<story><title>Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of &apos;bodies smashed&apos;</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50035229</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dwohnitmok</author><text>This feels like &amp;quot;we will bury you&amp;quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;books.google.com&amp;#x2F;books?id=ETQpY-32DysC&amp;amp;pg=PA238&amp;amp;dq=&amp;quot;we+shall+outlive+you&amp;quot;&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=rBmUU5mPIevJsQSz64LADg&amp;amp;ved=0CDkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=&amp;quot;we%20shall%20outlive%20you&amp;quot;&amp;amp;f=false&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;books.google.com&amp;#x2F;books?id=ETQpY-32DysC&amp;amp;pg=PA238&amp;amp;dq=&amp;quot;...&lt;/a&gt;) all over again.&lt;p&gt;The original is, as pointed out elsewhere, 任何人企图在中国任何地区搞分裂，结果只能是粉身碎骨；任何支持分裂中国的外部势力只能被中国人民视为痴心妄想. &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xinhuanet.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;2019-10&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;c_1125099224.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.xinhuanet.com&amp;#x2F;politics&amp;#x2F;2019-10&amp;#x2F;13&amp;#x2F;c_1125099224.ht...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I offer an alternative translation below since I find the BBC&amp;#x27;s translation overly literal and cherry-picked for a punchy headline, although there are certainly overtones of violence in the original idiom chosen. I&amp;#x27;ve used the wheel to emphasize that the idiom ultimately is a brutal one, but not necessarily a literal one.&lt;p&gt;For anyone who tries to mess around with separatism in any part of China, the only possible outcome is that they are broken upon the wheel. Any external forces which support the fracturing of China can only be seen by the Chinese people as delusional.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hong Kong protests: President Xi warns of &apos;bodies smashed&apos;</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50035229</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thiagoharry</author><text>In Equador pacific protesters are being repressed by the government, protesters are being shoot by snipers and nobody cares. Geopolitical interests are a very crazy thing.</text></comment>