make courtesy our way of life
Speaking of the Merlion City, from a couple months ago:
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Singapore's Foreign Minister K Shanmugam has warned the United States against anti-China rhetoric:
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There is also a tendency, he added, in the media, to portray politics in ''win-lose sporting terms'' and the US engagement in Asia ''as a means to contain China''.
''Such rhetoric is a mistake on many levels,'' he said. ''The world and Asia are big enough to accommodate a rising China and a reinvigorated US.''
Singapore warns US against anti-China election rhetoric - BBC - Feb 9, 2012.
Not sure what he's worried about here, as the dialogue is generously populated with China sympathisers, camp followers and those who paint China as pure as the driven snow. More to the point, it's probably a given that no commenter on SWC, in attempting to put forth an argument, would wittingly stoop to a continuous loop of goalpost-shifting nincompoopery and specious exaggeration, periodically laced with vapid expressions of soft bigotry and overly-biased ignorance.
the left hand of darkness
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Originally Posted by
Ray
Thank you.
You are ever so magnanimous in your pious offerings!
Left handed compliments in English and speaking from both sides of the mouth in American!
Nonetheless, thanks!
You're welcome. A toast to your continuing efforts to plumb the depths of integrity whilst scaling the heights of incoherence.