In 2013, an image went viral appearing to show a room of university students in Bangkok taking test papers while wearing "ear flaps" - sheets of paper stuck to either side of their head to obscure their vision. Osborne says the Commons leader cannot command the support of a majority of MPs. irannews.ru That was just the tip of an immense iceberg, says Richard McGregor, the former Beijing bureau chief for the Financial Times. "Everything and everybody got a cut, but it got out of control," he adds. "It was becoming more like Suharto's Indonesia, where it was corroding the foundations of the system." As I prepared to leave China in 2008, the Soviet-era airport had given way to a glittering megastructure designed by Norman Foster. And the first high-speed rail line opened between Beijing and Tianjin. Fear and loyalty has led to "over-compliance and over-implementation of what Xi himself originally wanted", Ms Shirk says. We were a civilian aircraft flying in international airspace. But that didn't matter. Turkey accuses US of ‘bullying’ Saudi Arabia over OPEC+ oil cuts It's a reference to Sunak, who some Conservative MPs hold partly responsible for the downfall of former PM Boris Johnson.
