“That part took place in Japan, assholes.”
Characteristic of her witty self, Shanghaiist Editor Elaine Chow drops a final a-bomb insult after expressing her serious doubts of the looming 2012 China-India war postulated by Indian analyst Bharat Verma to the Indian Economic Times:
He listed a couple of points that outlined why we would ever engage in such a useless, costly, and geopolitically upsetting move:
- Pakistan is not doing well in its fight against India, and this matters to us because China “controls” Pakistan.
- India is totally allying with the US and the West, and China’s scared about that because “the alliance has the potential to create a technologically superior counterpoise.”
- There is unprecedented internal social unrest thanks to the economic slowdown and China will deal with it by diverting troops away from where the social unrest is happening and into a country it has yet to find beef with.
The quoted insult above, of course, was actually in reference to the recent Indian Bollywood movie, Chadni Chowk to China (watch with Chinese subtitles):
[M]aybe Hu Jintao will watch Chadni Chowk to China, get annoyed by how stupid a movie it is, and decide India deserves to be punished for it.
Hey, it seems just as possible. It was a pretty stupid movie. Come on, those yellow Kill Bill outfits? Really? That part took place in Japan, assholes.
I might be going out on a limb here, but didn’t Quentin Tarantino get Uma Thurman’s yellow outfit from Bruce Lee’s Game of Death?
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Maybe if enough Chinese like Elaine Chow kept calling Indians “assholes” there really would be a war. Silly, uneducated woman. But then it is Shanghaiist (yawn). This is a better summary: http://www.2point6billion.com/2009/07/13/china’s-military-dominance-still-a-concern-“india-–-china-conflict-by-2012”-1521.html
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Hey Kai Pan,
I hope you know, this post totally got me in trouble with my mom. She’s now convinced that I’m a)foul mouthed, b) going to be killed by Rahul/Gary Sha.
SO THANKS A MILLION. THIS IS GOING TO MAKE SATURDAY DINNER REALLY AWKWARD. :P
PS I know the costumes are Bruce Lee inspired, but the katanas aren’t. And The Bride wore that costume in Japan.
LoL, Elaine, when you say “this post” are you referring me YOUR original post or MY post above linking to that post?
Don’t worry about trolls like Rahul/Gary Sha. They just delight in going around giving people a hard time.
About the costumes, I was just finding a joke in there somewhere. I totally identified with the Kill Bill reference.
Have a nice dinner! :D