For a so-called "global superpower" who has done nothing but endlessly smearing and villifying those very countries for the past years and decades, if I am in such position as that lady, I would be fvcking embarrassed.
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Saudi Arabia now prepares for the ball to start rolling...
The Doomsday Clock has been moved to 90 seconds before midnight.
90 seconds is also the closest it has ever been to midnight.
90 seconds is also the closest it has ever been to midnight.
Why should the Anglo care over the smoking rubbles of German cities? His core cities are located far, far behind enemy lines, in a different continent. Like a demonic parasite, he can only do damage by being invited in and it is the Eastern Europeans with their petty grievances against Germany and Russia that have invited this parasite in.
Also, Pelosi isn't going to exorcise her husband's homosexuality with a priest. Has she tried praying the gay away or gay re-education camps?
The ridiculousness of the Culture War in the US:
They're trying to get these countries to be militarily dependent on the US. That's why they keep offering US replacements. A country using US equipment becomes a US vassal state because it then becomes dependant on the US government to approve follow up sales of arms, maintenance and support.
Shameless opportunism.
It's just America being America.
It's from this article
Beauty gurus across Japan are going potty for styles of make-up made famous by starlets from China. The boom began four years ago with the break-out success of a look known as Chiborg. That combines the words for China and cyborg; it aims to make young faces seem preternaturally chiselled. More trendy now is chunyu (pure desire), which involves trying to look alluring and innocent all at once. Chinese celebrities have beauty “on another level”, says Nanako (pictured), a 24-year-old Japanese woman who also has lots of followers online.
Enthusiasm for these styles is driving up sales in Japan of Chinese brands of cosmetics, such as Florasis and zeesea. Older Japanese have long avoided Chinese products, which they consider inferior. But their children are less likely to assume this, with some justification. For years Japan had the world’s second-most-valuable market for cosmetics, after America; the Chinese market outgrew it in 2019. China’s make-up firms have grown more competent, and more inventive, as their sales have ballooned.
Tensions over disputed islands and Taiwan have poisoned ties between Japan and China in recent years. But unlike the trade in products such as semiconductors, which governments seek to control, cosmetics are “apolitical”, says Goto Yasuhiro of Asia University in Tokyo. Behind the rows, he says, youth cultures in Japan, China and South Korea are growing increasingly alike.
A survey in 2021 suggested that more than 40% of Japanese aged 18-29 feel “affinity” towards China, compared with only 13% among those in their 60s and 70s. Sugai Fumihito, who works for an outpost of the Beijing Language and Culture University in Tokyo, says many youngsters studying Mandarin at his institution cite Chinese make-up as a reason for their interest. “I never imagined a day when Japanese consider Chinese to be ‘cool’,” he says. “Lots of Japanese have started to admire Chinese people,” echoes Ms Chang. “That’s thanks to Chinese make-up.”■7