Li, speaking at the World Economic Forum WEFF) in the city of Tianjin, said China hoped for a united and stable EU and a prosperous United Kingdom, but added: "Against the backdrop of globalisation, it's impossible for each country to talk about its own development discarding the world economic environment".
However, as inevitably as the world discarded the fads that came before it, the finite variability of a game where a bird flies through gaps of pipe will soon be forgotten — nostalgia of a time when a young man in Vietnam could get rich quick and become Internet famous.
Plastics discarded into the world's seas — an estimated 100 million tons so far, circulating in vast oceanic gyres — are a threat to marine life.
Discarded at the World Cup by the coach Marc Lièvremont, who preferred to pick a scrum-half in his place, Trinh-Duc was at his most enigmatic following Saint-André's decision to recall him to the starting line-up.
If past patterns are any judge, not much of this will get properly recycled: less than a sixth of the e-waste discarded around the world in 2014 was dealt with in this way, says the UN.
As Socceroos coach, Postecoglou has kept a firm lid on his emotions in the months leading up to the World Cup, discarding the round, gabby volubility of the public persona he had built up with Brisbane Roar and Melbourne Victory and embracing something closer to the folded-arm surliness of Allan Border in his post-1989 capompning pomp.
In fact, Sunday is the bridge to the forgotten and discarded Holies of the world: such things as woods, the Wannsee, the Luna Park, and the Almighty.
Caitlin McCormack's assertively delicate sculptural works, constructed of crochet techniques and discarded elements from the world of thread, portray dimensional skeletons and lightly tactile skulls and bones and spines that flirt with abstraction.
Discards in the world's marine fisheries.
The military budgets of the superpowers are obviously not the only cause of third-world underdevelopment, but to discard the relationship as a "highly dubious proposition" ignores the social and economic damage wreaked during by the arms race and other cold-war policies.
