samson-sham/vocab.txt

## vocab.txt
// https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/02/taiwan-leader-urges-countries-not-to-turn-a-blind-eye-to-military-aggression
new authoritarian world might be characterized by a return to 19th-century power politics and 20th-century blitzkrieg, with strong-men autocrats unleashing their militaries to crush neighbouring countries and threatening total destruction as means of coercion.
tanks barrelling through towns, homes pulverized by shelling, missiles crashing into high-rise apartment buildings, plumes of smoke rising from destroyed infrastructure, people cowering underground and half a million refugees - so far - fleeing to neighbouring countries.
If latest threats are any indication, the new authoritarian world being ushered into existence by China and its autocratic allies apparently includes preparations to use nuclear weapons.
Russian invasion of Ukraine juxtaposed alongside Chinese foreign ministry officials' mealy-mouthed parroting of Russia's justifications for the attack, along with their flat-out refusals to even call the invasion an invasion.
an autocrat who has already annexed a huge chunk of a neighbouring country's territory - the Crimean Peninsula - and deployed his war machine and mercenaries.
Perhaps most profoundly, China's reputation will suffer because, thus far, it has selectively ignored Russia's violation of the sacrosanct principle of non-intervention that Xi and every leader of the PRC before him has extolled repeatedly and forcefully.
If every inch of China's territory is inviolable, why are huge swathes of the Ukraine up for grabs? What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
China's hypocrisy speaks volumes about its willingness to say one thing for decades, and do another when given the choice between condemning an unjust war and being an apologist for an autocractic ally.
China's reputation can't be helped by its topsy-turvy official advice to its citizens in Ukraine.
That advice was quickly reversed when Chinese officials presumably realised that Beijing's support for Putin could be viewed with some hostility by Ukrainians suffering the Russian onslaught.
Chinese influence has so far been shown to be utterly impotent, if not complicit.
The Chinese foreign ministry has been reduced to diatribes against the United States and feeble calls for "restraint on all sides".
China is left spouting verbal nostrums while cluster bombs blast the bodies of civilians in Ukrainian cities.
Putin's prideful visage perched high above the opening ceremonies.
China's initial response to the outbreak in Hong Kong - to deliver crates of traditional Chinese medicine, a cause celebre of Xi - may bring into further doubt internationally the Chinese model for subduing the pandemic.
any attempt by China to subdue Taiwan by force could elicit a much more robust response
	// https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/02/taiwan-leader-urges-countries-not-to-turn-a-blind-eye-to-military-aggression
	new authoritarian world might be characterized by a return to 19th-century power politics and 20th-century blitzkrieg, with strong-men autocrats unleashing their militaries to crush neighbouring countries and threatening total destruction as means of coercion.
	tanks barrelling through towns, homes pulverized by shelling, missiles crashing into high-rise apartment buildings, plumes of smoke rising from destroyed infrastructure, people cowering underground and half a million refugees - so far - fleeing to neighbouring countries.
	If latest threats are any indication, the new authoritarian world being ushered into existence by China and its autocratic allies apparently includes preparations to use nuclear weapons.
	Russian invasion of Ukraine juxtaposed alongside Chinese foreign ministry officials' mealy-mouthed parroting of Russia's justifications for the attack, along with their flat-out refusals to even call the invasion an invasion.
	an autocrat who has already annexed a huge chunk of a neighbouring country's territory - the Crimean Peninsula - and deployed his war machine and mercenaries.
	Perhaps most profoundly, China's reputation will suffer because, thus far, it has selectively ignored Russia's violation of the sacrosanct principle of non-intervention that Xi and every leader of the PRC before him has extolled repeatedly and forcefully.
	If every inch of China's territory is inviolable, why are huge swathes of the Ukraine up for grabs? What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
	China's hypocrisy speaks volumes about its willingness to say one thing for decades, and do another when given the choice between condemning an unjust war and being an apologist for an autocractic ally.
	China's reputation can't be helped by its topsy-turvy official advice to its citizens in Ukraine.
	That advice was quickly reversed when Chinese officials presumably realised that Beijing's support for Putin could be viewed with some hostility by Ukrainians suffering the Russian onslaught.
	Chinese influence has so far been shown to be utterly impotent, if not complicit.
	The Chinese foreign ministry has been reduced to diatribes against the United States and feeble calls for "restraint on all sides".
	China is left spouting verbal nostrums while cluster bombs blast the bodies of civilians in Ukrainian cities.
	Putin's prideful visage perched high above the opening ceremonies.
	China's initial response to the outbreak in Hong Kong - to deliver crates of traditional Chinese medicine, a cause celebre of Xi - may bring into further doubt internationally the Chinese model for subduing the pandemic.
	any attempt by China to subdue Taiwan by force could elicit a much more robust response