Through the GCSP, I am now three degrees of separation away from Chairman Xi and President Putin ...
(1) Chinese GCSP friend; (2) General Zhang Youxia, Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission; (3) Xi Jinping, Chairman of the Central Military Commission.
(1) Chinese GCSP friend; (2) General Zhang Youxia, Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission; (3) Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.
I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it A) extremely comforting that we're so close, and B) like Chinese water torture that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people.
Memorable quotes from Six Degrees of Separation from IMDB.com in Wikipedia (2017).
Sources
Wikipedia 2017: Six degrees of separation. (2017, October 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Six_degrees_of_separation&oldid=804561258