July 25, 2005
General Zhu Blows Bull
Maybe from Kim Il Song, or if an Islamist group seized Pakistan, I might buy it, but sorry, not modern China. This General Zhu's nuke threats against the US wash away quickly when he concedes that doing so would me an China would lose all major cities east of Xian. Could the US credibly claim a willingness to lose all major cities east of Chicago, plus California? It reminds me of Monty Python's Knight of Ni who insists his enemy keeps fighting even after he had had all his limbs chopped off. This is not a statement of China's strength, but rather a back-handed claim of weakness. (FYI, chui1 niu2, or "blowing bull", is the Chinese expression for bullsh-tting. Funny that both cultures invoke the bull to symbolize bluffing.)
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Actually, it was Monty Python's version of the 'Black Knight.' The 'Knights Who Say "Ni"' are from a later scene.
Posted by: Matt (really) at July 28, 2005 10:12 PM
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