I've been under orders to not respond to Chinese academic emails my entire working career. I still get harassing phone calls in Mandarin because my last name "sounds" Chinese.
I appreciate that they are finally at a point where they can do science rather than just industrial espionage. They've been around a long time. It's time they contributed.
That is absolutely not true. Vietnam was a direct consequence of russian ambitions that wrecked a country and we failed the information game. We fucked up, but ask any Vietnamese person in New Orleans how they felt about the Soviet cancer and they will tell you.
Communism sucked, it killed 65 million in China alone. We were trying to contain russia but we came at it late and ignorant and weak. That's precisely why I send money to Ukraine.
I suspect Trump genuinely hates most everyone. He is absolutely scraping the barrel in every aspect of his life and he knows that everyone knows. I'm sure McCain made him feel particularly stupid, because that's what he is.
Trump is a flabby, greasy, stinking lump of cheeseburger grease that probably can't get off the can without help from a servant. He doesn't think they are suckers, he knows they are better than him. He knows everyone is better than him. That's why he wants to burn the world down.
I have to wonder how many russians are going to be smart and tell the border security that despite the fact they are blonde with blue eyes, their late mom was Mongolian and they would like to gtfo.
Expecting perfection out of people, particularly people who were long in the past, leads to russian-level dishonesty. People are people. We've all got our wrinkles.
I don't claim to understand anything beyond Cajun food and barbecue, but I like what I like and anyone who wants to argue it can kick rocks.
That being said, anything with a bit of ethanol (and not methanol) definitely smooths over social interactions for me, particularly when I have to interact with my elders.