Hints and tips:
...Taiwan is a province of China and that status has not been changed by Chiang Kai-shek fleeing there, on the run from Mao Zedong. It is no more independent than Hong Kong is independent....
...Kissinger and Nixon didn’t have any trouble dealing with Mao. He had probably killed 50 million people. So I don’t think Putin will ever be rehabilitatable....
...By helping China’s rise, it seems the west has bitten off more than it can chew? Simren Kaur Jalandhar City, Punjab, India...
...He chews. “And it’s not my style.” Too glutinous? “No, I like the gluten. The flavour isn’t where I like it to be.”...
...If one had a spittoon, as did both Chairman Mao and Deng Xiaoping, one could chew up the leaves and spit them into the receptacle....
...His account of the convulsions in the decade up to Mao’s death in 1976 is fluent, compelling and based on a wide range of evidence....
...Alongside hangs Qiu Jie’s lead-on-paper “Portrait of Mao” as a cat in a mocking style crossing pop kitsch with Chinese calligraphy....
...wobbling, rakish, miniature city of western architectural highlights – including warped columns, cornices, domes and spirals, from the Colosseum to the Guggenheim – constructed entirely from edible dog chews...
...Chew on This: Everything you don’t want to know about fast food (Houghton Mifflin in the US, Penguin in the UK) is Eric Schlosser’s rewrite for children of his own best seller, Fast Food Nation ....
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