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dont call it new hong kong, call it whatever the place is called now, but mangled through chinese phonology and writing. insist on only ever referring to it in chinese characters in all media.
Yes!
The west be crumblin
It is, although obviously Reeves is saying this not to acknowledge multipolarity but as an excuse to do another 10 years of crushing austerity
how much for Portsmouth?
You can take Southampton for 30 quid. Final offer.
朴茨茅斯 or 南安普敦?
2nd most powerful country in the world!
The people of Liverpool yearn for freedom
please
Hey! Who put neoliberals in my "Labour" party!?
I'd probably laugh too hard and accidentally kill myself if that happened 
China never does stuff that funny.
They should, but also they're so successful right now as a society because they're laser focused on being a successful country.
I do hope they someday take a small break out of winning to do a little trolling though
I remember when the Cameron government were looking to China as big potential trading partner with friendly diplomatic relations.
Tory ministers were all having their kids take Mandarin lessons. We were penning energy deals and planning to built power plants with them. Huawei was an important part of modernising our telecoms and building our 5g infrastructure. There was supposedly even talk of shifting our steel industry towards specialist production for trade with China who were undercutting us on cheaper varieties.
And then the issue of the EU came to a head, partly through Cameron's own party mismanagement, but also due to massive pressure from the groups of hardline anti-EU Tory backbenchers and the rise of UKIP. Both of which have their share of simply nationalist return to empire delusionals, but also both of which have vast and very murky connections with the US - from the Heritage Foundation, to intelligence services, to billionaires like David Mercer. The referendum was a shitshow, with plenty of dodgy stuff too, and Cameron resigned.
So instead the steel industry was left to die. Energy and trade deals were scrapped before they were signed. We were no longer a useful trade route into the EU of China. And of course China became the enemy as we once again became wholly an outpost of the US' new cold war.
This isn't to lionise Cameron. He was and is a self-interested, racist, genocide enabling, wannabe aristocrat who was happy to kill over 100k people with crushing austerity and ruin man more lives. But I do think that there's books to be written about just how deeply involved the US has been in the anti-EU movement and the myriad ways it's used to oust British governments, ensure hard right control of parties, asset strip Britain and ensure its total compliance on geopolitics.
Also we got a picture of Xi drinking a pint in the pub which I might work out how to submit to the emoji comm if people like it:
I'll tell you what: that's a president that I'd crack open a cold one with 
Lol. That pint emoji is art. It's pissing me off so much.
You want a flake with that?
Basically a mlíko.
I did not think that people intentionally made a big ol glass of foam. Now I know lol
The mlíko is a bit excessive even for me, but I'm a fan of a šnyt just before you leave the bar to head out (usually into the cold) to the next stop. Basically just a big shot of beer and lovely foam for the price of some change you got from the previous beer (and sometimes free if you've had a few and have a friendly bartender).
Yeah, that's perfect for when you want a lil extra, but not quite a half pint. Thanks for the primer on Czech (at least I'm assuming this is Czech) beer terms lol
No worries, and yeah, Czech. A mlíko is a pretty rare thing in ordinary bars though, more of a hipster or traditional brewery thing. A šnyt you can get most places that do a proper pour.
Then they can fix our fucking trains too
just do it with liverpool no big loss
Birmingham
利物浦 or 伯明翰?
伯明翰
I am so jealous Brittany will get to be a part of belt and road before us. I get it, I just don't like it.
Isle of Wight would be quite comparable (except afaik not having natural port but China could just build that).
Its name will be 怀特岛
God I hate her so much