Beijing was Japanese from 1937 til it was surrendered (to the KMT) after the war. So "Beijing" was a Japanese govt throughout WW2. Chongqing was the ROC capital, but if "Beijing" means the CCP, then it'd be Yan'an post '35.

So Liu's history is ill-informed bullshit coming out of the gate.

Mad props to Katherine Maher for managing to not laugh out loud whilst being "grilled" by Forrest Gump's even stupider evil cousin.

That's some serious, cast-iron professionalism on display there, in the face of a maelstrom of unintentionally hilarious dimwittery.

Phew! Well that's the economy saved, then.

... and your government is the scam.

Not like that isn't utterly on brand.
Hark back to his stint as a used swaisti-car salesman on Tuesday.
Two choice 'last person on Earth' quotes there:
1. "I give cheques. I like cheques, you know?"
2. "Wow... Everything's computer!"

Much like the Trump administration, that decision is pretty much a no-brainer.

The US will be completely chaotic, fickle, capricious and unreliable for the next four years, best to just firewall off the Kindergarten as much as you can and get Europe working together like adults.

An Inspiration! (As always.) Enjoy this riff.

I suppose the wooly mice give the wooly mammoths something to be scared of.

Ukraine is just the tip of the iceberg.

If the US plan to help Russia take Ukraine succeeds, Xi Jinping will take it as the invitation it is to invade Taiwan.

Win or lose, there's no more advanced chips for US weapons. If they win, next up, the Philippines, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Australia.

All signs you've definitely done something right.

Three Days™

i like it.

Have you been studying the chart like I told you, Donald?

Well they certainly made America grate again.

Is that close enough?

And here I was thinking it was just "a Trumpster fire".

People say Trump had no wars in his first term, they forget he had 3 going on 4.

People forgot the last time we were outside the EU market it made the UK so broke it had to be bailed out by the IMF.

So chances are they've forgotten the use of nuclear and chemical weapons by Putin in the UK.

Why so thirsty for trade with Russia?

The Russian economy is smaller than Mexico's.

Which is particularly ironic, given that Trump's now trying to kill the trade deal he made with Mexico (& Canada) in his first term. As he puts it: "I say, who the hell made these deals?! — they are so bad."

Perhaps just get him a new desk sign?

Isn't he the soon-to-be unelected federal bureaucrat who reckons that 'the real "threat to our democracy" is the unelected federal bureaucracy'?