Hmm. Not really in favor of the death penalty, but if you gotta have it, this may be an appropriate time to use it. Talk about your betrayals of trust. This guy was a worm.
Bolton lies through his teeth; that’s good enough for Little Boy George – he’s in. How depressing. Be prepared for a whole new definition of the word “reform” as Bolton starts to dismantle the UN.
I dunno. It stinks of a peculiar combination of arrogance and desperation. Bolton isn’t going to have a helluva lot of credibility (not that Bush cares what anyone else thinks).
And you know Bolton is totally implicated in Treasongate.
No question, and he really did tell a bold-faced lie, the kind that typifies this administration. But it won;t matter. It’s the age of Bush. He’ll be rewarded for staying loyal.
I dunno…I’m wondering if the whole thing might be unraveling…it’s beginning to feel a lot like Nixon’s second term, except I think this is even bigger…
The Chinese administration as some in the West loves to find the source of all evils outside of the own country. As Aids, SARS, athletes foot and premature ejaculation also corruption is not homemade and the chinese ministry of education is taking action. Read more on my site (please give it a little traffic).
Shulan, I have tried repeatedly to access your site. Alas , Nada Amigo. So it is with a wilted heart that I have watched my Kreator videos over and over and over……
Don’t know what’s wrong. From here I can access it without problems (Nanny alarm perhaps). But here is the link for the original article from Sinhua: http://tinyurl.com/ae27y
Did you figure out what exactly is your problem with Latinas?
Trouble in Uzbekistan, as they tell us to get out. This is a good thing, and it demonstrates that in spite of our benefitting from their help, we won’t be silent when we see wanton abuse, torture and murder.
Uzbekistan’s ties with Washington have deteriorated after the Bush administration joined other Western nations in urging an international investigation into the suppression of a May uprising in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan.
Uzbek government troops fired on protesters in the city after militants seized a prison and a government building. Authorities denied that troops fired on unarmed civilians and said that 187 people died in the unrest; human rights groups put the figure as high as 750.
Uzbekistan’s president, Islam Karimov, who has ruled for 16 years and tolerates no dissent, has blamed the violence on Islamic militants.
He has rejected the demands for an outside inquiry, and, facing Western criticism, has found a strong support in Russia and China. Both of them are wary about the U.S. military presence in the strategic and resource-rich region.
I can’t praise Bush for this because he chose to dance with the devil. But at least he voiced some criticism, however grudghingly. The real criminals here are the other two nations who simply don’t care and are utterly unashamed about their courtship of demons.
China would rather prefer a corrupt, evil but cooperative (anti-east-turkestan) regime to a liberal, democratic but agressive (with the “help” of US to enclose China) one as neighbor.
Gordon, Bush chose to partner with this guy. I cannot praise him. Bush partnered with Pakistan, too, which is far more of a threat in terms of weapons proiliferation than Iraq could ever be. He talks a good talk about loving freedom, but when it comes down to it he doesn’t give a fuck. No, I have no praise for Bush.
Gordon:
My coleagues and my her at the “Berlin Center for Research on Blogging Liberuls” (BCRBL) all agree -after some serious Freud reading inspired by an English psychologist- on the fact that only women can have penis envy.
Practising… yeah, but then there is the problem with premature ejaculation. For that I blame the CCP. They poisoned my food when I was the last time in a Chinese resaurant. I’m sure.
Richard, I am not sure if you’d consider this as the milestone of current new left movement in China.
For the first time since 1980, Chinese government openly disappove the results of an key reform conducted by itself.
The market oriented medical reform has just been rated as a failure. If you read Chinese, go to this website or go to Chinadaily although it’s been tuned down a little there. New policy is on the way. There are some shocking evidences in the report. I wish I could translate it into english. But I am not ESWN or Jing….
Great, I didn’t know the 1st target of new left policy is medical reform…
Lin, I read about the failure of China’s current medical system; certainly this was no secret. I would like to see a translation of the report, but I know so many horror stories I can’t imagine being surprised.
My wife’s sister (40 years) old has terminal Liver cancer.We had to bribe the doctor 30,000 yuan to ensure that she would be treated well. No bribe, no pain meds etc…….I love this place.
Re pig-disease, this article appeared in today’s subscription-only scmp:
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WHO kept in the dark over outbreak
UN body wants Beijing to reveal crucial ‘day of onset’ details of pig-borne disease
CHAN SIU-SIN
The World Health Organisation will make a formal request to Beijing for information related to the pig-borne disease which has killed 34 people in Sichuan before deciding if it has been spreading, despite more cases of human infection being reported.
Bob Dietz, spokesman of the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila added that the “day of onset” was information crucial to decide if the disease, caused by the Streptococcus suis bacterium, was spreading across the mainland. “China is not doing that. We see this as an oversight. That’s not to say that it is not being transparent,” Mr Dietz said.
Although the ministry has provided daily updates of the outbreaks in Sichuan, the information has been patchy and inconsistent. It has not included cases in other provinces, such as the one case reported in Chaoan county, Guangdong.
The cities in Sichuan identified with infections are Ziyang, Neijiang, Chengdu, Mianyang, Zigong, Suining, Luzhou, Deyang and Yibin.
Sichuan governor Zhang Zhongwei told a meeting on Friday that the disease was “basically under control” in key affected areas and that the cases were localised and sporadic, according to the Chengdu Business Post.
While the WHO is yet to receive a reply from the mainland government on the offer of help, Mr Dietz said preventive educations messages were important to help control the disease.
“Rather than relying on the science of vaccine, which is important, we still see public health education as the most effective way to control the disease,” Mr Dietz said.
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China yesterday blasted Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, who said last week he was confident Japan’s bid to join the UN Security Council would succeed.
Japan has joined forces with Brazil, Germany and India to form a Group of Four (G4) that want permanent seats on an expanded council, a move that could be vetoed by China or other permanent members.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Mr Machimura’s remarks were “groundless and with ulterior motives”.
“The Chinese side has always believed the G4 framework resolution draft does not care about the interests of most developing countries, especially those of the small and medium-sized countries,” he said.
Re the UN, Japan contributes 19% of the $1.2 billion regular budget plus hundreds of millions of dollars more for peacekeeping and other agencies, not to mention the billions Japan doles out in aid–including to China.
The other four permanent members—Britain, France, Russia and China together pay LESS than Japan. The US is the UN’s biggest donor, paying a whopping 22% of the UN bugdet.
France contributes 6.4%, UK 5.54%, China 1.53 percent, and Russia 1.2 percent. The US, Japan, and Germany contribute a 51.3% of the total UN regular budget.
Errrrr….what right does China have to whinge about anything regarding the UN? The same country that greedily accepts billions of dollars in aid from Japan, the World Bank, UN etc but still finds the cash to launch manned-space rockets (WHOOSH!) and rapidly supply one of the largest militaries in the world—despite the face that it doesn’t have any immediate and huge external threats?
The arrogance is staggering.
Unfortunately, Kong Quan, not everyone is subject to China’s media censorship. We KNOW what’s going on.
if i am corrent, your “theory” advocates that those who contribute a big chunk of money to the UN should have a larger share of voice, right?
being the running dog of US, japan is forced to donate a lot of money to UN, but still can not convince its neighbours that it has the right to get a permanent seat.
talking about japanese aid to china, perhaps you forget to mention the japan didn’t pay the war compensation to china. god knows how much is that.
unfortunately martyn DOESN’T know what’s going on.
he intentionally or unintentionally omitted the most important part of why the japanese foreign minister’s comment pissed chinese off -
“Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said this Saturday in Beijing when asked to comment Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s recent remarks in New York that China will not oppose the G-4 proposal eventually. The G-4 includes Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. ”
i have only one word for the japanese foreign minister’s comment - *shameless* (anyway he is a japanese, what else you can expect)
Those who pay big chunks should have a bigger voice is not the point I’m making and you know it.
I’m saying that China–with just over a fifth of the world’s population, pays a minscule amount to the UN and contrubutes little to the peacekeeping operations and other agencies. In fact, it is on the receiving end to the tune of billions of a lot of UN aid, such as Aids prevention.
This, despite the fact that China can find the cash to put manned space rockets (WHOOSH!) into orbit—something that was done by other countries 30 years ago AND buy state-of-the-art weapons from it’s former communist partner for an army that does not face any serious external threats.
THEN, it has the arrogance to slap down Japan for even suggesting a UNSC permanent seat. Japan isn’t suggesting that they A-bomb China, it’s simply suggesting that they, along with 3 other countries should be on the UNSC.
That’s the point I’m making.
Re Japan’s war reparations to China. Billions and billions have been paid from Japan to China since 1972. It’s called development aid but we all know that it’s war reparations. Same for South Korea.
Also, most Chinese don’t know about it because their government choose not to tell them.
“Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said this Saturday in Beijing when asked to comment Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s recent remarks in New York that China will not oppose the G-4 proposal eventually. The G-4 includes Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. ”
Bingfeng, only you would see anything controversial in the above statement.
I think if the UN says “no” to Japan more than once, Japan should just say: “fine, then we’ll stop giving 20% of the UN budget, and fall in line with the average contributions.”
It’s absurd. Fine, have some “conditions” detailing how Japan has to admit wrong-doing in the Pacific during WWII - model it after Germany - and find a way to come up with an apology that is acceptable to both sides without fear of more war reparations, but Japan gives too much of its income to be denied much longer. It’s insane.
I have to say that I had to read that quote several times in context to figure out what it meant. Someone should take an English Journalism class over at that news agency.
Exactly Laowai, I read an AP article recently saying that Japan will likely face very strong public pressure to slash the amount of cash it hands over to the UN if it fails to get a UNSC seat.
As with our friend bingfeng’s comments above, talk to the average mainlander about this subject and you might as well talk to one of my three doggies because you get just as much sense from them.
“Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said this Saturday in Beijing when asked to comment Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s recent remarks in New York that China will not oppose the G-4 proposal eventually. The G-4 includes Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. ”
Bingfeng, only you would see anything controversial in the above statement.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 07:09 AM
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“China in June vowed to block any move to give permanent seats to the G4 … ”
“Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s recent remarks in New York that China will not oppose the G-4 proposal eventually”
what’s the good of japan’s getting a permanent seat? it can’t represent its asian neighbours, it can’t represent europe, it can’t represent south america or africa, it can NOT EVEN represent itself. even its master is pretty reluctant to let it in.
bingfeng, get back in the real world. Your anti-Japan prejudices are clouding your eyes.
Are you seriously saying that Machimura’s diplo-speak which I note used the word EVENTUALLY at the end is so controversial that it deserves an outburst from China’s Foreign Minstry?
It’s diplomatic talk! He’s saying that he hopes and expects that eventually China will be persuaded to support Japan’s application.
Don’t take the hopes of some Japanese political so literally, you are reading way too much into it.
“That’s right bingfeng, ignore the argument and concentrate on some other remark. China can never do anything wrong in your eyes can it? ”
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china has a lot of wrong-doings as richard’s many posts indicated. i did’t defend china in every thread richard put out which means i agree with his many accusations of china’s wrongdoings
it’s very childish every time you are going to lose your debate, i see comments like this:
- ok, you are always right, china is always right
- no matter what, we are free, you are not
- i am not going to talk with you, most chinese are brainwashed
bingfeng, talking to you about Japan really is like talking to a brick wall. You are so full of hatred. You don’t want Japan to have a UNSC seat because you want Japan to have nothing and you want China to remain Asia’s only UNSC representative. Therefoe, you scratch and scrape, duck and dive, bob and weave, twist and shout (!) for every half-baked excuse you can muster. It’s a pretty sad sight mate.
Ooops, I was referring to this: “That’s right bingfeng, ignore the argument and concentrate on some other remark. China can never do anything wrong in your eyes can it? “
I tell you something bingfeng mate, I look at you and I think that the patriotic education and the controlled madia have a lot to answer for, I really do.
The point isn’t representation. Russia and China can’t represent Asia and Eastern Europe any more than the US can represent Latin America. The question IS partly about money, since what we term “security” is irrevocably linked to economy, and it also has to do with balance. China gnashing at the bit to push down Japan while China rises needs to be balanced out. Similarly, Brazil should be in so that there is a strong Latin American country to stand up the American influence. Similarly, India is going to be a major player in the world, and should be let in. Similarly, Germany is a bastion of Anti-American sentiment in Europe, and can spearhead better balance in Europe on the security council.
Are you seriously saying that Machimura’s diplo-speak which I note used the word EVENTUALLY at the end is so controversial that it deserves an outburst from China’s Foreign Minstry?
It’s diplomatic talk! He’s saying that he hopes and expects that eventually China will be persuaded to support Japan’s application.
Don’t take the hopes of some Japanese political so literally, you are reading way too much into it.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 07:48 AM
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martyn, i have always a high expectation on a brit’s intelligence power, especially when it comes to international politics
japanese foreign minister is trying a ploy of misleading other countries to favor a forcible voting on the proposal and japan can take advantage from that
obviously the japanese foreign minister lies in front of the whole world by saying that china won’t oppose the g-4 proposal. but as long as it benefits the japanese, they don’t mind lying in front of the whole world. remember the pearl harbor?
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bingfeng, talking to you about Japan really is like talking to a brick wall. You are so full of hatred. You don’t want Japan to have a UNSC seat because you want Japan to have nothing and you want China to remain Asia’s only UNSC representative. Therefoe, you scratch and scrape, duck and dive, bob and weave, twist and shout (!) for every half-baked excuse you can muster. It’s a pretty sad sight mate.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 07:52 AM
I tell you something bingfeng mate, I look at you and I think that the patriotic education and the controlled madia have a lot to answer for, I really do.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 07:57 AM
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hehe, unfortunately i didn’t have a lot of chances to receive “patriotic education ” in china. speaking of japan, i had many experiences with japanese and japan, and in fact i like japanese history and literature very much, perhaps that’s the reason why we chinese know japanese better than you guys
C’mon man, China have the power to veto this G4 application and the Japanese foreign minister knows this. Even the US have spoken of a “broad consensus” being in place before the G4 application can be seriously consdiered.
On top of that, countries that aren’t as powerful in the world now as they were 60 years ago like Britain, France and Russia are keen to cling onto their exclusive UNSC seat.
China can’t really lose here.
No wonder Japan are talking about cutting their UN contribution. After all, you think China would happily pay almost a fifth of the entire regualar contribution to an international organisation and receive next to nothing in return?
China expects something in return for every copper coin it spends and it tries and expects to dominate bodies like ASEAN even though it isn’t even a full member.
Do you guys really hate Japanese people that much? It’s really scary.
Posted by Laowai 19790204 at July 31, 2005 07:59 AM
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laowai,
it’s called PRUDENCE
if you read japanese history and observe their tracks from 1950s till now, you will have the same prudence as i do
i have been to japan and my family has many japanese friends and had a lot of experiences with japanese like exchanging foods with our japanese neighbors in festivals and drinking tea with japanese friends in laoshe teahouse in beijing, there is no reason for me to hate japanese people
track record should not be the sole indicator of future performance, but it is one of the indicators, and in japan’s case, it’s an important one because japan as a nation performs very consistently
bingfeng writes:
“hehe, unfortunately i didn’t have a lot of chances to receive “patriotic education ” in china”
Then I apologise for that remark.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 08:13 AM
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no need to apologize, it’s one of the cliches that any chinese who has a negative opinion on japan must have received many “patriotic education” in china.
Bingfeng … “prudence” is it? OK then, I’d say that prudence dictates that Korea, Vietnam, India, Burma, the central Asian republics, and probably a few more states besides ought to expect Chinese attacks, and do their damnest to join any alliance that’ll have them in opposing China. Prudence says Japan is dangerous? Ask the Vietnamese if they think the Chinese or the Japanese are more dangerous …
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i have been to japan and my family has many japanese friends and had a lot of experiences with japanese like exchanging foods with our japanese neighbors in festivals and drinking tea with japanese friends in laoshe teahouse in beijing, there is no reason for me to hate japanese people
Ask the Vietnamese if they think the Chinese or the Japanese are more dangerous …
Posted by Filthy Stinking No.9 at July 31, 2005 08:31 AM
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as a “history expert”, you should know who is the most dangerous threat to china
certainly you have your logic - to vietnamese, japan is less dangerous than chian, so chinese preduence for japan is unnecessary. congratulations to your “theory”
no real communication about these topics at all, whenever i start to ask questions of this kind, they become silent, or just nod nod nod nod, “hayi, hayi, hayi, hayi ” or more vaguely “sodesne”
so i didn’t tell them i keep a blog like this, but i am very sure that they know i hold a very strong sentment against right-wing japanese
and here is a very interesting story i experienced with a japanese girl
i kept up a correspondence with a japanese girl who once studied in china for almost one year, and when she went back japan for vacation, i sent mails to her home, then guess what, she suddently disappeared.
very probably her family is not happy with her socializing with chinese asked her not writing to me anymore.
BF, I don’t really have any response to your remarks except to say that you sound like the Hawks in my country, talking about China/Russia/Communists/Cuba/Democrats. Time to whip out the Nazis - the Nazis brought up Jewish “history” as proof of their predation upon the noble Aryan race… and that incident sure as hell wasn’t worth it, and didn’t bring any good to the world. I guess my point is that there’s a difference between reasonable caution - i.e. making damn sure that a country’s rhetoric doesn’t pierce through to unmitigated violence - and unreasonable hate - i.e. adopting a “China Containment Policy” that many senators would have us do, or try by any means necessary to oppress and demolish the Japanese economy and their flourishing and happiness.
I guess my other point, BF, is that you don’t come off as being anti-right wing Japanese. You come off as being anti-japanese, and virulently, hatefully so.
I feel like this is all going to lead to a big violent disaster, but when it does, will China admit its future wrongdoing like Germany? Or be like what they say the Japanese are?
Of course, looking at the link in the post below reminds me that there as much seething hate on the other side of the Japanese/Chinese sea. Someone better put a fricking cap on it and figure out how to work it out diplomatically otherwise it’s going to be WWIII, and I, for one, don’t want that to happen to China or Japan, having quite a bit of admiration and love for both countries.
Hey, how’s everybody doing? Richard, you’re going back to Asia! Fabulous! I’m lost in the Balkans! Internet not cheap, missing China already. Can only comment in telegraph form. stop.
Hope to be back to blogging in a couple of weeks. And a quick question… any of you guys know anybody over at CCTV9? I’d like to interview somebody who currently (not Joan Maltese, I’ve read her article) works for China’s international foreign language TV operations.
Back to the top part of this thread of comments about penis envy and all. Just back from a weekend in Xichang, Sichuan, home of the launch pad for China’s space rockets.
Yesterday I saw the damnedest thing ever in my life. I am not drawing any conclusions just yet and seek other opinions, especial from the Chinese friends here. Anyway, I was shopping at a supermarket in Xichang and saw this guy walk up to the back of a Chinese woman and rub or appear to rub his crotch against her. No reaction from the actually young woman. Then the guy again walks up to the back of a woman (could be the same one) and definitely rub his crotch on her buttocks. No reaction for the girl. While was was scratching my head, figuratively, the girl looks at me looking at her. I could not see any embarrassment or anger. The guy has meanwhile wandered off. The the hell?
The weekend was the celebration of the Torch Festival for a national minority (which includes the opportunity for mating by the minority’s young people.) Could this be some weird or psycho part of their mating rituals?
Any thoughts, and I expect the usual joke around, but I am curious if it is one man’s bang or some thing related to the mating game.
Money, Power, Greedy leaders, what else left in the expansion of UNSC?
If there is nothing else, then this game will be naturally played according to the rules based upon the power, money and strategies of leaders from various nations. Nobody should be blamed as long as the rules obeyed.
If you blame China, then why don’t you think a little more about the motives of “G4″? What are they seeking?
as if expansion of UNSC would do any good to UN…..sorry I don’t think so.
how your chinese wife looks at you after she reads your blog?
My wife doesn’t like some of the things I say sometimes, but unlike you, she also admits that I wouldn’t be able to say such things if they weren’t true.
I see you didn’t answer my question, do your Japanese friends read your blog?
Your comments kind of remind me of the racist redneck bastards in the US. They would always say something like..Oh I’m not racist, I know one or two black people. argghh..
i have only one word for the japanese foreign minister’s comment - *shameless* (anyway he is a japanese, what else you can expect)
And you say you’re not racist and don’t hate the Japanese…heh!
Posted by Gordon at July 31, 2005 07:40 PM
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Gordon answers the question for Bingfeng:
“I wouldn’t be able to say such things if they weren’t true”
My wife doesn’t like some of the things I say sometimes, but unlike you, she also admits that I wouldn’t be able to say such things if they weren’t true.
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honest answer, but if one loves another enough, he will avoid saying such things that make her unhappy
First, my impressions of Japan based on Kyoto and Hiroshima.
For one thing, the country is immaculately clean. No spitting, no cigarette butts littering the ground, no trash lying about and no overwhelming stenches of vomit, urine/sewage or rotting garbage. The country of Japan seems to have a very pleasant environment and atmosphere compared to other countries I have visited.
Also, it was quite quiet. Even on the trains, customers were told to put their cells on vibrate and if they received a call or had to make one, they went into the space between cars to have their conversations. So in a way, it was a very peaceful ride for everyone. Both my friend and I found such courtesy refreshing and relaxing.
I personally think the PRC shouldn’t even be on the Security Council. It isn’t even this (so-called) government’s seat.
Japan contributes a lot to the UN. It is also a government that is representative of the people rather than a brutal ruling clique doing all it can to hold on to its corrupt power.
So I would recommend that Japan takes China’s seat.
I assume some peole are going to be opposed to that idea. But really, what does China bring to the UN?
I personally think the PRC shouldn’t even be on the Security Council. It isn’t even this (so-called) government’s seat.
Japan contributes a lot to the UN. It is also a government that is representative of the people rather than a brutal ruling clique doing all it can to hold on to its corrupt power.
So I would recommend that Japan takes China’s seat.
I assume some peole are going to be opposed to that idea. But really, what does China bring to the UN?
I have a better idea for reforming the UN Security Council. How about if NO Asian nation has a permanent seat? Then China and Japan will be equal.
I think China’s seat should be taken by Canada. All of the best Chinese people are in Canada anyway.
Well, not to hijack this thread away from the priority issue of Japanese perfidy, but I need some practical help. Can anyone tell me where to get a GOOD haircut ANYwhere in China?
I keep procrastinating, because I’ve never gotten a decent haircut in China. Haven’t had a haircut for over a year. Yesterday I tried, in the center of a major city here - where all the posh shops are - and a hairstylist showed me the rates written in Chinglish:
“1. Hair for Foreigner Group 288 Yuan,
2. Hair for Foreign Teacher Group 188 Yuan.”
What the hell is “Hair for Foreigner Group?”
I walked out of the place, didn’t want to risk getting a “Foreigner Group” treatment. It sounded like some kind of group sex.
Help me out. How can I find a REAL hairstylist in China?
high middle school girls put mini ads in phone booth to sell their used pants or “assist socializing”
hmm…as opposed to Chinese girls that are willing to sleep their teachers for better grades?
salary men in nice suits pissed in streets after drinking a few glasses of beer or sakai
That happens in the alley ways of just about every country. However, unlike China, the streets don’t smell like amonia laced cesspools and you don’t find public toilets by sniffing them out.
I see Chinese men piss outside on the walls all the time. Sometimes it’s because the toilets are just too filthy and other times because it’s part of a cultural habit which is fine, I mean, it’s your country..not mine.
The one that got me though, is awhile back some Chinese photographer took a picture of a foreigner pissing in a river and he published it in a Chengdu newspaper to paint a picture that foreigners do not respect China. Yet, I see Chinese people pissing all over the place in public. Don’t even get me started on the little children that walk down the sidewalk and shit and piss in the middle of it whenever the feel the need to go.
China is a dirty third-world country. I hate to say it, but that’s the truth.
I mean for god sakes, you have people digging up dead, disease infested pigs and selling them to markets.
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By richard
The Chinese schoolteacher who raped 23 students has been sentenced to death.
July 29, 2005 @ 7:27 pm | Comment
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By Will
Hmm. Not really in favor of the death penalty, but if you gotta have it, this may be an appropriate time to use it. Talk about your betrayals of trust. This guy was a worm.
July 29, 2005 @ 8:18 pm | Comment
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By richard
Agree, I hate the death penalty but there are plenty of times, like this, where I can’t get too upset about it.
Looks like the post above has become the open thread for the night.
July 29, 2005 @ 9:59 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
It must be in the water. Ex-official
sentenced to death for corruption
July 29, 2005 @ 10:24 pm | Comment
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By Other Lisa
Yeah, it’s one of those, “Oh, darn, because I’m really against the death penalty” death penalty cases, for me.
July 29, 2005 @ 11:55 pm | Comment
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By richard
Bolton lies through his teeth; that’s good enough for Little Boy George – he’s in. How depressing. Be prepared for a whole new definition of the word “reform” as Bolton starts to dismantle the UN.
July 29, 2005 @ 11:59 pm | Comment
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By Other Lisa
I dunno. It stinks of a peculiar combination of arrogance and desperation. Bolton isn’t going to have a helluva lot of credibility (not that Bush cares what anyone else thinks).
And you know Bolton is totally implicated in Treasongate.
July 30, 2005 @ 12:06 am | Comment
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By richard
No question, and he really did tell a bold-faced lie, the kind that typifies this administration. But it won;t matter. It’s the age of Bush. He’ll be rewarded for staying loyal.
July 30, 2005 @ 12:10 am | Comment
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By Other Lisa
I dunno…I’m wondering if the whole thing might be unraveling…it’s beginning to feel a lot like Nixon’s second term, except I think this is even bigger…
July 30, 2005 @ 12:14 am | Comment
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By richard
Only the prosecutor knows for sure…October could be one hell of a month.
July 30, 2005 @ 12:16 am | Comment
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By Gordon
Senate Majority Leader breaks ranks with the President.
July 30, 2005 @ 8:00 am | Comment
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By Xena Phobia
Senate Majority Leader Breaks Gas with the President So what else is new?
July 30, 2005 @ 8:18 am | Comment
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By shulan
The Chinese administration as some in the West loves to find the source of all evils outside of the own country. As Aids, SARS, athletes foot and premature ejaculation also corruption is not homemade and the chinese ministry of education is taking action. Read more on my site (please give it a little traffic).
July 30, 2005 @ 9:48 am | Comment
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By Xena Phobia
Shulan, I have tried repeatedly to access your site. Alas , Nada Amigo. So it is with a wilted heart that I have watched my Kreator videos over and over and over……
July 30, 2005 @ 10:18 am | Comment
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By Xena Phobia
I only prematurely ejaculate with Latinas.
July 30, 2005 @ 10:20 am | Comment
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By shulan
Don’t know what’s wrong. From here I can access it without problems (Nanny alarm perhaps). But here is the link for the original article from Sinhua:
http://tinyurl.com/ae27y
Did you figure out what exactly is your problem with Latinas?
July 30, 2005 @ 10:46 am | Comment
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By Gordon
Xena,
It must be all those porn programs blocking your access.
July 30, 2005 @ 10:50 am | Comment
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By Xena Phobia
I just assume (perhaps wrongly) that they’re all Vanessa Del Rio.
July 30, 2005 @ 10:51 am | Comment
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By richard
Trouble in Uzbekistan, as they tell us to get out. This is a good thing, and it demonstrates that in spite of our benefitting from their help, we won’t be silent when we see wanton abuse, torture and murder.
I can’t praise Bush for this because he chose to dance with the devil. But at least he voiced some criticism, however grudghingly. The real criminals here are the other two nations who simply don’t care and are utterly unashamed about their courtship of demons.
July 30, 2005 @ 11:08 am | Comment
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By Bing
Richard
China would rather prefer a corrupt, evil but cooperative (anti-east-turkestan) regime to a liberal, democratic but agressive (with the “help” of US to enclose China) one as neighbor.
July 30, 2005 @ 11:16 am | Comment
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By Gordon
Of course you couldn’t. It’s against libreral law to give credit where credit is due when it applies to the Bush Administration.
Face it Richard, you have penis envy of Bush. It’s okay.
July 30, 2005 @ 11:20 am | Comment
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By richard
Gordon, Bush chose to partner with this guy. I cannot praise him. Bush partnered with Pakistan, too, which is far more of a threat in terms of weapons proiliferation than Iraq could ever be. He talks a good talk about loving freedom, but when it comes down to it he doesn’t give a fuck. No, I have no praise for Bush.
July 30, 2005 @ 11:23 am | Comment
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By shulan
Gordon:
My coleagues and my her at the “Berlin Center for Research on Blogging Liberuls” (BCRBL) all agree -after some serious Freud reading inspired by an English psychologist- on the fact that only women can have penis envy.
July 30, 2005 @ 11:31 am | Comment
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By Bing
Shulan
You are a bit obssessed with reproductive organs sometimes, though not necessarily a bad thing, for …
July 30, 2005 @ 11:37 am | Comment
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By shulan
Yeah my friends also told I have changed in recent time. I blame Freud.
July 30, 2005 @ 11:40 am | Comment
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By Bing
Freud, you mean you read too much?
If so, a good advice might be to practise more.
I wish I could.
July 30, 2005 @ 11:43 am | Comment
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By shulan
Practising… yeah, but then there is the problem with premature ejaculation. For that I blame the CCP. They poisoned my food when I was the last time in a Chinese resaurant. I’m sure.
July 30, 2005 @ 12:01 pm | Comment
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By Bing
What a surpise!
I thought you were a girl.
Sorry about that. It’s your name partly to blame.
July 30, 2005 @ 12:04 pm | Comment
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By shulan
Yeah my name seems a little confusing. I mean this shulan: 树懒.
July 30, 2005 @ 12:09 pm | Comment
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By Bing
Not “ÊçÀ¼”?!
You cheated on me! You…
Back up
July 30, 2005 @ 12:20 pm | Comment
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By Bing
US asked to leave.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4731411.stm
July 30, 2005 @ 2:22 pm | Comment
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By richard
Notice it was ther Uzbeks who called it off, not our fearless codpiece commander.
July 30, 2005 @ 2:30 pm | Comment
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By Bing
I’m watching Rambo III on BBC Three.
What a irony!
July 30, 2005 @ 4:14 pm | Comment
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By Bing
Sorry, What an irony!
July 30, 2005 @ 4:14 pm | Comment
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By Other Lisa
And Truly Bad Cinema to boot!
July 30, 2005 @ 4:49 pm | Comment
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By lin
Richard, I am not sure if you’d consider this as the milestone of current new left movement in China.
For the first time since 1980, Chinese government openly disappove the results of an key reform conducted by itself.
The market oriented medical reform has just been rated as a failure. If you read Chinese, go to this website or go to Chinadaily although it’s been tuned down a little there. New policy is on the way. There are some shocking evidences in the report. I wish I could translate it into english. But I am not ESWN or Jing….
Great, I didn’t know the 1st target of new left policy is medical reform…
July 30, 2005 @ 5:17 pm | Comment
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By shulan
What’s this?
Blue light.
What’s it doin?
It’s shining blue.
July 30, 2005 @ 6:06 pm | Comment
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By Bing
What’s that all about?
I keep frustrated by here and there riddles.
Not a bad thing maybe. You don’t know and you don’t get hurt.
July 30, 2005 @ 6:12 pm | Comment
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By Bing
A bedtime call. 01:45.
July 30, 2005 @ 6:45 pm | Comment
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By richard
Lin, I read about the failure of China’s current medical system; certainly this was no secret. I would like to see a translation of the report, but I know so many horror stories I can’t imagine being surprised.
July 30, 2005 @ 8:55 pm | Comment
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By Xena Phobia
My wife’s sister (40 years) old has terminal Liver cancer.We had to bribe the doctor 30,000 yuan to ensure that she would be treated well. No bribe, no pain meds etc…….I love this place.
July 30, 2005 @ 9:18 pm | Comment
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By richard
How sick can you get - charging an 8-year-old boy with sexual misconduct!? Does an 8-year-old even know what sex is?
July 30, 2005 @ 10:36 pm | Comment
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By Xena Phobia
Richard, What are your thought’s on Condoleeza Rice?
July 31, 2005 @ 12:00 am | Comment
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By Bing
Richard, don’t underestimate an 8-year-old.
He might well know what sex is, but not what crime is.
July 31, 2005 @ 2:54 am | Comment
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By Bing
I want to believe in God.
I just haven’t got that spark, which in a missionary’s words all of a sudden made him feel his last 37 years without god was a life without soul.
July 31, 2005 @ 3:25 am | Comment
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By Martyn
Re pig-disease, this article appeared in today’s subscription-only scmp:
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WHO kept in the dark over outbreak
UN body wants Beijing to reveal crucial ‘day of onset’ details of pig-borne disease
CHAN SIU-SIN
The World Health Organisation will make a formal request to Beijing for information related to the pig-borne disease which has killed 34 people in Sichuan before deciding if it has been spreading, despite more cases of human infection being reported.
Bob Dietz, spokesman of the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila added that the “day of onset” was information crucial to decide if the disease, caused by the Streptococcus suis bacterium, was spreading across the mainland. “China is not doing that. We see this as an oversight. That’s not to say that it is not being transparent,” Mr Dietz said.
Although the ministry has provided daily updates of the outbreaks in Sichuan, the information has been patchy and inconsistent. It has not included cases in other provinces, such as the one case reported in Chaoan county, Guangdong.
The cities in Sichuan identified with infections are Ziyang, Neijiang, Chengdu, Mianyang, Zigong, Suining, Luzhou, Deyang and Yibin.
Sichuan governor Zhang Zhongwei told a meeting on Friday that the disease was “basically under control” in key affected areas and that the cases were localised and sporadic, according to the Chengdu Business Post.
While the WHO is yet to receive a reply from the mainland government on the offer of help, Mr Dietz said preventive educations messages were important to help control the disease.
“Rather than relying on the science of vaccine, which is important, we still see public health education as the most effective way to control the disease,” Mr Dietz said.
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July 31, 2005 @ 3:52 am | Comment
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By Martyn
Also from SCMP:
Human infections in Sichuan: 174
Deaths: 34
Patients in critical condition: 28
Patients recovered: 12
July 31, 2005 @ 3:52 am | Comment
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By Bing
Who can recomend some Japanese English blogs?
Thanks in advance.
July 31, 2005 @ 4:03 am | Comment
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By shulan
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B: Of course.
A: Are you willing to entertain a few concepts?
B: I am always open to suggestions.
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A: But how do you KNOW you exist?
B: It is intuitively obvious.
A: Intuition is no proof! What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
B: Hmmm.. Well� I think, therefore I am.
A: That¹s good! That¹s very good� but how do you know that anything else exists?
B: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me.
A: Ah, right.
B: This is fun!
July 31, 2005 @ 5:21 am | Comment
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By Martyn
Today’s scmp: (couldn’t make this up)
Japanese minister rapped over UN bid
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
China yesterday blasted Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, who said last week he was confident Japan’s bid to join the UN Security Council would succeed.
Japan has joined forces with Brazil, Germany and India to form a Group of Four (G4) that want permanent seats on an expanded council, a move that could be vetoed by China or other permanent members.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said Mr Machimura’s remarks were “groundless and with ulterior motives”.
“The Chinese side has always believed the G4 framework resolution draft does not care about the interests of most developing countries, especially those of the small and medium-sized countries,” he said.
July 31, 2005 @ 6:23 am | Comment
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By Martyn
Re the UN, Japan contributes 19% of the $1.2 billion regular budget plus hundreds of millions of dollars more for peacekeeping and other agencies, not to mention the billions Japan doles out in aid–including to China.
The other four permanent members—Britain, France, Russia and China together pay LESS than Japan. The US is the UN’s biggest donor, paying a whopping 22% of the UN bugdet.
France contributes 6.4%, UK 5.54%, China 1.53 percent, and Russia 1.2 percent. The US, Japan, and Germany contribute a 51.3% of the total UN regular budget.
Errrrr….what right does China have to whinge about anything regarding the UN? The same country that greedily accepts billions of dollars in aid from Japan, the World Bank, UN etc but still finds the cash to launch manned-space rockets (WHOOSH!) and rapidly supply one of the largest militaries in the world—despite the face that it doesn’t have any immediate and huge external threats?
The arrogance is staggering.
Unfortunately, Kong Quan, not everyone is subject to China’s media censorship. We KNOW what’s going on.
July 31, 2005 @ 6:34 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
martyn,
if i am corrent, your “theory” advocates that those who contribute a big chunk of money to the UN should have a larger share of voice, right?
being the running dog of US, japan is forced to donate a lot of money to UN, but still can not convince its neighbours that it has the right to get a permanent seat.
talking about japanese aid to china, perhaps you forget to mention the japan didn’t pay the war compensation to china. god knows how much is that.
The arrogance is staggering.
July 31, 2005 @ 6:50 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
“We KNOW what’s going on.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 06:34 AM ”
————
unfortunately martyn DOESN’T know what’s going on.
he intentionally or unintentionally omitted the most important part of why the japanese foreign minister’s comment pissed chinese off -
“Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said this Saturday in Beijing when asked to comment Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s recent remarks in New York that China will not oppose the G-4 proposal eventually. The G-4 includes Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. ”
i have only one word for the japanese foreign minister’s comment - *shameless* (anyway he is a japanese, what else you can expect)
July 31, 2005 @ 7:02 am | Comment
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By Anonymous
Unfortunately, Kong Quan, not everyone is subject to China’s media censorship. We KNOW what’s going on.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 06:34 AM
————
LOL
media censorship? who?
July 31, 2005 @ 7:07 am | Comment
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By Martyn
Those who pay big chunks should have a bigger voice is not the point I’m making and you know it.
I’m saying that China–with just over a fifth of the world’s population, pays a minscule amount to the UN and contrubutes little to the peacekeeping operations and other agencies. In fact, it is on the receiving end to the tune of billions of a lot of UN aid, such as Aids prevention.
This, despite the fact that China can find the cash to put manned space rockets (WHOOSH!) into orbit—something that was done by other countries 30 years ago AND buy state-of-the-art weapons from it’s former communist partner for an army that does not face any serious external threats.
THEN, it has the arrogance to slap down Japan for even suggesting a UNSC permanent seat. Japan isn’t suggesting that they A-bomb China, it’s simply suggesting that they, along with 3 other countries should be on the UNSC.
That’s the point I’m making.
Re Japan’s war reparations to China. Billions and billions have been paid from Japan to China since 1972. It’s called development aid but we all know that it’s war reparations. Same for South Korea.
Also, most Chinese don’t know about it because their government choose not to tell them.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:07 am | Comment
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By Martyn
“Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said this Saturday in Beijing when asked to comment Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s recent remarks in New York that China will not oppose the G-4 proposal eventually. The G-4 includes Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. ”
Bingfeng, only you would see anything controversial in the above statement.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:09 am | Comment
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By Laowai 19790204
I think if the UN says “no” to Japan more than once, Japan should just say: “fine, then we’ll stop giving 20% of the UN budget, and fall in line with the average contributions.”
It’s absurd. Fine, have some “conditions” detailing how Japan has to admit wrong-doing in the Pacific during WWII - model it after Germany - and find a way to come up with an apology that is acceptable to both sides without fear of more war reparations, but Japan gives too much of its income to be denied much longer. It’s insane.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:19 am | Comment
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By Laowai 19790204
I have to say that I had to read that quote several times in context to figure out what it meant. Someone should take an English Journalism class over at that news agency.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:24 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
“…buy state-of-the-art weapons from it’s former communist partner for an army that does not face any serious external threats”
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this is the most stupid comment i read in many years time.
US military budget is larger than those of the following 15 countries altogether and you believe US faces a serious external threat?
July 31, 2005 @ 7:36 am | Comment
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By Martyn
Exactly Laowai, I read an AP article recently saying that Japan will likely face very strong public pressure to slash the amount of cash it hands over to the UN if it fails to get a UNSC seat.
As with our friend bingfeng’s comments above, talk to the average mainlander about this subject and you might as well talk to one of my three doggies because you get just as much sense from them.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:37 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
“Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan said this Saturday in Beijing when asked to comment Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s recent remarks in New York that China will not oppose the G-4 proposal eventually. The G-4 includes Brazil, Germany, India and Japan. ”
Bingfeng, only you would see anything controversial in the above statement.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 07:09 AM
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“China in June vowed to block any move to give permanent seats to the G4 … ”
“Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura’s recent remarks in New York that China will not oppose the G-4 proposal eventually”
what’s wrong with your eyes, martyn?
you just read what you want to read, right?
July 31, 2005 @ 7:39 am | Comment
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By Martyn
That’s right bingfeng, ignore the argument and concentrate on some other remark. China can never do anything wrong in your eyes can it?
Let’s ignore the ins-and-outs of Japan’s UNSC place and talk about nasty America. Nice move but you’re on your own.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:41 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
what’s the good of japan’s getting a permanent seat? it can’t represent its asian neighbours, it can’t represent europe, it can’t represent south america or africa, it can NOT EVEN represent itself. even its master is pretty reluctant to let it in.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:45 am | Comment
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By Martyn
bingfeng, get back in the real world. Your anti-Japan prejudices are clouding your eyes.
Are you seriously saying that Machimura’s diplo-speak which I note used the word EVENTUALLY at the end is so controversial that it deserves an outburst from China’s Foreign Minstry?
It’s diplomatic talk! He’s saying that he hopes and expects that eventually China will be persuaded to support Japan’s application.
Don’t take the hopes of some Japanese political so literally, you are reading way too much into it.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:48 am | Comment
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By Bing
Japan’s UNSC place? No way.
Not until China’s strong enough to counter Japan and US in all aspects in Asia.
And when it comes to China’s foreign policy, I just hope it as hawkish as possilbe, not for aggression but defense.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:49 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
“That’s right bingfeng, ignore the argument and concentrate on some other remark. China can never do anything wrong in your eyes can it? ”
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china has a lot of wrong-doings as richard’s many posts indicated. i did’t defend china in every thread richard put out which means i agree with his many accusations of china’s wrongdoings
it’s very childish every time you are going to lose your debate, i see comments like this:
- ok, you are always right, china is always right
- no matter what, we are free, you are not
- i am not going to talk with you, most chinese are brainwashed
July 31, 2005 @ 7:50 am | Comment
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By Martyn
bingfeng, talking to you about Japan really is like talking to a brick wall. You are so full of hatred. You don’t want Japan to have a UNSC seat because you want Japan to have nothing and you want China to remain Asia’s only UNSC representative. Therefoe, you scratch and scrape, duck and dive, bob and weave, twist and shout (!) for every half-baked excuse you can muster. It’s a pretty sad sight mate.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:52 am | Comment
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By Bing
“You don’t want Japan to have a UNSC seat because you want Japan to have nothing and you want China to remain Asia’s only UNSC representative.”
Totally agree. That’s what I want to. And many other Chinese and Korean.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:54 am | Comment
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By Martyn
Great technique bingfeng, pick out one sentence and call me childish. Well done mate.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:55 am | Comment
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By Martyn
Ooops, I was referring to this: “That’s right bingfeng, ignore the argument and concentrate on some other remark. China can never do anything wrong in your eyes can it? “
July 31, 2005 @ 7:55 am | Comment
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By Martyn
I tell you something bingfeng mate, I look at you and I think that the patriotic education and the controlled madia have a lot to answer for, I really do.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:57 am | Comment
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By Laowai 19790204
The point isn’t representation. Russia and China can’t represent Asia and Eastern Europe any more than the US can represent Latin America. The question IS partly about money, since what we term “security” is irrevocably linked to economy, and it also has to do with balance. China gnashing at the bit to push down Japan while China rises needs to be balanced out. Similarly, Brazil should be in so that there is a strong Latin American country to stand up the American influence. Similarly, India is going to be a major player in the world, and should be let in. Similarly, Germany is a bastion of Anti-American sentiment in Europe, and can spearhead better balance in Europe on the security council.
It is absolutely not about representation.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:57 am | Comment
73
By Anonymous
Are you seriously saying that Machimura’s diplo-speak which I note used the word EVENTUALLY at the end is so controversial that it deserves an outburst from China’s Foreign Minstry?
It’s diplomatic talk! He’s saying that he hopes and expects that eventually China will be persuaded to support Japan’s application.
Don’t take the hopes of some Japanese political so literally, you are reading way too much into it.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 07:48 AM
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martyn, i have always a high expectation on a brit’s intelligence power, especially when it comes to international politics
japanese foreign minister is trying a ploy of misleading other countries to favor a forcible voting on the proposal and japan can take advantage from that
obviously the japanese foreign minister lies in front of the whole world by saying that china won’t oppose the g-4 proposal. but as long as it benefits the japanese, they don’t mind lying in front of the whole world. remember the pearl harbor?
i don’t believe you can’t get that.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:59 am | Comment
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By Laowai 19790204
Do you guys really hate Japanese people that much? It’s really scary.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:59 am | Comment
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By shulan
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B: To explode, of course!
A: And you can only do it once, right?
B: That is correct!
A: And you wouldn¹t want to explode on the basis of false data, would you?
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A: Well then, you¹ve already admitted that you have no real proof of the existence of the outside universe.
B: Yeah, weeellll�.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:06 am | Comment
76
By bingfeng
bingfeng, talking to you about Japan really is like talking to a brick wall. You are so full of hatred. You don’t want Japan to have a UNSC seat because you want Japan to have nothing and you want China to remain Asia’s only UNSC representative. Therefoe, you scratch and scrape, duck and dive, bob and weave, twist and shout (!) for every half-baked excuse you can muster. It’s a pretty sad sight mate.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 07:52 AM
I tell you something bingfeng mate, I look at you and I think that the patriotic education and the controlled madia have a lot to answer for, I really do.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 07:57 AM
————
hehe, unfortunately i didn’t have a lot of chances to receive “patriotic education ” in china. speaking of japan, i had many experiences with japanese and japan, and in fact i like japanese history and literature very much, perhaps that’s the reason why we chinese know japanese better than you guys
July 31, 2005 @ 8:07 am | Comment
77
By Bing
Japan / Russia, great countries, great threats and strategic enemies to China.
In terms of the idea of balance, I don’t like that, nor do US, Japan, Russia or others.
Everyone wants others to be balanced but not itself.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:08 am | Comment
78
By Martyn
bingfeng
C’mon man, China have the power to veto this G4 application and the Japanese foreign minister knows this. Even the US have spoken of a “broad consensus” being in place before the G4 application can be seriously consdiered.
On top of that, countries that aren’t as powerful in the world now as they were 60 years ago like Britain, France and Russia are keen to cling onto their exclusive UNSC seat.
China can’t really lose here.
No wonder Japan are talking about cutting their UN contribution. After all, you think China would happily pay almost a fifth of the entire regualar contribution to an international organisation and receive next to nothing in return?
China expects something in return for every copper coin it spends and it tries and expects to dominate bodies like ASEAN even though it isn’t even a full member.
That’s the long and short of it.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:11 am | Comment
79
By Martyn
bingfeng writes:
“hehe, unfortunately i didn’t have a lot of chances to receive “patriotic education ” in china”
Then I apologise for that remark.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:13 am | Comment
80
By bingfeng
Do you guys really hate Japanese people that much? It’s really scary.
Posted by Laowai 19790204 at July 31, 2005 07:59 AM
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laowai,
it’s called PRUDENCE
if you read japanese history and observe their tracks from 1950s till now, you will have the same prudence as i do
i have been to japan and my family has many japanese friends and had a lot of experiences with japanese like exchanging foods with our japanese neighbors in festivals and drinking tea with japanese friends in laoshe teahouse in beijing, there is no reason for me to hate japanese people
July 31, 2005 @ 8:14 am | Comment
81
By bingfeng
track record should not be the sole indicator of future performance, but it is one of the indicators, and in japan’s case, it’s an important one because japan as a nation performs very consistently
July 31, 2005 @ 8:18 am | Comment
82
By bingfeng
bingfeng writes:
“hehe, unfortunately i didn’t have a lot of chances to receive “patriotic education ” in china”
Then I apologise for that remark.
Posted by Martyn at July 31, 2005 08:13 AM
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no need to apologize, it’s one of the cliches that any chinese who has a negative opinion on japan must have received many “patriotic education” in china.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:20 am | Comment
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By Filthy Stinking No.9
Bingfeng … “prudence” is it? OK then, I’d say that prudence dictates that Korea, Vietnam, India, Burma, the central Asian republics, and probably a few more states besides ought to expect Chinese attacks, and do their damnest to join any alliance that’ll have them in opposing China. Prudence says Japan is dangerous? Ask the Vietnamese if they think the Chinese or the Japanese are more dangerous …
July 31, 2005 @ 8:31 am | Comment
84
By shulan
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[Bomb explodes.]
July 31, 2005 @ 8:33 am | Comment
85
By Gordon
Do your Japanese friends read your blog?
July 31, 2005 @ 8:39 am | Comment
86
By bingfeng
Ask the Vietnamese if they think the Chinese or the Japanese are more dangerous …
Posted by Filthy Stinking No.9 at July 31, 2005 08:31 AM
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as a “history expert”, you should know who is the most dangerous threat to china
certainly you have your logic - to vietnamese, japan is less dangerous than chian, so chinese preduence for japan is unnecessary. congratulations to your “theory”
July 31, 2005 @ 8:40 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
Do your Japanese friends read your blog?
Posted by Gordon at July 31, 2005 08:39 AM
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no real communication about these topics at all, whenever i start to ask questions of this kind, they become silent, or just nod nod nod nod, “hayi, hayi, hayi, hayi ” or more vaguely “sodesne”
so i didn’t tell them i keep a blog like this, but i am very sure that they know i hold a very strong sentment against right-wing japanese
July 31, 2005 @ 8:46 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
and here is a very interesting story i experienced with a japanese girl
i kept up a correspondence with a japanese girl who once studied in china for almost one year, and when she went back japan for vacation, i sent mails to her home, then guess what, she suddently disappeared.
very probably her family is not happy with her socializing with chinese asked her not writing to me anymore.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:54 am | Comment
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By bingfeng
Do your Japanese friends read your blog?
Posted by Gordon at July 31, 2005 08:39 AM
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a sincere question - how your chinese wife looks at you after she reads your blog?
July 31, 2005 @ 8:57 am | Comment
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By Laowai 19790204
BF, I don’t really have any response to your remarks except to say that you sound like the Hawks in my country, talking about China/Russia/Communists/Cuba/Democrats. Time to whip out the Nazis - the Nazis brought up Jewish “history” as proof of their predation upon the noble Aryan race… and that incident sure as hell wasn’t worth it, and didn’t bring any good to the world. I guess my point is that there’s a difference between reasonable caution - i.e. making damn sure that a country’s rhetoric doesn’t pierce through to unmitigated violence - and unreasonable hate - i.e. adopting a “China Containment Policy” that many senators would have us do, or try by any means necessary to oppress and demolish the Japanese economy and their flourishing and happiness.
I guess my other point, BF, is that you don’t come off as being anti-right wing Japanese. You come off as being anti-japanese, and virulently, hatefully so.
I feel like this is all going to lead to a big violent disaster, but when it does, will China admit its future wrongdoing like Germany? Or be like what they say the Japanese are?
July 31, 2005 @ 9:21 am | Comment
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By Laowai 19790204
Of course, looking at the link in the post below reminds me that there as much seething hate on the other side of the Japanese/Chinese sea. Someone better put a fricking cap on it and figure out how to work it out diplomatically otherwise it’s going to be WWIII, and I, for one, don’t want that to happen to China or Japan, having quite a bit of admiration and love for both countries.
July 31, 2005 @ 9:39 am | Comment
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By davesgonechina
Hey, how’s everybody doing? Richard, you’re going back to Asia! Fabulous! I’m lost in the Balkans! Internet not cheap, missing China already. Can only comment in telegraph form. stop.
Hope to be back to blogging in a couple of weeks. And a quick question… any of you guys know anybody over at CCTV9? I’d like to interview somebody who currently (not Joan Maltese, I’ve read her article) works for China’s international foreign language TV operations.
July 31, 2005 @ 10:39 am | Comment
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By richard
Dave, check your email. Good to see you.
July 31, 2005 @ 10:51 am | Comment
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By pete
Back to the top part of this thread of comments about penis envy and all. Just back from a weekend in Xichang, Sichuan, home of the launch pad for China’s space rockets.
Yesterday I saw the damnedest thing ever in my life. I am not drawing any conclusions just yet and seek other opinions, especial from the Chinese friends here. Anyway, I was shopping at a supermarket in Xichang and saw this guy walk up to the back of a Chinese woman and rub or appear to rub his crotch against her. No reaction from the actually young woman. Then the guy again walks up to the back of a woman (could be the same one) and definitely rub his crotch on her buttocks. No reaction for the girl. While was was scratching my head, figuratively, the girl looks at me looking at her. I could not see any embarrassment or anger. The guy has meanwhile wandered off. The the hell?
The weekend was the celebration of the Torch Festival for a national minority (which includes the opportunity for mating by the minority’s young people.) Could this be some weird or psycho part of their mating rituals?
Any thoughts, and I expect the usual joke around, but I am curious if it is one man’s bang or some thing related to the mating game.
July 31, 2005 @ 11:21 am | Comment
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By lin
Money, Power, Greedy leaders, what else left in the expansion of UNSC?
If there is nothing else, then this game will be naturally played according to the rules based upon the power, money and strategies of leaders from various nations. Nobody should be blamed as long as the rules obeyed.
If you blame China, then why don’t you think a little more about the motives of “G4″? What are they seeking?
as if expansion of UNSC would do any good to UN…..sorry I don’t think so.
July 31, 2005 @ 1:25 pm | Comment
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By Laowai 19790204
I think it would do a tremendous amount of good to add the four. But I would also take away the veto too.
July 31, 2005 @ 1:39 pm | Comment
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By KLS
if it aint broke…
July 31, 2005 @ 2:21 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
Bingfeng said:
My wife doesn’t like some of the things I say sometimes, but unlike you, she also admits that I wouldn’t be able to say such things if they weren’t true.
I see you didn’t answer my question, do your Japanese friends read your blog?
Your comments kind of remind me of the racist redneck bastards in the US. They would always say something like..Oh I’m not racist, I know one or two black people. argghh..
July 31, 2005 @ 7:29 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
Bingfeng said:
And you say you’re not racist and don’t hate the Japanese…heh!
July 31, 2005 @ 7:40 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
I see you didn’t answer my question, do your Japanese friends read your blog?
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“so i didn’t tell them i keep a blog like this, ………………
Posted by bingfeng at July 31, 2005 08:46 AM ”
S*i*t*h, not sure what’s wrong with your reading ability
July 31, 2005 @ 7:44 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
must have been the cluttered way you make your posts that caused me to miss that comment.
July 31, 2005 @ 7:47 pm | Comment
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By Anonymous
Bingfeng said:
i have only one word for the japanese foreign minister’s comment - *shameless* (anyway he is a japanese, what else you can expect)
And you say you’re not racist and don’t hate the Japanese…heh!
Posted by Gordon at July 31, 2005 07:40 PM
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Gordon answers the question for Bingfeng:
“I wouldn’t be able to say such things if they weren’t true”
July 31, 2005 @ 7:49 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
thank you Gordon-S/i/t/h for answering the question for me.
damn the duck censorship
July 31, 2005 @ 7:52 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
My wife doesn’t like some of the things I say sometimes, but unlike you, she also admits that I wouldn’t be able to say such things if they weren’t true.
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honest answer, but if one loves another enough, he will avoid saying such things that make her unhappy
July 31, 2005 @ 7:55 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
I disagree. One of the things that my wife admires most about me is that I’m always honest.
I have more respect for someone that paints a picture in truth rather than painting it to show only what someone wants to see.
In other words, I don’t believe in protecting someone from the truth.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:00 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
In response to his racist comment, Bingfeng says:
uh huh.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:01 pm | Comment
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By richard
No censorship! I had to ban the word “s*th” because some asshole spammer using the name s*th has been bombarding me with bea$tiality spam.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:15 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
In response to his racist comment
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what racist comment are you talking about?
“anyway he is a japanese, what else you can expect”
- he is a japanese and will do anything defend his country even lies in front of the whole world
is this what you call a racist comment, S/i/t/h?
July 31, 2005 @ 8:17 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
I borrowed this little
comment from Jodi, over at The Asia Pages
July 31, 2005 @ 8:19 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
Bingfeng says:
No BF, this is:
July 31, 2005 @ 8:22 pm | Comment
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By kevin
I personally think the PRC shouldn’t even be on the Security Council. It isn’t even this (so-called) government’s seat.
Japan contributes a lot to the UN. It is also a government that is representative of the people rather than a brutal ruling clique doing all it can to hold on to its corrupt power.
So I would recommend that Japan takes China’s seat.
I assume some peole are going to be opposed to that idea. But really, what does China bring to the UN?
July 31, 2005 @ 8:26 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
porn magazines are available everywhere, and they are not wrapped and put into a cornor like what i see in the US or HK
high middle school girls put mini ads in phone booth to sell their used pants or “assist socializing”
salary men in nice suits pissed in streets after drinking a few glasses of beer or sakai
japan is clean outside, dirty inside
July 31, 2005 @ 8:27 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
Bingfeng says:
- he is a japanese and will do anything defend his country even lies in front of the whole world
is this what you call a racist comment, S/i/t/h?
No BF, this is:
(anyway he is a japanese, what else you can expect)
Posted by Gordon at July 31, 2005 08:22 PM
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perhaps you should learn one english word - CONTEXT
but anyway, this trick is widely used by ccp in brainwashing people back in 1960s and 1970s
July 31, 2005 @ 8:31 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
Gordon,
i have another clean and quite place to recommend to you - Nazi Germany
July 31, 2005 @ 8:32 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
I personally think the PRC shouldn’t even be on the Security Council. It isn’t even this (so-called) government’s seat.
Japan contributes a lot to the UN. It is also a government that is representative of the people rather than a brutal ruling clique doing all it can to hold on to its corrupt power.
So I would recommend that Japan takes China’s seat.
I assume some peole are going to be opposed to that idea. But really, what does China bring to the UN?
Posted by kevin at July 31, 2005 08:26 PM
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a nice dream, for one day
July 31, 2005 @ 8:37 pm | Comment
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By Ivan
I have a better idea for reforming the UN Security Council. How about if NO Asian nation has a permanent seat? Then China and Japan will be equal.
I think China’s seat should be taken by Canada. All of the best Chinese people are in Canada anyway.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:40 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
Bingfeng,
1. Nazi Germany doesn’t exist anymore.
2. I don’t see that I’ve taken anything out of *context*. Those are your words as you typed them.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:41 pm | Comment
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By Ivan
Well, not to hijack this thread away from the priority issue of Japanese perfidy, but I need some practical help. Can anyone tell me where to get a GOOD haircut ANYwhere in China?
I keep procrastinating, because I’ve never gotten a decent haircut in China. Haven’t had a haircut for over a year. Yesterday I tried, in the center of a major city here - where all the posh shops are - and a hairstylist showed me the rates written in Chinglish:
“1. Hair for Foreigner Group 288 Yuan,
2. Hair for Foreign Teacher Group 188 Yuan.”
What the hell is “Hair for Foreigner Group?”
I walked out of the place, didn’t want to risk getting a “Foreigner Group” treatment. It sounded like some kind of group sex.
Help me out. How can I find a REAL hairstylist in China?
July 31, 2005 @ 8:48 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
I think China’s seat should be taken by Canada. All of the best Chinese people are in Canada anyway.
Posted by Ivan at July 31, 2005 08:40 PM
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are you so sure? seems most of them are back at home now
anyway, i am looking forward to more day-dreaming UN reform proposals, yours is not bad
July 31, 2005 @ 8:49 pm | Comment
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By Gordon
hmm…as opposed to Chinese girls that are willing to sleep their teachers for better grades?
That happens in the alley ways of just about every country. However, unlike China, the streets don’t smell like amonia laced cesspools and you don’t find public toilets by sniffing them out.
I see Chinese men piss outside on the walls all the time. Sometimes it’s because the toilets are just too filthy and other times because it’s part of a cultural habit which is fine, I mean, it’s your country..not mine.
The one that got me though, is awhile back some Chinese photographer took a picture of a foreigner pissing in a river and he published it in a Chengdu newspaper to paint a picture that foreigners do not respect China. Yet, I see Chinese people pissing all over the place in public. Don’t even get me started on the little children that walk down the sidewalk and shit and piss in the middle of it whenever the feel the need to go.
China is a dirty third-world country. I hate to say it, but that’s the truth.
I mean for god sakes, you have people digging up dead, disease infested pigs and selling them to markets.
July 31, 2005 @ 8:51 pm | Comment
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By bingfeng
Help me out. How can I find a REAL hairstylist in China?
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