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What about Taiwanese Vietnamese tensions around Taiping island in the Spratly's ? Taiwan has a buildup and held the largest scale wargames there for decades last year on that island because of "Vietnamese provocations"! Taiwan is only viewed by Vietnamese as not a threat because of its size and...

Taiwan lay claim to the same islands in the South China Sea (Paracel, Spratly's) as China and for the same reason. :coffee: Their position on the dispute's are closer to that of China's then that of Vietnam's.

Believe it or not i'm with the Indians on this one. What the Italians did was outrageous and this is the chance for India to show herself to the world. Is India indeed a potential suppa power ? Or is India merely a banana republic and is still begging for crums from the white man ? This move is...

The Americans are going to limp out of Afghanistan like the British and Soviet did before them. In Afghanistan it is easy to win battle's but impossible to win the war. The longer the Americans stay in Afghanistan the more resources they are going to waste.

You live by the sword you die by the sword.

We should be proud. :china: :pakistan:

80% of sewage water untreated in India http://www.terradaily.com/reports/80_of_Indian_sewage_flows_untreated_into_rivers_st udy_999.html sorry didn't know already posted perhabs merge the two threads.

Remember India's economy is less than a 1/4 of that of China's 8250 billion $ vs 1947 billion $ or about 4,25 times smaller.

Pakistan risks US sanctions over Iran pipeline project - thenews.com.pk

How many wars did the US start over the past 30 years ? And how many wars did Iran start in the same period ?

It has nothing to do with Chinese or Indian prices. Its simply the fact that 1 USD today buy a lot less than in 2002 ie inflation. Communisme is both political and a economic system. The planned economy, China has abandon that for a freemarkt economy...

Capitalist.

Actually Cirr is correct the prices of everything has gone up for the past 10 years, the value of the USD has gone down quite considerably. You can't draw a strait line between China's GDP in 2002 and India's GDP in 2012 in dollar terms. This is you're reasoning, to me it's a big huh. The...

China is not a superpower. Very few Chinese will call China a superpower, its primarily foreigners that call China a superpower.

India is far from being the land of the free like you want to portray it. Or else how do you explain why everyone from Kashmiris to Maoist are picking up weapons to fight the Indian state ? These rebellions are linked to the deep seated injustices in India's economic, social and political...

The fact that America has over a 1000 bases around the world and has been waging war against other countries over the past decade on a permanent bases doesn't speak in America's favour. All those you mentioned are only a very small proportion of the general population. The fact that only a third...

;) But China hasn't been waging a war in Iraq or Afghanistan for the past 10 year's either. ;)

The story may or may not be true but you cannot deny the level of ignorence amongst the Americans. Despite fighting 2 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the past decade many Americans still cannot find either country on a map. Or the fact like this survey shows that a majority of the people polled...

This reminds me of a story i once heard about Americans. During the Vietnam War (1965-1973) large numbers of young men volunteered to fight in Vietnam. Sociologist in major American universities wanted to investigate and understand this phenomenon. When they asked these persons why they...

:what: Please explain.