Oh wow, aren't you just the finest ambassador your people have sent out this week ... maybe you and Yiwu could draw straws for the nicks Mun Kee See and Mun Kee Doo-Doo ... but thanks for the news of the Olympics being advanced a couple of years, we'd better hurry and get ready
By the by, Zapata probably heard of Marx but is unlikely to have bought a card, and never concerned himself with anything but recovering stolen land, with its inherent right to self-determination - Message 21228922
You are right back there about the taiwanese though, it is for them to decide their own future, and no one else ... mainland chinese have little claim, the indigenous were an austronesian people when came along the portugues and dutch and spanish, all of whom have greater right than han chinese, if that mattered, but it doesn't, the overriding right goes to the taiwanese ... that said, they should play it cool with the terminology ... be like canadians with our relationship with the UK, we never ever use the word 'independence', that is the stuff of mad revolution, better to go with thoughtful evolution
Japanese glossing over war crimes, yes that is pretty stupid of them ... calls for an appropriate measured response maybe though, i think Mq is right about chicom rulers using it as distraction from domestic problems, that's been done all over since the beginning of time |
