ai Weiwei to me is anarchist, an extreme individualist.
Ai Weiwei: ‘It’s obvious Covid is not a natural disease, it’s something that leaked out’
The most famous living artist on China's ‘ice cold, cruel’ response to the pandemic – and why the Olympics is ‘just a business event’
Ai Weiwei sighs and looks annoyed. “The West trying to understand China is like a soccer school trying to understand how to play a chess game,” he says. “It’s a completely different sort of system. You have too much confidence in your own ideology, or the kind of language you’re using, but you don’t understand the situation.”
Ai Weiwei: ‘It’s obvious Covid is not a natural disease, it’s something that leaked out’
The most famous living artist on China's ‘ice cold, cruel’ response to the pandemic – and why the Olympics is ‘just a business event’
Ai Weiwei sighs and looks annoyed. “The West trying to understand China is like a soccer school trying to understand how to play a chess game,” he says. “It’s a completely different sort of system. You have too much confidence in your own ideology, or the kind of language you’re using, but you don’t understand the situation.”