reuters posted:

MOSCOW, June 22 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron would be an inappropriate guest at the BRICS summit, the RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday, criticising countries whose policies Russia considers hostile.

The BRICS group of emerging economies, comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is due to hold a summit in Johannesburg in August.

Asked about Macron's reported desire to attend the summit, Ryabkov said: "Clearly, leaders of states that pursue such a hostile and unacceptable policy towards us, discussing with such emphasis and conviction that Russia should be isolated on the international stage, and share the common NATO line on inflicting a so-called strategic defeat on us - such a leader is an inappropriate BRICS guest.

"And we are not hiding this approach of ours, we have told our colleagues from South Africa. We expect that our point of view will be fully accepted," Ryabkov was quoted as saying.

South Africa is currently mulling its legal options if Russian President Vladimir Putin decides to attend the BRICS summit because the International Criminal Court (ICC) in March issued an arrest warrant for Putin over the Ukraine conflict.

South Africa is an ICC member and would theoretically be required to arrest him if he attends the BRICS summit.

Mantis42 posted:

this map stinks, not only because different diagonal lines are a terrible way to convey information but also the place names

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In older texts, Shaanxi was written as Shensi, as early as 1748.[10] "Shensi" was recognized in the 1906 Chinese postal romanization. "Shensi" continued to be popular alongside "Shaanxi" until 1987 when the PRC officially banned pre-PRC romanizations.

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The transcriptions of 陝西 and its neighbouring province 山西 are troublesome for Beijing Mandarin-based transcriptions, which pronounces both as /ʂan ɕi/ only with a different tone (Shǎnxī and Shānxī). To avoid tone marks, the double "a" in "Shaan" (listen) was borrowed from the Gwoyeu Romatzyh scheme of 1928.

Antonymous posted:

it's just wade giles, the major romanization system before pinyin replaced it in the 1960s. of course wade giles was by foreigners for foreigners, and pinyin the opposite and also pinyin owns

but a map of places in 1911 is probably using their official 1911 romanizations

Shaanxi being Shensi is weird until you read

ikanreed posted:

Can we all agree that 东 is "dong" and that's hilarious?

Mantis42 posted:

I think it's funny that the big financial district in Shanghai is called Puxi

An Jung-geun posted:

ɕ

Antonymous posted:

well whatever shaanxi is stpuid cause it looks like it should be 3 characters 沙安西 something like that but what do you do otherwise with the romanization

shǎnxi vs shānxi obv but who wants that

indigi posted:

https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1672236496080781313?s=20

Mantis42 posted:

has there ever been a good elected female head of state? just wondering

Mantis42 posted:

has there ever been a good elected female head of state? just wondering

Mantis42 posted:

has there ever been a good elected female head of state? just wondering

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In 1939, she founded the China Defense League, which raised funds and sought supplies primarily for the Chinese Communist controlled areas of northern China. In 1946, the League was renamed the China Welfare fund, continuing to seek funds and support for the Chinese Communists.[14]

During the Chinese Civil War, Soong permanently broke with her family and supported the Communists[citation needed]. In 1948, she became honorary chairwoman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, a left-wing splinter group of the KMT that claimed to be the legitimate heir of Sun's legacy.[15]

Mantis42 posted:

has there ever been a good elected female head of state? just wondering

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

put the sikhs in their place ✔

AnimeIsTrash posted:

put the pakistanis in their place ✔

put the sikhs in their place ✔

put the americans in their place ✔

Mantis42 posted:

How much power did she actually have tho? Otherwise pretty good answer

Sikhs are cool and they got her rear end in the end.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

yeah mostly ceremonial position I think. Women of the world should still aspire to the example set by the first female president of the PRC though

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Antonymous posted:

elected

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In 1953 Soong served on the committees preparing for elections to the new National People's Congress and the drafting of the 1954 constitution. Soong was elected a Shanghai deputy to the first NPC, which adopted the constitution at its first meeting in September 1954. She was elected one of 14 vice-chairpeople of the NPC's standing committee, chaired by Liu Shaoqi. In December of the same year, she was elected a vice-chairwoman of the CPPCC, which became a consultative body, and replaced Liu Shaoqi as chairperson of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association.

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She was re-elected to the post of Vice-chairperson of the PRC at the Third National People's Congress in 1965, and appeared frequently in the early 1960s on ceremonial occasions, often greeting important visitors from abroad.