@GearoidReidy Isn’t the debate over Jingu stadium about its location in “the outer gardens” of the Meiji shrine? I thought that’s the issue. Old Trafford isn’t exactly in an historic preservation zone as far as I’m aware.
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes
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Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. BBC Asia Correspondent, based in Taipei. Previously Tokyo, Jerusalem, Moscow, Beijing.
Taipei. Taiwan. Katılım Nisan 2011
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Old Trafford, one of the most historic stadiums in English football and home to its most successful team, will be demolished after a new 100,000 seater stadium is built next door.
But Tokyo is supposed to put up with a decrepit Jingu stadium because of history, or something.
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@GearoidReidy I only have one request - a campaign to get tourists to use takkyubin. Japanese public transport is not designed for massive luggage - and Kuro-nekko is one of the things I love about Japan. But most tourists have not been told about the delights of couriering your luggage.
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60 million tourists to Japan a year? 🎌Let's go!
I'm tired of the sniffy commentary about the downsides of tourism - and we have all the evidence we need that the tourist strategy is working. There's 100 billion reasons why in my latest - free to read!
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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There’s a very simple question for all the Beijing propagandists pushing this line - why are all non Chinese owned platforms banned in China? All.
Li Jingjing 李菁菁@Jingjing_Li
This is why the U.S. is banning TikTok or anything from China. Just simple chats with average Chinese people on Xiaohongshu (RedNote) made numerous people in the U.S. aware of how toxic their system is.
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I felt the same when I went to New Zealand. 🤣🤣🤣 - I didn’t actually, it was lovely. But going to Aukland did’t make me think, “not as fancy as Sydney or Melbourne”, because it’s a different place. I’m
Andy Boreham 安柏然@AndyBxxx
Aww, I felt the same way. So many Chinese mainland friends kept telling me: “You will love Taiwan so much, it’s so nice” etc etc. I held off going for so long to keep it as something to look forward to… I was so disappointed.
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The greatest Japanese invention most of the world still hasn't heard of. It has long struck me as odd that Japanese washlet toilets didn't sweep the world like so much other Japanese technology - and still haven't. Although slowly slowly it seems to be happening.
Nippon.com@nippon_en
"The great revolution in Japan’s toilet culture came in 1980, with the release of the Washlet." nippon.com/en/guide-to-ja…
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer confronted China's Xi Jinping about alleged human rights violations during a meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Brazil.
Chinese officials quickly interrupted and ordered British journalists out of the room trib.al/DvvC4GB
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As a generation of Hong Kong’s brightest and best start a collective 45 years behind bars, HK cartoonist summed it up best.
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@ErikSolheim He’s also very wide of the mark on covid. No independent analysis 🧐 f Chinas Covid deaths figures considers them to be close to the truth. Other countries had similar success with controlling Covid with far less draconian controls. Australia, Japan, Taiwan, New Zealand.
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This is simply brilliant!
George Yeo, former foreign minister of Singapore explains why China 🇨🇳 is different from the West and doesn’t have it in its DNA to become an imperial power like the colonial powers or the US.
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@ErikSolheim Just because China today dons the modern wardrobe of “nation state” does not make its imperial origins any less a fact
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@ErikSolheim This is surely proof of Chinas extraordinary success as an imperial expansionist power. It has gone from a small kingdom in central China in 220bc - to a mighty empire that stretches front the pacific to Central Asia. China is what the Roman Empire might have become, but didn’t
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In order to promote greater regional peace and prosperity Beijing can establish itself as a role model to all by decommissioning its intermediate-range missiles and cease coercive behavior. 🙃
Global Times@globaltimesnews
The region needs peace and prosperity, not intermediate-range missiles and confrontation. #China again urges the #Philippines to heed the calls of regional countries and people, to correct its mistaken actions as soon as possible, and to withdraw the "Typhon" missile system in line with its prior public commitments, avoiding going down the wrong path further, Lin added.
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@GearoidReidy Totally. Another thing in which we agree on.
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Repeat after me: there is nothing exceptional about Japan's birthrate, and it has nothing to do with the economy. It just got there earlier than other countries.
由仁アリン Arin Yuni@Arin_Yumi
Does anyone realize that the reason for Japan's declining birthrates is because of a mix of economic, societal and cultural problems? Having a foreign spouse isn't gonna fix all of that like magic The Japanese spouse would still have to work from 8 to 7 with occasional overtime yet that still won't be enough to raise one child in this economy
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@ShangguanJiewen @AndyBxxx Same question I put to Andy and Cyrus - please give examples or serious and difficult news stories you have done on the ground in China - not from the comfort of your home.
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@AndyBxxx What's quite possible is that this ordinary citizen lost someone in the tragedy. All the more reason he doesn't want the BBC perverting the event to an international audience.
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🔴SHOCKING!
BBC's China reporter Stephen McDonell and his cameraman Edward Lawrence have been caught fabricating fake news at the site of the Zhuhai car ramming tragedy.
McDonell lied about "plain clothes" police harassing him, and Lawrence can be heard egging him on.
WATCH:
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@AndyBxxx Andy, Cyrus, serious question - have either of you ever tried to go and cover a serious news story in China? Please give examples. Vox pops in the street do not count.
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This isn’t happening 110km from the coast of Palawan and 950km from Sanya in Hainan.
Joseph Morong 🇵🇭@Joseph_Morong
EXCLUSIVE: China Coastguard blocks Filipino fishermen from Sabina (Escoda) Shoal @gmanews @24orasgma
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Beijing doing a Scarborough Shoal on Sabina Shoal. Which is why it's necessary to have a constant, rotational coastguard or naval presence, not an intermittent one, to station at the feature. Large OPVs are required. Anything less than that would lead to such an outcome.
Joseph Morong 🇵🇭@Joseph_Morong
EXCLUSIVE: China Coastguard blocks Filipino fishermen from Sabina (Escoda) Shoal @gmanews @24orasgma
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@jameswdelano And the turn out was below 60%, so that’s 34% of 60%, and they are calling it a landslide 😆
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@jameswdelano At least he won a genuine majority of the popular vote this time. In the uk we have just had an election in which the winning party gained over 60 percent of the seats in parliament with just 34% of the vote. And we still call it a democracy
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Problems with the Electoral College:
Trump won the popular vote by 50.4% to 48%. (Source AP) He won where he needed to with 312 - 226 Electoral College votes & it is being called a landslide.
At 2.4% victory is called a landslide & mandate. It's an almost evenly divided country.
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Taiwan in 'informal discussions' with Trump on potential mega arms deal, including Aegis destroyers, E-2D Hawkeye AEW&C planes, more Patriot anti-missile systems, and F-35 Lightning II JSFs. ft.com/content/7b218d…
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