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How do you say "chutzpah" in Chinese?

by nadezhda at 06:07PM (EDT) on June 4, 2005 | Permanent Link

Donald Rumsfeld is off in Singapore, at a conference of defense types, lecturing the Chinese on their military modernization expenditures. "Whadda ya need all that military hardware for?" he asks. "Who's threatening you? Some of your neighbors might take it the wrong way!"

The Chinese must be biting their tongues not to say, "We were wondering the same about you, with your plans to spend billions on "military transformation" and your precious "lily pads" sprouting nearby." Especially since the Bush Administration apparently expects the Chinese central bank to provide the financing.

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Re: How do you say "chutzpah" in Chinese?

by otmar on Sun 05 Jun 2005 11:35 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Oh, you noticed, too?

That one piece of hypocrisy is even better than the one from a few weeks ago: back then some pundits argued that Iran cannot be join the WTO because auf their embargo of Israel.

So what about the USA and Cuba?

Re: How do you say "chutzpah" in Chinese?

by Dave Schuler on Mon 06 Jun 2005 09:32 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

I'm sorry, Nadezhda, but I'm not with you on this one. When precisely did somebody destroy a large building in China, attack a major government building, kill thousands of people, and cost your economy a trillion dollars? We actually have enemies and it's best we not forget it.

I don't, however, think that China is one of them and I hope it stays that way. One good way for it to stay that way would be for the Chinese not to confront us militarily.

trillion dollars?

by praktike on Mon 06 Jun 2005 05:34 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

when did that happen?

Re: trillion dollars?

by Dave Schuler on Tue 07 Jun 2005 10:21 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

Sure. See here among other places. That includes about $200 billion in immediate costs (including losses to the insurance industry, loss of business, the actual destruction, loss of income, the amount paid to the airline industry, etc.) and about $200 billion additional costs of doing business (increased security, disaster planning, etc.)for each of the last 4 years. Not much, I suppose in an economy of our size but a billion here and a billion there and you're starting to talk about real money.

Re: How do you say "chutzpah" in Chinese?

by J. on Thu 09 Jun 2005 04:13 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

I had the same sense of amusement at Rummie's questions. See my post here.

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