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No I'm talking about historically. The Hoa community controlled a huge percentage of trade and commerce, similar to the rest of Southeast Asia. But the Vietnamese gov seized their assets and used them as scapegoats for Vietnam's condition. After Doi Moi (Vietnamese version of the Chinese...

I read that the Hoa community once controlled nearly all commerce in Vietnam.

And China will continue to do what it's doing!

So have they fixed it yet or their systems are still down?

I think it was called French Indochina. "Annam" was not a sovereign country, it was a vassal state of France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina

Yum delicious! I want to eat 99999 cute adorable puppies just to increase the butthurt of animal rights activists

"Rude", as in not servile. Excellent IMO.

Why is this likefilm72 person constantly trying to throw red herrings?

Don't give them a penny

Have you been living in a cave? Japan was hot in the 80s. The "Japan is the future" boat sank 20 years ago.

Linguistically Vietnamese is totally different from Chinese and is a Mon-Khmer language, not a Sino-Tibetan one, despite a lot of Sino loan words. It is not a "dialect" either, a dialect would imply mutual intelligibility (the "dialects" of China are actually languages). The syntax of...

Why are you so defensive? I am explaining to you why they are not attending, from what I read. The bilateral negotiations agreement overrides point 5. Besides, I think you didn't read it properly because it says "to handle their differences in a constructive manner.", so bilateral negotiations...

ASEAN and China signed the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea, made in 2002, which stipulates bilateral negotiations as the means of resolving border and other disputes DECLARATION ON THE CONDUCT OF PARTIES IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA - ASEAN | ONE VISION ONE IDENTITY ONE...

1. China's attendance would sort of imply that Philippine claims are valid and warrant recognition. 2. China has signed several treaties with Philippines and ASEAN, which dictates that any territorial disputes will be resolved through bilateral negotiations. China does not want to break its...

How about English? I think English and Chinese is probably more useful.

I will call it Lunar New Year as long as Vietnamese agree pho should be renamed as "noodlebroth", Koreans agree that kimchi should be renamed as "spicy fermented cabbage", and Japanese agree sushi should be renamed to "ricerolls". This removes all connotations of cultural origin, just like what...

If they feel insulted that they are celebrating 'Chinese New Year' then that is their own personal, emotional problem that they need to deal with. Nobody is forcing them to celebrate something that is Chinese derived and which is also not invented by their ancestors, so they can freely stop...

Yes it's important to acknowledge where it comes from because it's like appropriating Chinese characters and then relabelling it as Vietnamese, Korean, or another peripheral Asian entity, which is just deeply insulting. Like instead of calling it Chinese characters or Hanzi should we call it...

But the way in which different populations celebrate it is different and each contains different cultural elements, so it might not convey the nuances between the cultures if you replace it with a catchall term like "East Asian" or "Lunar". Plus I don't really like the idea of taking away the...

Geographically, many do consider Siberia (Far East Russia) to be the "true" Northeast Asia, and thus indigenous groups from that region like Nivkh, Oroch, Orok etc are deemed Northeast Asians. But in terms of geopolitics, Northeast Asia typically denotes Korea, Japan and China (particularly...