“Are you a paper tiger?”On Thursday, Putin retorted, “We are fighting against the entire bloc of NATO, and we keep moving, keep advancing and feel confident, and we are a paper tiger; what NATO itself is?”He added: “A paper tiger? reactionaries use to scare people.”Mao then used the Chinese phrase “zhilaohu,” which means paper tiger literally. But his interpreter translated it into “scarecrow,” according to state media reports, before an American doctor who was present suggested “paper tiger,” which Mao approved. But America is just a paper tiger. “Trump’s foreign policy is that of a paper tiger, not a real one,” wrote the columnist, now retired.