Международные отношения

[birdwatcher]

She was asked in this particular interview if she kept up with current events, to which she replied: "I certainly don't blame the Chinamen for going home."
   This had to do with the Republic of China's closing its embassy in Washington. The miniaturization of human beings in China had progressed so far at that point, that their ambassador was only sixty centimeters tall. His farewell was polite and friendly. He said his country was severing relations simply because there was no longer anything going on in the United States which was of any interest to the Chinese at all.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick (1976)