@kewpie said
If countries were humans, they'd have to be male.
We are the greatest!
Our xxx is bigger than your xxx!
... etc, etc

It's all meaningless preening and strutting. Countries are artificial entities, just like corporations. Or football teams. What do you use as a yardstick?

Your way off track nothing to do with China unless of course you're talking in riddles! 🙂

Sounded more like sexual references to me.

-VR

@very-rusty said
Your way off track nothing to do with China unless of course you're talking in riddles! 🙂

Sounded more like sexual references to me.

-VR

Her analogy was sound and on topic.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Her analogy was sound and on topic.

Of course it wasn't goad, stop butt kissing!

Just for once!!! 😛 🙂

-VR

@very-rusty said
Your way off track nothing to do with China unless of course you're talking in riddles! 🙂

Sounded more like sexual references to me.

-VR

I figured you wouldn't get it, Rusty. Not to worry. ☺

@kewpie said
If countries were humans, they'd have to be male.
We are the greatest!
Our xxx is bigger than your xxx!
... etc, etc

It's all meaningless preening and strutting. Countries are artificial entities, just like corporations. Or football teams. What do you use as a yardstick?

Mine's a metre stick!

Okay, seemed funny at the time.

@petewxyz said
Mine's a metre stick!

Okay, seemed funny at the time.

I use my foot as a rule.

@kewpie said
I figured you wouldn't get it, Rusty. Not to worry. ☺

OH I got it and it wasn't close to what is going on.

It has nothing to do with who has the biggest one kewpie, it has to do with who has the most power.

Do you think at this point the U.S. is stronger than China or China has any concerns in the least about the U.S.. Do you think Korea cares what the U.S. tell them to do?

It is all about who has the most POWER!!!!

The U.S. has to get back to where it was before it is too late, you probably have somehing which is from China that you own.

-VR

@badradger said
I use my foot as a rule.

Why, you only need a toe! 😛 😉

Not China related but I couldn't resist!!! 😉

-VR

@very-rusty said
OH I got it and it wasn't close to what is going on.

If you 'got it,' why did you say it wasn't about China and was written in riddles?

@very-rusty said
The U.S. has to get back to where it was before it is too late, you probably have somehing which is from China that you own.

-VR

I have a plate made in Lichtenstein. Does that make Lichtenstein powerful?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
If you 'got it,' why did you say it wasn't about China and was written in riddles?

It worked gets people talking about it!

China is the topic so you would do well to get back to it, Sir!

-VR

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I have a plate made in Lichtenstein. Does that make Lichtenstein powerful?

Is Luchtenstein in China? 🙂

-VR

@very-rusty said
Is Luchtenstein in China? 🙂

-VR

You stated, 'you probably have something which is from China that you own,' clearly implying this somehow made China powerful.

My Lichtenstein comparison merely highlighted how flawed your 'reasoning' was.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
You stated, 'you probably have something which is from China that you own,' clearly implying this somehow made China powerful.

My Lichtenstein comparison merely highlighted how flawed your 'reasoning' was.

goad I bet you too own something which was made in China. Their products are all over the world. What other country do you know of that can claim that?

My reasoning is flawed in no way, just your way of thinking is when it concerns me. 😉 😛

Check the bottom of your fine China and tell me where it was made! 😉

In 2019: UK exports to China were worth £30.7 billion; imports from China were £49.0 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of -£18.3 billion. The UK had a small surplus with China on trade in services, outweighed by a deficit on trade in goods. China accounted for 4.4% of UK exports and 6.8% of all UK imports.Jul 14, 2020

-VR

@ghost-of-a-duke said
According to the 2020 rankings of powerful nations, China remains behind the USA and Russia.

Do you live in the year 2050?

LOL@ goad, you asked that already. Memory issues?

That is what you do when you can't think of anything to say, just say something lame.

Not my fault the rankings are incorrect goad! 🙂

Perhaps you should start learning how to speak Mandarin, as I will not be around when China takes over.

-VR