Russell wrote:Now we're talking ice hockey, do you know Hwangbo?
I found her story a bit fascinating.
That is pretty amazing and I can totally relate...though sucks she's "retired" at 36 but glad to see she's still active in the sport.
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Russell wrote:Now we're talking ice hockey, do you know Hwangbo?
I found her story a bit fascinating.
Taro Toporific wrote:"East Asian international relations..."-- Peter Durfee(@Durf)'s twitter January 10, 2014
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While it's not normal for diplomats to engage in Harry Potter references, the choice of metaphor shouldn’t come as a surprise.
The Harry Potter genre is hugely popular in China, where demand reportedly sparked a lucrative market in bootleg versions. In 2007, movie executives rewarded Potter-mad Japan for its ability to generate sales by choosing Tokyo for the world premiere of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."
For the region’s sake, one can only hope that representatives of the countries’ diplomatic corps rediscover their sense of Muggle propriety, so that their next exchange will be more temperate.
After all, the author of the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling, once described Voldemort as a “raging psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other people’s suffering." As other commentators have pointed out, for two men schooled in the art of diplomacy to invoke such dark imagery about a neighbor – and an important trading partner, to boot – is unseemly at best.
The Liu-Hayashi bout makes it hard to imagine that 2014 will bring China and Japan any closer. A summit between their leaders is a similarly distant prospect: as things stand, a score-settling game of Quidditch would be less fanciful.
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J.A.F.O wrote:Just a small opinion here but I really don't think japan is gonna have nearly the guilt trip when japan is buying up tons of debt. I mean why piss off a paying customer. I know it's a sophomoric thought.
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