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Great solace for the US and the UK, i guess.

PPP per capita can be used to compare living standards of very similar economies with similar level of development, like Korea and Japan, Germany and France, China and Taiwan, India and Bangladesh, but it would be very ridiculous to compare very different countries using PPP, like Guinea Bissau...

I still remember Indian members on this forum crying "you must respect India" in last 10 years. Respect must be earned, not demanded, as many have said to India, and now EU should be given that answer. Guess who'll come next.

Made in Germany, US brand, with 99,99% Chinese techs, I suppose.

We'll see after 2028.

Railways to Laos and Cambodia are both important, but should not be priorities now. The importance for now is to improve conditions of current railways to China, On theory, other than Hanoi, standard gauge trains can go from China to the industrial cities of Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang...

The cruising speed of long-distance train in Eastern and Southern Europe is quite slow. As a train lover, I've watched a lot of train trip videos, some trains in Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Ukraine etc. ... have cruising speed as slow as 35 km/h. Main line like Kiev-Odessa train...

No one in Vietnam is worried about a Chinese invasion right now. As a German of South Vietnamese origin, stop spreading propaganda about a country you barely know.

Today is the 54th anniversary of Son My massacre, which occurred on 16 Mar 1968. In the morning of that day, 504 civilians, including 182 women, 173 children, 60 elderly and 89 middle-aged men were killed by US troops to revenge for their loss in another battle with Viet Cong...

The level of confrontation does matter. One Polish soldier killed by Russian bullet, no. One Lithuanian town bombed by Russian plane, maybe. Rome is attacked by Russian ballistic missiles, very likely. DC is attacked by Russian ICBM, for sure.

As expected. When I see the craziness of The Guardian in covering this war, which bans all comments against the "mainstream" ideas, i.e. only anti-Russia comments are allowed on their articles, and only anti-Russia articles are allowed on their website, I can tell that the average people and...

No? I've been here for more than 12 years. Indian, together with some Western members, are always the champions and protectors of the so-called "freedom of press".

As expected, today YouTube suspended RT and Ruptly channels in Vietnam. And as expected, almost no voice from our Western and Indian forumers to protect the so-called freedom of speech.

12K or 20K doesn't matter to be a really developed country. Equatoria Guinea's GDP per capita was 30K, higher than South Korea, just some years ago, did it make the country really "high income"?. Ukraine GDP per capita is just 4.3K US$ in 2021, does it make Ukraine more backward than Guinea...

The beauty of democracy again. No one in the West (the US, the UK and their camp), with sound mind, still trust their governments and media. Have watched some videos about "Protests against Russia invasion" by Western media. Maximum participants are around 100 - 200. Meanwhile, protests against...

Vietnam still have to import high-quality coke from China for many purpose, including for steel furnace. Below is the train from China to Thai Nguyen (the destination is Thai Nguyen Steel Complex), carrying coke (Feb 2022) .

Basically you are right. However, with regards to infrastructure stagnant, same is true with the US and many western countries. And the US has killed a lot of their industries too with same reason: Not competitive enough.

No Ukrainian is not poorer. Their nominal GDP per capita (2021, in US$) is more than twice that of Indian. And it is hard to evaluate rich/poor just by nominal or PPP GDP per capita, especially at former communist countries. Ukraina's nominal GDP per capita (2021) is only about less than a half...

Up and waiting.

No direct answer but thank anyway. Regarding the fall of rouble, i think it is only a short term phenomenon. In 2020, the renminbi depreciated from 6.3 to 7.1 during America - China trade war and now come back to 6.3. The fall of Rouble due to this war is bigger, but as long as Russia can...