I think realistically English should be offered as an elective class in senior high, along with French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese or Korean.
No need to make it a mandatory class in elementary school. I remember being taught this shit and didn't recall any of it.
Mainland China and the island of Taiwan is of a single nation and people. ROC and PRC are just names assigned by governments currently in power.
As long as the country is re-united, I really don't care what the name is. With that said, commonwealth implies an association of independent...
Australia is renting 5 secondhand Virginia class starting in 2030's, and eventually will procure up to 12 by 2040's. Add that on top of USN's submarine fleet, China can expect to face up to 50 SSN in the Western Pacific.
It's time to accelerate construction of 095 class, and invest in a fleet...
I doubt it. In terms of dimension, 003 is still considerably smaller than Gerald Ford. It doesn't make logical sense for it to have the same displacement.
Nobody is going to buy for 2.5 billion each. That's more costly that Arleigh Burke Flight III
In fact, nobody will touch the ship if it exceeds a billion.
Philippines occupied the island in 1971 when it took advantage of the temporary withdraw of the Chinese garrison. There was a storm and Chinese troops under KMT took shelter on another island. KMT did not take action because it would cause issues in the anti-communist coalition led by US. In the...
First of all, laying flat is doing the bare minimum to get by, not being unemployed. These are people that found it difficult to climb the social-economic ladder due to limited social mobility. Young Chinese work longer hours than their parents did with little to show for it. Dismissing it as a...
With China's population projected to decline in the decades ahead, is there really a need to build new infrastructure designed for current level of population? China might need to start thinking about consolidating existing ones and upgrading them.
The biggest challenge is not absolute poverty, but wealth inequality. People lose motivation if they have little means of climbing the social ladder, which is why you have the laying flat movement and declining birth rate. Housing affordability is a huge issue as properties are treated as...