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Taiwan is a category of its own. It is not exactly a country (lacks international recognition) but not exactly part of PRC either (PRC laws has no jurisdiction in Taiwan).

In the beginning of 1980, right after Deng Xiaoping firmly got his grip of the CCP by sending the rival military fraction on vacation in Vietnam for 3 weeks. China grew non stop for almost 3 and a half decade now. IMO, there are key structural differences between china and the rest of the...

What happen to sky city? I thought China was planing on building something taller than dubai.

There are 315 million Americans, and they have a diverse range of opinions. There were a large amount of Americans that agree Iraq war was a bad decision even in 2003, there were large protest in all the major cities. I personally think the war was stupid and that US had a very unrealistic...

The problem is Iraq is not a real country, it was a British construct, a slice of pie she carved from the Ottoman empire. The boarders of Iraq are not natural, they completely ignore ethnic boundaries. Iraq needs a leader like Saddam who rules the country with an iron fist, otherwise the...

China also had a series of terrible war crimes, it is just less documented. During the mid-nineteenth century, the Muslims revolted against the Qing dynasty, most notably in the Dungan revolt (1862–1877) and the Panthay rebellion 1856-1873) in Yunnan. The Manchu government ordered the...

History is not circular, and the geopolitical landscape is much different today. I doubt ordinary Japanese have expansionist fantasies today compared to Chinese (I frequently read Chinese plan to take back Mongolia to restore Qing's boarders) 1930 Japan was much poorer than modern Japan (1930...

Good to hear. When discussing history, it is important to be calm and rational. Statements such as "China would have been a part of japanese empire without the USA" is unnecessarily provocative to the level of trolling. If USA can't even conquer vietnam/iraq/cuba, how would japan subdue a...

Chinese members should stop seeking revenge for the war that ended 70 years ago. “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” - Confucius For all of China's sacrifices, she was rewarded with veto power in the UNSC, something that is still the envy of many nations today.

IMO china did pretty well against Japan in WW2. We are talking about a country with no airplanes, no tanks and 1 gun for every 10 soldier. It was not exactly clear that Japan would have won either. I think it most likely would have turned into a vietnam war ending where Japan's economic...

That was probably why Japan's empire crumbled in just 2 years. You cannot hold on to such a big land without seriously draining your own strength. How are you going to pacify the native population so that there are no daily revolts? The British was much better at empire building (let native...

I'm not sure if that is true, just look at the map. If I were a Japanese military strategist, I wouldn't even think about invading Russia. How are you going to march all the way across Siberia to Moscow? We all know how cold it gets. At best, Japan will have some troops stationed in Siberia...

IMO, the weakness of the Qing and KMT military was how internally divided it was. During first sino japanese war, the southern warlord did not want to send his fleet to help out with the war. In second sino japanese war, a lot of KMT warlord were half-*** about fighting. They'll rather see a...

Stalin was a very intelligent and opportunistic man. IMO he signed the non aggression pact with both Germany and Japan so that he can a mass troops and invade Germany/Manchuria once the timing is right. A lot of historians actually thought Nazi's invasion against soviet union was a sound...

The war against Nazi Germany had a large role to due with that.

I would go back to the topic, but it has already been derailed badly by trolls (too many indian vs chinese insults). IMO Japan had no chance to win at all. War against USA was already inevitable. Japan knew she needed to conquer dutch indies for the oil to continue her war against China, but...

I doubt that. The prolonged war in China already shattered Japanese economy and USA has already put full sanctions on Japan. Japan only had oil supplies for a year to run her war machine. Japan had 2 options really, leave Asia, or fight against USA, unfortunately for the millions of Japanese...

As long as the missile is not threatening any country, I don't see why China should complain. China has thousands of missiles pointed at Taiwan which in turn is also pointed at Japan, Japan doesn't complain.

I was responding to Tshering22's assertion that America is some sort of police state, mostly agreeing, but America's problem is more so due to racism rather than a structural part of American society.

You missed my point, I never said that modern Japanese and Germans should be blamed for the crimes of their great grandfathers. It is indeed unfortunate that many Indians suffered from British rule. While America is not perfect, it still has one of the highest GDP per capita and HDI in the...