Iirc they said that diplomatic measures should’ve been employed instead.

All in all, it doesn’t matter, because they just keep this ‘neutral’ thing going and denounce this and that. The actual trade policy and such work by a completely different logic. They aren’t gonna boycott the US or sever trade with them, just as they haven’t with Russia.

China did denounce the war in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, during a shopping stop in a two-day back-country ride:

“Let’s wait for Pus finishing their ice cream.”

Me, with a baseball cap, sunglasses, jeans and a hoodie, headphones on the head, cigarette in the mouth and ice cream in one hand, handlebar in the other:

“What? No need to wait, I’ll follow yall.”

When I started listening to lots of audiobooks and podcasts in English, I discovered that many words have the stress further than I’ve thought from reading them.