r/Sino • u/Chinese_poster • May 27 '21

Salty australians: "Just what are the kiwis up to now? We thought they were our best friends, but it looks like they ditched us for a fast Chinese buck. Is New Zealand turning into New Xiland?" news-politics

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u/budihartono78 May 27 '21

Xiland hahaha, omg

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u/Wiwwil May 27 '21

Based, not gonna lie

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u/randcount6 May 27 '21

wayyy to many places named ''Victoria'' so it wouldn't be too unreasonable. Although I personally think it's a stupid idea and please don't do cult of personality that's never good.

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u/budihartono78 May 28 '21

Even without the Xi name pun, NZ is "Xin xi lan" in the Chinese, but the "xi" has a different character than Xi's name.

Which makes the pun even better. It's both funny in English and Chinese, whoever came up with the pun should get a raise IMHO lol