China..

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Skybird

We must sit together with them and tell them that we will not tolerate this behaviour between befriended nations. The EU must send Joseph Borrell so that they realise how serious we take this and what big heap of poo they have put down this time.

You can't stop illegal or dictatorial regimes that way of course, you can either start a war, or try to convince them, or you can do nothing. I guess the latter is quite hip nowadays.

"For reasons I have never understood, people like to hear that the world is going to hell," historian Deirdre N. McCloskey told the New York Times this week.
It's hard to argue. Despite the record of things getting better for most people most of the time, pessimism isn't just more common than optimism, it also sounds smarter. It's intellectually captivating, and paid more attention to than the optimist who is often viewed as an oblivious sucker."