Nah, let them come. In fact let everyone and their grandma come as long as they are not Blinken, Sullivan, or Yellen. Let the dogs come but not the master.
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Nah, let them come. In fact let everyone and their grandma come as long as they are not Blinken, Sullivan, or Yellen. Let the dogs come but not the master.
Well, Macron does need a mom or grandma to give him comfort and instruction being such a good mama boy.
So far not one person who's a somebody from the Democrats have met Tsai, it's all small fries from GOP. So it's mainly McCarthy and Pompeo to watch out for at the moment.
In fact this is strange enough that Taiwanese news are suspecting maybe Biden and Xi made a deal to demonstrate sincerity for dialogue and they're using Tsai as an opportunity to demonstrate good behavior from Democrats and to show that Biden indeed can control his party. Some of them are already calling this Biden's "Empty Fort Strategy" and that Tsai is shown as just a piece on the board that can easily be sacrificed if necessary.
I heard the best shit talk from KMT for a long time on this occasion. One of them is saying Tsai is “挤自己的奶 - 自取其辱”.
Tom Cotton will be forced to accept the reality that his kid just one first place on a crappy Xi Jinping Thoughts themed game show.
Cottons father was also a U.S. senator which is NOT an indication of nepotism and shows that ANYONE can become a U.S. senator….so long as they have a senator father, money and connections to stay out of active combat duties whilst in the armed forces. I don’t think Tom cotton got his ass shot at in Fallujah is what I’m saying.
Bloody hell, there go my plans to use Finland as my refuge for when Armed Reunification starts. Seems i'll have to fall back to Cuba or Argentina.
You know ...
That is what I thought too, 30 years ago. No joke.
I also thought there would be an uprising over there.
Wrong again!
They are a very spiritual people. The reincarnation forever, until you reach Nirvana, until then life is suffering.
As for the rest of us, India's biggest export will continue to be its people.
Yes, that is the same thing I heard 30 years, spoken by a Singaporean. They knew the score.
Probably that CEO TikTok's man relative or something.
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Now, to be fair, in North American context, TTC is great. The subway is actually pretty frequent (it's a subway, duh) and fairly reliable. The bus network is actually extensive, and also frequent and decently reliable, making living in suburbs without a car actually somewhat tolerable (and millions of working-class Torontonians who cannot afford a car actually do rely on TTC).
Torontonians do complain a lot, and rightfully so. But compared to being at the whims of YRT and DRT and friends (i.e. transit agencies of some of the outer suburban municipalities, not under the juristiction of City of Toronto), or having to sit in some random GO train station for THREE HOURS because GO transit sh*t the bed, and ended up having to be shuttle-bused back to my home, TTC really isn't that bad. It's got a bad rap precisely because many people actually uses it.
Of course, compared to major transit system of any major East Asian cities, none of them are any good. No contest. Whomever made that list must have some really good weed. I bet they ordered it from some black-market mail-order place instead of government store
It's a pretty low bar comparing it to YRT, don't you think? I don't see Vaughan on that list
My main gripe with the TTC is that the subway doesn't go to most of the attractions in the city.
Chinatown? CNE? The Zoo? Science Centre? Forget about it! Even the frickin CN Tower is a 15 minute walk away from the nearest subway station!
People complain about the bus/streetcar service because they can't take the subway to get where they need to go!
Not surprising. Contrary to China, where dynastic cycles occur every few hundred years, the ruling aristocracies of European societies tend to be long-lived and in bred. It's really funny hearing Americans talk about how democratic they are when they are essentially ruled by a hereditary oligarchy - it's all just a performance.
I took a look at Taiwanese media after your post
Taiwanese media interviewing Wumao IRL