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I thought you have a "real job" ... how do you get the time on your hands? Some people sure can juggle and walk at the same time! Like Siegecrossbow, I stick to PDF as it is pretty much my geopolitical/military news portal nowadays. :pdf:

Is that your way of saying "good riddance"? I really am retiring for the night you know. But you are right I always leave my agenda behind. :azn: Is it too late to apologize for my "attitude"? No bed time hugs? Not like the Dragon? :undecided: Now what kinda "hood" are you from...

Aye aye captain. I said what I wanted to say. I am going to retire and let the Iranians and Turks take this up further ... I doubt they really wish to.

To 胡子海盗: "relationship" is relative - I call hypocrisy when I see it. We are all on the side of victims and the Armenians in Anatolia 95 years ago were doubtless predominantly victims. So let's get into the topic: If you excuse the CCP government because the...

My problem with your fake outrage is that you know d@mn well that "genocide" is currently a political tool, just as the word "democracy" ... by you know who to achieve you know what. By the same token, you know full well that's one reason why many ethnic Chinese were outraged by the off-handed...

The rest of your post not withstanding - some of us have long maintained the opinion that it will be "healthy" for Pakistan and for China to maintain some distance while keeping mutual respect ... if for no other reasons but the adage that familiarity breeds contempt, however, you don't have a...

A fine distinction exists between "colonialistic" vs "proselytic". Classical Judaism has never been considered particularly proselytic. Before 1967, Judaism was not even colonial. Its Old Testament roots were nomadic replete with the usual ethnic cleansings that were the "way" of the nomads...

For your first two questions, the answers are "known unknows" and probably along the lines of "in the eyes of the beholder" kind of thing. For your third question, the answer is IMO a "yes". Culture is tied to the living. Now the living can take pride in the past and the past can be the...

That might be a small point. But where is the evidence that the Sino-Soviet split was "engineered by the West"?

What the h*ll is this over-the-top fake nativist 民粹 garbage? While I in way condone fanaticism that destroys cultural inheritances, but how about a little perspective? Or common sense? Was Buddhism not an "import" to East Asia, Mr. president wannabe of Asian American Tea...

The point of your original post is taken. However, let's not go overboard. It's beyond a simple stretch to call the Imperial government "the fairest in the world over the past 1400 years". Without being condescending, how well have you studied the "Imperial histories"? I have not studied...

First of all stop casting "aspersions" (as our Indian friends are fond of saying), even obliquely against the good folks of Shanghai ... There should be a law against this. Perhaps your cousin meant to say more "flavoured" ... Now what culture was there in Wuhan? And what culture was...

^^^ You are entitiled to your opinion and I am to mine. And it just so happens that mine is more sound than yours - in my opinion anyway. In heeding the caution from Webmaster (against derailing threads), I'll let you have the last word while returning to topic.

With all due respect, you point is simply out to lunch ... and it's lunch time here and I'm heating up mine. First of all, how do you know ancient Indians had no strategy? Was there not a Chanakya whose "pearls" were to some degree comparable to Soloman's own? You can argue whether the...

Ancient Persia and its various derivatives/components/appendages (Bactria, Sogdia, Khushan, etc) were not really separable from North India. In that sense, northern part of India was very much integral to the silk road and what not ... Who invented or played chess was not germane to...

Well exactly ... when the heart is "pure", the means must be just - automatically and unimpeachably so. How could anyone question anything "bad" about it? Name me one bozo from your warm fuzzy trailer park who doesn't want their womenfolk to experience the full joy of sex! And for whom...

I for one am not wholly convinced about the validity of such forecast that "if birthrate declines to below x.x" then the population will go into an irreversible tail spin, with no hope of recovery ever ... Our single-celled cousins on petri dishes beg to differ, and how did "Adam and Eve"...

Yeah laugh it up young man. At least you should know that the CIA was not behind the 导报 during its limited life on earth as it is behind shiny rags like the "Economist" ... Just kidding. The CIA is behind my keyboard. What kind of "international school" did you go to...

Good to hear my favourite preppie is breaking some serious sweat learning Mandarin. Hats off in earnest :tup:! I have now spent more years here in Canada than in China. And I am very proud of my singular accomplishment: I learned exactly zero Cantonese despite some real pressure in the early...

You seem like a bright guy Nomenclature. Never mind what you father thinks. Are you saying that you think he should just move over as he is already a "lame duck" so as to make way for someone who may be in a position to not jus talk "reform", but implement them? More importantly, what do you...