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reedak
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1. Donald Trump tweeted on 28 December 2018:
".....close the Southern Border. Bring our car industry back into the United States where it belongs. Go back to pre-NAFTA, before so many of our companies and jobs were so foolishly sent to Mexico. Either we build (finish) the Wall or we close the Border......"
Source: twitterdotcom
2. Why wasting an astronomical sum (between $12 billion and $15 billion) to repeat something that had been done in China more than 2,300 years ago? It seems that the only Chinese thing that can fascinate Donald Trump is the Great Wall of China.
In view of his obsession in building a "big, beautiful wall" all the way across the US-Mexico border, I humorously and sarcastically coin the term "trumpwall" to mean "make tremendous progress in doing something, especially high technology" (as though breaking a wall or barrier into, up, etc). The following are examples of the use of the new term:
(a) If India succeeds in its first manned space mission "Gaganyaan" to send 3 astronauts to the space, it will trumpwall into an exclusive club of countries (Russia, the US and China) capable of independent human space travel.
(b) If China's Chang'e-4 space probe succeeds in making the first-ever soft landing on the dark side of the moon, China will trumpwall up another rank in its space programme.
(c) In the late 1970s, Pham Van Dong, who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976 and, following unification, as Prime Minister of Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1987, told a visitor that "waging a war is simple, but running a country is very difficult". It remains to be seen whether Vietnam can trumpwall into the league of developed nations in the future.
Sources: khaleejtimesdotcom, sbsdotcomdotau and theguardiandotcom
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robert237
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Higher wall means longer ladders to get up one side and longer ropes to get down the other side.
The tunnels could remain the same length though.
If capitalism promotes innovation and creativity then why aren't scientists and artists the richest people in a capitalist nation?
Boston101
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Other than North Korea; I don't see anyone else trying to sneak into China. But the other way around, I see Chinese men kidnapping southeast Asian women and bringing them into China.
The US has hoards of caravans trying to crash the boarder. This is illegal and totally unfair for those who are legally trying to enter the US.
pnp Currently offline
This post was edited by pnp at 2018-12-31 11:50
D Trump is playing to his white support base; wall is not a security solution, it is a pretext to keep out colored people from the USA which the white supporters fear will dillute the white population of the US!! He does that with an eye to the 2020 Presidential election; must be seen to keep his 2016 promise to build a wall to get re-elected! That slimy old man can't get Mexico to pay for the wall as he promised in his campaign, now he insists on taxpayers pay to fund his re-election wall!
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