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Rachel Mealey in Tokyo: Japanese people believe dolls have souls and cannot be thrown away with the rubbish.

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🥡 NEW WORLD ORDER CHINESE TAKEOUT 🥠








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Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Карага́нов: southern and eastern Europe are “inclined towards the Eurasian project.”

PHILIPP FRITZ: We simply do not know to what extend Beijing will translate its economic might into political postulations or demands.
Clifford Fabro Rivera: I'm a Spy for China and Israel.
Mercedes Fabro Rivera: Don't say that out loud.
Clifford Fabro Rivera: I'M A SPY FOR CHINA AND ISRAEL!
Mercedes Fabro Rivera: If you're a Spy, you can't tell People you're a Spy.
SAAD RASOOL: The days of western hegemony seem to be over, or at least on the decline. A new age, of "Look East" is about to start.



ARIEL NATAN PASKO: Throughout the democratic west, shades of Chinese~style societal control are emerging

WILLIAM ZHENG: The more China modernises, the more the rest of the world should reduce its focus on Western culture and practices.


WIKIPEDIA: The earliest fireworks came from China during the Song dynasty (960–1279). Chinese people originally believed that the fireworks could expel evil spirits and bring about luck and happiness.

Opinion by Editorial Board: Now, China may perceive it has more to gain by shielding U.S. adversaries from “maximum pressure” — and demonstrating U.S. impotence.



KENNETH RAPOZA: "It is projected to be able to strike the continental United States within 30 minutes," the project's website says. China has infinite amounts of cash. Beijing policy makers intend to become the leader in semiconductor chip making within a decade.

BRAD LENDON: The likely missile field, comprising 120 silos that could potentially house weapons capable of reaching the United States mainland





PATERNO R. ESMAQUEL II: Aquino traces his roots to Hongjian village in China's Fujian province, which he visited in 2011. His mother, former President Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, came from the line of Chinese immigrant Co Yu Hwan, who moved to the Philippines in 1861.

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KATY SHEEHY: The plant is producing large white fruit from orange flowers that resemble those of a Squash. The man planted the seeds before US agriculture officials issued a dire warning to recipients not to put them in the ground.
"A Chinese merchant lights a cigarette from an American soldier in the liberated city of Tengchun, Yunnan province. 10/14/1944"


TOM FOWDY: it is the "Anglosphere" – or "Five Eyes" countries, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom – that are more likely to face implosion or slow decline and stagnation

This is a 20th-century grouping that, in a 21st-century world, is never again going to be what it was. There’s enough evidence to argue that these countries are going to decline in terms of global prominence, status, and power.
FRANK PALLOTTA: In 2020, China overtook the United States to become the top movie market in the world.




213 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon. It was a Chinese Restaurant.




KEVIN CARMICHAEL: the sun is about to set on the United States' eight-decade run as the world's dominant economy. By some measures that adjust for the value of currencies, China's economy eclipsed the U.S.'s in 2016. And it's close to universally accepted that China's will be the biggest by any measure within a decade.