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General Category => World News => Topic started by: libertybele on August 04, 2022, 06:04:10 pm
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Beijing to Pelosi: Your Democracy is ‘A Robe With Lice Crawling All Over It’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan lasted just 19 hours, but furious officials in Beijing are making clear that the fallout will continue for a long time to come, affecting both U.S.-China ties and relations across the Taiwan Strait.
Defying China’s warnings, Pelosi flew from Malaysia to Taiwan on a U.S. Air Force plane on Tuesday night and held warm meetings with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, lawmakers, and human rights activists, declaring U.S. support for Taiwan’s democracy to be “iron-clad.”
Her delegation then flew out early Wednesday evening, bound for Osan air base in South Korea, the second-to-last stop of a regional tour.
Pelosi left behind her a country bracing for four days of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) live-fire exercises in six specified zones surrounding the island – including in two cases zones that breach Taiwan’s 12 nautical mile (22 kilometer) territorial waters under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
In Beijing, the foreign ministry’s press briefing was dominated by the visit, and spokeswoman Hua Chunying – who is also assistant foreign minister – offered some harsh commentary in response to Pelosi’s declared support for democracy in the self-governing island that China claims as its territory.
“The kind of ‘democracy’ referred to by Pelosi is like nothing but a robe with lice crawling all over it,” she said, according to the ministry’s official translation. “It may look opulent from a distance, but couldn’t stand close scrutiny.”..............
https://www.cnsnews.com/index.php/article/international/patrick-goodenough/beijing-pelosi-your-democracy-robe-lice-crawling-all-over
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Chicken Flied Lice?
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Beijing to Pelosi: Your Democracy is ‘A Robe With Lice Crawling All Over It’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan lasted just 19 hours, but furious officials in Beijing are making clear that the fallout will continue for a long time to come, affecting both U.S.-China ties and relations across the Taiwan Strait.
Defying China’s warnings, Pelosi flew from Malaysia to Taiwan on a U.S. Air Force plane on Tuesday night and held warm meetings with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, lawmakers, and human rights activists, declaring U.S. support for Taiwan’s democracy to be “iron-clad.”
Her delegation then flew out early Wednesday evening, bound for Osan air base in South Korea, the second-to-last stop of a regional tour.
Pelosi left behind her a country bracing for four days of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) live-fire exercises in six specified zones surrounding the island – including in two cases zones that breach Taiwan’s 12 nautical mile (22 kilometer) territorial waters under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
In Beijing, the foreign ministry’s press briefing was dominated by the visit, and spokeswoman Hua Chunying – who is also assistant foreign minister – offered some harsh commentary in response to Pelosi’s declared support for democracy in the self-governing island that China claims as its territory.
“The kind of ‘democracy’ referred to by Pelosi is like nothing but a robe with lice crawling all over it,” she said, according to the ministry’s official translation. “It may look opulent from a distance, but couldn’t stand close scrutiny.”..............
https://www.cnsnews.com/index.php/article/international/patrick-goodenough/beijing-pelosi-your-democracy-robe-lice-crawling-all-over
No, that's Hunter Biden's.
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And Pelosi is the lice.
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Chicken Flied Lice?
Chicken Fried Liar.
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I agree with Beijing
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I agree with Beijing
Ditto.
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From the Robert Burns poem, "To a Louse".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bA_PzHtfTs
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I agree with Beijing
You agree that Taiwan is not a real democracy? Is nothing more than lice on a robe? That is the democracy Beijing was attacking.
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You agree that Taiwan is not a real democracy? Is nothing more than lice on a robe? That is the democracy Beijing was attacking.
I thought they were talking about "our Democracy".
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I thought they were talking about "our Democracy".
They were.
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I thought they were talking about "our Democracy".
Yeppers and the truth stings.
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First impression (after reading no more than the thread title):
Considering the current state of the DC government, Beijing makes a good point...
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They were.
No, they were referring to the democracy in Taiwan that Pelosi was speaking in defense of.
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No, they were referring to the democracy in Taiwan that Pelosi was speaking in defense of.
I read that the same way you did. I don't know if Taiwan is a lice-infested robe. :shrug:
Don't care. But I'm pretty sad Biteme is willing to let Taiwan go the same way as Ukraine.
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I read that the same way you did. I don't know if Taiwan is a lice-infested robe. :shrug:
Don't care. But I'm pretty sad Biteme is willing to let Taiwan go the same way as Ukraine.
:thumbsup:
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No, they were referring to the democracy in Taiwan that Pelosi was speaking in defense of.
I prefer Taiwan because of this. Wish we had more of it here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMvkusAI9DM
The Taiwan Parliament - Where Every Day is January 6th
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I read that the same way you did. I don't know if Taiwan is a lice-infested robe. :shrug:
Don't care. But I'm pretty sad Biteme is willing to let Taiwan go the same way as Ukraine.
Well as long as it's a small incursion.......
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I read that the same way you did. I don't know if Taiwan is a lice-infested robe. :shrug:
Don't care. But I'm pretty sad Biteme is willing to let Taiwan go the same way as Ukraine.
That's all we need is another country to spend billions on. I think the U.S.A. needs to put there arms out and say "give me".
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Well as long as it's a small incursion.......
That was not lost on me GT! Top Notch.