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Stop being childish - you know better sub-zero. Believing in a "proper" religion and believing in gog-magog voodooism and acting it out are two different things!

My albeit very limited understanding of this is that the current brand of "strategic-depth-seeking" "neo-Ottomanism" displays more of a pro-arab, iran-appeasing, and mildly pan-islamic bend than naked pan-turkic ethno-national aspirations. The distinction seems subtle, and it could merely be a...

Don't forget 请君入瓮 - what goes around comes around, frying pan included.

Relax friend. Mr. Sub-zero thrives on "living on the edge" - even if just for a moment in cyberspace. Truthfully, I simply validated his sentiment and some of the logic behind it. But I hardly endorse his view in totality. Clearly, if you know how many off-spring of the CCP upper echelon...

You articulated quite well, except the last paragraph. They said what they said when I was still in China! And sources supporting this duplicity is available online. Anyways, otherwise your position is logical, and I might even say principled. Ethnic Chinese have a diaspora, but the CCP...

That might be factual. As I said before, pan-Turkism or Turanism as of now just remains some Grey Wolflines' purple dream and someone else's "potential tool". Economically it may succeed if it has merit - just like a "neo-East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere" ... But that's beside the point...

I looked into the situation behind the 1998 Indonesian Chinese massacre/pogrom. When the initial anger and indignation cooled (a bit), I realized that again, the situation is not simple. It is multifactorial and some of the factors include (in no particular order): - Good old fashioned...

No, Mister. You seem to have some "background". At any rate, they didn't see fit to give me an official tour of Saigon while I was still in diapers. But I'll take your word that the "environment" did not deteriorate immediately after take over. Sure, I have come across Tamils and former...

You are only partially correct by my reckoning, friend. Backing the Viet Mihn against the French at Dien Bian Fu could be viewed through an anti-colonial lens (in fact a heavy presence of PLA advisorship throughout the entire struggle was well known) - with that I can agree. But they had...

Over Khmer Rouge's demise perhaps. IMO, and in retrospect, PRC had no business backing the North in aggression against the South. If the South was belligerent, or somehow involved bigger bullies in a "revenge attack" (as in the case of South Korea and the American push up to the Yalu River)...

Precisely!

You have shown an unusally good knowledge in the intimate slogans of CCP propaganda. Did you foray into the PRC political sanctum for any length of time by any chance? Just curious. With the exception of the Vietcons "playing CCCP off the CCP and vice versa", every other point you raised...

Which was an unmitigated mistake politically and morally IMO (many PRC "patriots" may disagree, but we can hash it out another time). Because it wasn't necessary - from a self-preservation point of view, unlike say, in 1950 (where the casualty and cost were staggering to the PRC anyway you...

I agree that all should stick to offering condolences to the deceased, their family, and their nation(s). Making (political) hay out of genuine pain is beneath people's dignity - whether (allegedly) from the mouth of some ambassedor or from the peanut gallery (with or without agenda)...

Some supermodel with an Amrikan green card and a track record of signing fake nuptial just to get out of service in the IDF should finally do the patriotic duty and get a name change to "Esther". Then it's just the matter of picking out the right Ayatollah ... And Najad the man can then retire...

Truth be told Saad, no state can be so optimistic as to claim that she anticipates the future and know how the "cards" will lay across the table. Least of all the PRC. You may not know this - but Deng famously touted that China was "wading across the river by stumbling on the pebbles" ...

Of course not. Does "Amrikan exceptionalism" not ring a bell? However, in all honesty, it's America's currency and if their people allow their government to fell as many trees for the sake of the greenback then it's their prerogative. But if you believe the paper so produced is worth holding...

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Yes Saad, your view is correct to an extent. Countries (or clusters of them) should be competent and "reasonable self-sufficient" in key sectors. It goes without saying that a Luddite/Gandhian isolationist "we-spun-every-thread-of-the-yarn-we-wore" approach isn't feasible or helpful. But the...

The so-called Arab League notwithstanding, the OIC is not exactly without pull. Its on-stage or behind-the-scene machinations may not get regular full press. But like everything else in this world, its role seems to be "evolving" ... Just in 2009, the OIC did the following: It appointed an...