“During this sensitive period, you eat 137 bananas from the Philippines to insult China – do you have brains? Do you think us Chinese people can be easily bullied?”
In which special guest Richard Scotford sits in, and we talk about local politics and the South China Sea. And I try to be occasionally funny.
The appallingly low level of civic discourse and attachment to reality in America means that it is entirely likely someone will soon claim with a straight face that FLOTUS in fact stole from Melania Trump, not the other way round. Welcome to the United States of Ignorance.
"When has freedom of navigation in the South China Sea ever been affected? It has not, whether in the past or now, and in the future there won't be a problem as long as nobody plays tricks," says someone who obviously didn't ask fishermen from the Philippines. Or Vietnam. Or Malaysia. Or Indonesia.
Via Amy Qin @amyyqin : On sale at PSA, China's only state-run contemporary art museum: Obama beach ball, "play with the head of the world"
Really, China? Really?!?!?!?
Who says there's no innovation in China? Thanks to @daaitoulaam for the heads up.
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