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Wen Jia Bao, You Animal!
Monday, March 14, 2005-6:14 PM
"We don't wish for foreign intervention, but we don't fear foreign intervention."
That's how China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao answered a potentially incendiary question about the recently ratified Taiwan Anti-Secession Law from a Western journalist at a press conference this afternoon.
A couple observations about WJB. First, he talks slow. Even I speak faster than him when I speak Chinese. (In his defense, people probably understand him better.)
Second, WJB comes to these press conferences prepared. In his answer to that question, WJB alluded to an Anti-session Law in the U.S. from around 1861. He went on to say, "In that case, there was a civil war. We hope that will not happen in this case."
WJB 1, Western journalist, 0.
The next question from an Indian journalist had WJB pulling a similar maneuver by finishing his answer by "quoting from an ancient Indian story written in Sanskrit".
You can accuse WJB of a lot of things (not the least of which is smiling too much), but you can't call him a dumbass.
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