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  1. Tom99

    China is building a string of artificial islands to fortify its position in the disputed South China

    You have mistaken. China didn't take Scarborough from PH. China merely reinstates and reinforces its sovereignty of the shoal after PH threaten chinese civilian fishermen with their biggest naval warship.
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    Vietnam reclaiming land in South China Sea: Report

    Looking at the above photo, if anything else, China needs to speed up its assertions in SCS to catch up to other claimants.
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    French Mistral arrived in Shanghai!!

    with the Russia-France Mistral conflict happening in the background, how crazy would it be if Russia asked a Chinese court to confiscate the Mistral ship and hand it to Russia? :) that would be crazy. lol
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    China leads in many high-speed rail aspects

    It will only be better for customers when there are more competitions(France, German, Japan, China, etc) Customers will be able to negotiate lower cost and more tech transfers.
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    vietnam should not discuss spratly islands with china

    The border between China and Vietnam at Lao Cai is pretty open all the time. A lot of civilian traders can go across them pretty easily without any trouble or checking at all. So, tnstead of just talk the talk, how about walk the walk? You become the first and lead the charge?
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    vietnam should not discuss spratly islands with china

    I think you totally misunderstood the situation here. What apiSubmarine meant to say is Vietnam shouldn't discuss the problems in South China Sea with China but instead Vietnam should go to USA and ask the Americans to tell it what it should do(Like the Philippines Pinoys. Look how well it is...
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    China vows support in development of Buddha's birthplace in Nepal

    Stop trolling. This is not directed against India. This is a result of the good relationship development between Nepal and China. This development will bring religious and non-religous tourism and money to Nepal. Nepal would welcome any contributions from India for this and other...
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    900 Vietnamese workers went on Strike in Korean own Factory: Want more Toilet Time and better food

    This is how these big corporations works. Their foremost and main objective is to make profit for itself. Sadly, it is happening in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and virtually all developing countries by these corporations from developed countries.
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    AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) news

    Korea asks China for the AIIB headquarters from koreajoongangdaily Well, it seems like South Korea is going to have a competition. :) However, as this is a multinational bank , any member is welcome to their voice spoken. But how and why should the HQ be in SK or Indonesia instead of China...
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    Is South Korea Switching Sides?

    China doesn't need South Korea on it side. China doesn't need exclusionary relationship with any other country. It is acceptable to China that other countries, like South Korea, can have a good relationship with it, the US, and any countries at the same time. However, if any country, including...
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    South China Sea Forum

    Anyone ocean-ologist or water current-ologist here know why China start the reclamination at that particular area of the reef? It seems like some of the sand just flows back into the dredged channel.
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    What is Japan's mainland?

    Well, it was suppose to be where Korea and China's northeast Manchuria is. But it didn't go as they planned it. lol I jest, I jest. lol
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    Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan to join Beijing-backed development bank

    The goal of AIIB is not to replace any international lending institutions, the like of ADB, WB or IMF. However, it is created to better serve Asia countries with costly infrastructure projects. Any Asian countries still can get loans from other lenders , but how they have another choice that is...
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    Is it time to care about the Muslims in China?

    Firstly, Uyghurs, Huis and Other Muslims in China can still fast as they desired as long as they are not working on governmental job or still a kid. Secondly, religious prayer is allowed in China. Thirdly, going around attacking and killing innocent civilians is not a basic Islamic practice.
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    Is it time to care about the Muslims in China?

    The Uyghurs, muslim or not, is one of the 56 ethnic groups in China, and as such, the Chinese government treat them the same as any Chinese citizen. However, China will stop, jail and kill, when deem necessary, any terrorists and killers that threaten the safety of the nation and it citizens...
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    AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) news

    USA doesn't want competitions or institutions that's outside of its dominating influences or control. An American always heads the World Bank, an European always heads the IMF and a Japanese always heads the Asian Development Bank, even though these are supposedly international institutions...
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    AIIB (Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank) news

    US anger at Britain joining Chinese-led investment bank AIIB First USA is angry at Vietnam and now it is angry at UK. USA, along with Japan, pressured Australia and South Korea not joining at the beginning, but now Australia is rethinking of joining after UK. I think China, as a founding...
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    US blasts Britain for joining China-led Asian bank

    I guess UK doesn't want to put all its eggs in one basket and it sees potential gains for itself for joining the AIIB. First US is demanding Vietnam not to fuel Russian planes and now this. How ridiculous. The Americans were about to pressure South Korea, Japan and Australia not joining at...
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    China in numbers: Highlights from the gov’t work report

    Democracy is a great system that can develop a well off nations. Many of the best place it live (economically, politically, enviornmentaly ... etc ) are democracies in EU and NA. However, democracy is not the panacea for developing countries to evolve to developed country. for example, India...
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    Vietnam to build a high-speed train system

    Vietnam definitely should improve its transportation infrastructures. These infrastructures can be economic multipliers. When other western countries laughed at China for build all those empty super highways connecting its provinces years back, but china didn't stop and kept at its plans. Now...
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