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It's the same thing. A stable nation's army is loyal to its legitimate government. US military force is also loyal to the ruling government with the president being the overall head where the military reports to. Didn't you just start a thread on Tiananmen a few days ago, where quite a few...

You guys do realize that Chinese software industry revenue is about 10 times of India's software industry revenue right? Chinese software companies tends to focus on East Asia markets.

Do I want someone with no knowledge on operation of a nation, do not spending time to understand history and only interested his/her own pocket to participate in choosing the nation's leader? Gee, I wonder. BTW, US has less than half of the GDP per capita of Luxembourg and less human...

Yeah, a grieving relative is lashing out in anger. What a surprise! That must have some sort of politic meaning, it is not like it could be, I don't know, grieving people lashing out?! :crazy: A few week earlier, there similar demands right after the Baltimore riots, for the government to...

Considering US counts Saudi Arabia as one of its biggest allies, the "dictatorship" bit has zero influence on whether you have allies. Considering how many allies USSR lost when it disintegrated, there is no way China's external environment would be anywhere as good as it is today.

Like I said, a large knife is used for a scalpel's job, it is bound to leave some scars. I don't think "do not care much about people opinion" though. Communications get done all the time. While the Chinese government still isn't as good as Americans when it comes to information manipulation...

Erm, on the Alibaba stock topic, gambling life saving on an internet company is never a good idea. You might want to diverse the portfolio.

Nah, the political reform is an ongoing process. It still continues today. Heck, about 20% of the news from CCTV-1 everyday is on internal reforms and issues. However, what June 4th did was the end of radical revolutions. Ever since 1949, China has been going through rapid social and political...

Unless it crashed into Chinese border, please move the thread to Central & South Asia section.

...People, UK is a US ally, not a US vassal. Just because it is not jumping through hoops as US demand, doesn't mean it like China more than US. The AIIB issue is pretty simple. US doesn't want other nations to join AIIB because China is its main competitor, but the will of US does not extend...

Erm, renewable providing 100% of your need is actually a problem. Wind and solar energy is a huge strain on grid stability. In fact, under current storage technology, you always need a large amount of nuclear/fire generation to absorb the wild swings from wind and solar. Not to mention one of...

You know, this is hardly the first time they are left holding the bag. Not the second or the third time, either. You'd think the lesson would have gotten through by this point.

I look forward to see what CNN and Fox news have to say about this. It is bound to be entertaining.

How is the geographical stability in that area? The entire problem of Japan's energy crisis comes from the fact it sits on the pacific volcano and earthquake belt, which made nuclear power station problematic. A pipeline would have similar problems.

Erm, you are, of course, aware that the reason Russian sold Alaska was because they just lost a war and couldn't hold it anyway.

It is not a problem limited to the Chinese student. International students in general tends to have this kind of problem. Student from English speaking country fair better since they do not have to overcome the language barrier, but even they have overcome the other issues. In fact, not even...

Argh, Don't remind me of the the editing. During my first year undergraduate study, one of the professor asked, in the first class "how many of you picked electrical engineering because you don't want to take English class anymore". Understandably, a huge portion of the class raise their hand...

I never had accounting classes, but I did have history and economic classes. There is a lot of intricacies to grasp. I don't really get why any Chinese student would want to do undergraduate in US. Not only it is much more expensive, it doesn't offer any advantage either. US university's...

...whoever thought Buddhism = non-violence obviously didn't ready history very much. While non-violence is in Buddhism text and teaching, Christianity and Islam also both encouraged peace. The reality is, in ancient time, powerful Buddhist temples, like any other organized religious...

How did Carter expect that work? Did he expect Vietnam to damage its national interest so US can get some way to criticize China? For a measly 18 million dollars? Vietnam economy is small, but not that small.