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"Recently, Japanese leaders have made blatantly provocative remarks regarding Taiwan, severely damaging the atmosphere for people-to-people exchanges," the WeChat post said.

“Financial market conditions are not indicating tight monetary policy,” Schmid said in prepared remarks at a conference.

Chinese officials variously described Takaichi’s remarks as “extremely egregious” and “blatantly provocative.”

Eliot would have been incapable of the kind of remark one comes on regularly in Woolf’s diary: “The fact is the lower classes are detestable.”

In his remarks, he hangs on the word “uh” far too long and often.