Firefly anything involving something underrated . If anything , it ' s overrated . <| sep |> Because it was reaching the goal , wtf are you saying <| sep |> If you don ' t mind having 3 G at most , and you are based in the UK , get yourself a Three pay as you go SIM and then buy an addon for Feel at Home . I did this in Los Angeles a few months ago and 3 G still seemed nippy on my Style when connected to TMobile or ATT . I topped up only 20 and got 12 GB of data to use in the US . I think for a fiver more and you can get 25 GB . More info at <| sep |> I ' m gonna be nice and say it wasn ' t a bad postTrump article , but there ' s many exaggerations in here due to several false impressions from the author . One of these is the false impression on what SCO is about . SCO is not some flagship project to integrate Eurasia by binding EAEU , OBOR , etc into it . In comparison , the EU and NATO are clearly distinct from each other , and one can join without the other . Even the thought of an EU army makes NATO bureaucrats uneasy because dey tekin ar jerbs . Turkey joining the SCO , in the long run , alongside Iran , India and Pakistan , would represent yet another key node of Eurasia integration , as the SCO is progressively interlocked with OBOR , EEU , China ' s Silk Road Fund , the Asian Infrastructure InvestmentBank AIIB and even the BRICS ' s New Development Bank NDBIn here , the author simply namedrop a bunch of intergovernmental agencies without presenting evidence that there ' s a trend going to this direction , nor any statement from highranking Chinese officials that that is the endgame intention . The ultimate objective is to merge the Chineseled OBOR with the development of the Russialed Eurasia Economic Union EEU . Yeah , right . Putin would rather die than doing this . Wily Erdogan made his SCO opening in conjunction to stressing Turkey did not need to join the EU at all costs . That ' s been more than evident since Erdogan survived the July coup and unleashed a hardcore crackdown that ' s been met with horror by Brussels where the 11 year so far negotiations for Turkish accession are all but stalled . And France , the number two EU power after Germany , will inevitably block it further on down the road , whoever is elected President next year . The author ' s bombastic tone sets it as it ' s a bad thing when Turkey have been terrible at fulfilling the objectives since it has started in 2005 , where they have only closed 1 ! Chapter so far . In comparison , Croatia started in 2005 as well and finished negotiations in 2011 and it is now part of the EU . Anyone who is wellverse in European politics can only say Oh no ! in sarcastic tone , due to how obvious the outcome is . Even if the whole of Europe accepts Turkish membership , there ' s good doubt that Erdogan can actually fulfil the necessary reforms . Whatever the contours of Trump ' s ChinaAsia foreign policy , Eurasian integration will proceed unabated . China is advancing its own simultaneously internal and external pivot , involving the tweaking of financial , fiscal and tax policies to drive consumption in retail , health , travel and sports in parallel to the OBOR drive all across Eurasia , all the way to solidifying an economic superpower . Another example of exaggeration . OBOR is an economic project , but not an economic integration project . One shouldn ' t confuse these two just because OBOR is so wide in scale . In contrasts , China is one of the great powers that is so far adverse on joining integration projects or creating one for itself even when Russia bids on recontrolling near abroad via EAEU , and ASEAN is developing that ' s two unions developing on its borders . EDIT Ahhh , it ' s Pepe Escobar . That explains things . Consider myself trolled .