China calls PM Abe & Co., 'Lord Voldemort'

[matsuki]

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.

[Taro Toporific]

"East Asian international relations..."

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-- Peter Durfee(@Durf)'s twitter January 10, 2014

[IparryU]

"East Asian international relations..."

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-- Peter Durfee(@Durf)'s twitter January 10, 2014

Rofl! This is a funny.

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[Russell]

Why are China and Japan accusing each other of being Voldemort?

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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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[Mike Oxlong]

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[J.A.F.O]

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.

[IparryU]

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.

The politicians and banks/corporations are two different entities... The gov (aka the man) is the ugly face and the corporations (aka wallet) is the broken backbone. The ugly face gets uglier and uglier, annoying and pissing off everyone around them. Whilst the broken backbone begs for medical assistance (QE) and only can get help from pissed off people cause of Abe's fugly face.

Circle jerking with the corps having to beg for a reach around and the man printing money so they can "put it in the economy" and pay for their whores.

QE is legal but downloading a movie aint? GTFO.

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[Thanatos' embalmed botfly]

Bit surprised this one didn't get more coverage in the news cycle: https://spraguedawley.com/japan-with-su ... na-summit/