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The poll numbers bear no resemblance to what I experience in real life. I am curious about how the questionnaire was put together. All the Chinese that I personally know or those that I meet in online chatrooms have high regard for Pakistan. For quite a few years now Pakistan has been dragged...

CNN could very easily have massaged the findings to fit its own agenda. It is no secret that the West has tried to sow seeds of discord between China and Pakistan. Depending on how a questionnaire is phrased, one can obtain any desired responses one wishes. In other words a survey can ask...

It is never a good idea to quote the Washington Free Beacon, an ultra-conservative online tabloid specializing in rumor-mongering and sensationalism.

It is hard to imagine that even an island nation like Sri Lanka has droughts. Surrounded by ocean on all sides there should be plenty of moisture blowing over the entire country.

Indeed, nobody knows the Indians better than Pakistanis. I saw an interview with a former Pakistani foreign secretary years ago discussing the Indus River water-sharing agreement. One of his remarks struck me as an apt description of Indian mentality---Indian small-mindedness.

The big question we will never know. I will never know, you may but I doubt it: will India ever open the papers from that period? The big question is at what stage did the Indian government become aware that the McMahon Line claim was based on a British diplomatic forgery. It became known around...

Getty Images (From Outlook 22 October 2012) Trooping up Soldiers of the Indian army during the India-China War of 1962 interview “China Was The Aggrieved; India, Aggressor In ‘62” The British author of India’s China War surprised his interlocutor with the force of...

China does not support Assad so much as it is opposed to regime change through foreign military intervention. The whole Libyan experience was a precious lesson for China. China decided to abstain from the UNSC vote on Libya last year out of deference to Saudi Arabia and Gulf states. What...

This is a very amusing piece. I certainly got a chuckle out of it. 走自己的路，让别人说去。

It is only used to refer to Indians in a partly facetious/partly derogatory manner. There is no definite explanation for how the term came about. It is believed to have originated from the fact that "A3" sounds very similar to "I say", an expression popular with British Indian constables...

Another false flagger? Or you may choose to converse with me in Chinese to dispel my doubts. What do you say to my invitation?

The moon does not have an atmosphere, the absence of which renders parachutes useless. Some sort of retrorocket will be used to slow the descent toward the moon's surface.

For whatever it's worth here is an excerpt of an Indian analyst's opinion On INS Vikramaditya, the firebricks are all right & are performing as expected. It’s the glue-material used for fixing the China-made firebricks to the refractory masonry in boiler furnaces that’s...

This is really hilarious, not the story itself but the uncanny ability of several Chinese defence forum members to accurate predict the explanation for the boilers' malfunction. As soon as the Russians cited the bricks as the cause several CD members made the tongue-in-cheek comment,"Oh no, the...

How does ISRO define a mission? One launch = one mission? Or one launch = several missions, if several payloads sent into space on a single rocket?

I'll have to find one. All the other Chinese members will certainly vouch for it. They, like me, are fully aware of that position. It was Deng Xiaoping who made that proposal at least 20 years ago. Deng died in 1997.

For years China has been calling for joint exploration of natural resources in SCS. That offer is still on the table, I believe. The steps that China has taken recently is a demonstration of its will to stop furthur encroachment on its interests by other claimants, mainly Vietnam and the...

Very interesting comment, imaginative as well.

Chinese civilization isn't the oldest. It is the oldest continuous civilization as opposed to Egyptian or Mesopotamian civilization which predates ours but lacks the clear lineage.