Rice Has Sharp Words

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

Where the word "sharp" means being a purely hypocritical tool: Rice Has Sharp Words for Taiwan, as Gates Does for China Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued an unusually sharp rebuke to Taiwan, pointedly calling its planned referendum on United Nations membership “provocative.” So a referendum on calling Taiwan what it is and ...

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Sweet & Sour

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Hu Jintao has issued a brilliant edition to what I call "Sweet & Sour" - the kind of rhetoric that comes out of the PRC that sounds sweet and flowery at first glance, but which is a sour and distasteful statement under the hood: "We would like to make a solemn ...

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