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    Minoru Saba (minorusaba@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Sep-2025 08:40:22 JST Minoru Saba Minoru Saba

    TV news in Japan translated "paper tiger" as "張子の虎(hariko no tora: papier-mâché tiger).
    Quick search result:
    " ‘Paper tiger’ is one of several phrases we first heard in Mao’s Little Red Book...used against their opponents, particularly the US govt"
    But "Mao didn’t coin the phrase; it had been an idiom in the Chinese language for some time"
    https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/277650.html

    OTOH Russian claims to being a bear (медведь) brought to mind their former President. So, "paper bear"?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev

    In conversation about 5 months ago from toad.social permalink

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      Dmitry Medvedev
      Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Medvedev was also the president of Russia from 2008 to 2012 and prime minister of Russia from 2012 to 2020. Medvedev was elected president in the 2008 election. He was seen as more liberal than his predecessor Vladimir Putin, who was prime minister in Medvedev's presidency. Medvedev's agenda as president was a wide-ranging modernisation programme, aimed at modernising Russia's economy and society, and lessening the country's reliance on oil and gas. During Medvedev's tenure, the United States and Russia signed the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty. Russia won the Russo-Georgian War, and recovered from the Great Recession. Medvedev also launched an anti-corruption campaign, yet was later accused of corruption himself. He served a single term in office and was succeeded by Putin following the 2012 presidential election. Putin then appointed Medvedev as prime minister. He resigned along with the rest of the government on 15 January 2020 to allow Putin to make sweeping...

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