China 'largest economy' by 2024

[Jlaw]

Most Chinese are not Buddhists, they pay Buddha with some great respect, but they are not strictly Buddhists.

I would liek to add that Chinese Buddhism is different than Indian Buddhsim. Chinese buddhism also pray to Kuan Yin. I've also seen Guan Yu statue in Buddhist temples.

 

[BoQ77]

The Soviet Union collapsed because their economy was crap and couldn't keep up with their military expenditures. The US, knowing this, won the Cold War by forcing the USSR to spend itself into oblivion as the Soviets tried to match the US tit for tat, in vain. This is common knowledge.

50 096 Subs? You *do* know the 096 would be an SSBN? It goes like this 091 SSN, 092 SSBN, 093 SSN, 094 SSBN, 095 SSN....096...wait for it...that's right! SSBN. But I'm sure that was just a typo on your part. A person that thinks a strong military and a strong economy are "mutually exclusive", to quote you, surely has a clear grasp of Chinese weapon platforms and how many of said platforms China would need to "level up" (or whatever video game analogy you're applying to a real life situation).

But come to think of it, Kim Jong Un also apparently believes that military expenditures and economic strength or mutually exclusive. And we all know how terrific North Korea is doing...

Yeah. more weapons means less breads.

 

[Jlaw]

Yeah. more weapons means less breads.

Vietnam can sure use more breads!

Vietnamese people shortest in Southeast Asia
After three decades, Vietnamese people are only about 4 cm taller and have the lowest average height in Southeast Asia, according to a recent survey.

 

[BoQ77]

Vietnam can sure use more breads!

Vietnamese people shortest in Southeast Asia
After three decades, Vietnamese people are only about 4 cm taller and have the lowest average height in Southeast Asia, according to a recent survey.

You are right. What is the perfect height?

Mali – southern Mali



Male
171.3 cm (5 ft 71⁄2 in)



Female
160.4 cm (5 ft 3 in) 1.07 Rural adults

 

[Beidou2020]

Buddha has shared legacy between Nepalis and Indians.


Your knowledge of history is flawed, here is a picture of South Asia when the British came:
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It was mainly ruled by a Hindu Kingdom, not hundreds of little kingdoms.

Anyone can make up a bunch of pictures

 

[ShahidT]

Your knowledge of history is flawed, here is a picture of South Asia when the British came:
View attachment 48409
It was mainly ruled by a Hindu Kingdom, not hundreds of little kingdoms.

looks sketchy, like someone drew it in ms paint. i don't think marathas controlled punjab, unless they were kicked out within two years. here is a more accurate map by western sources at 'the time of Clive'.

(Charles Colbeck - The Public Schools Historical Atlas by Charles Colbeck. Longmans, Green; New York; London; Bombay 1911.)

anyway maratha were crushed from west by abdali and from the east by british. by early 19th century they were a destroyed, utterly defeated power. radcliffe line matched almost perfectly with above border between marathas and kingdoms of sindh, multan and lahore. if entire punjab had rightly gone to Pakistan, then it would have had complete legitimacy based on cultural, religious and historical realities on the ground.