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You need to calm down. It's a pan-green media quoting a private citizen, and you get all worked up, eager for a total war.

I though xenophobic bigots like this are only found in the back countries of Alabama, who believe that antagonizing all "colored heathens" is the sacred duty of all good ole' white Christians. First he threatened to boycott the Beijing Olympics, then the invasion of Libya, and now out all NATO...

What is wrong with that Sarkozy whacko? He seems hell-bent on a "Crusade" against all non-Christian "heathens".

So the rumour is true, that the SAC entry IS the "Silent Flanker". The aerodynamic configuration definitely borrowed heavily from their experience with Su-27/J-11

I actually think Imperial Japanese carriers had the best names.

All "coloured heathens" are fair game.

The low service ceilling of AEW helos (e.g. Ka-31) make them at best stop-gap measures.

Who? Sorry can't resist.:D

Dalai Lama is irrelavant in the world of realpolitik, as CPC already controls Tibet. Negotiating with him will not bring much tangible benefit to Chinese interest, apart from a few pats in the back from Western hippies/hypocrites. It's more productive to negotiate with Taiwanese leaders.

Taiwan is now getting net inmigration, not emigration. Without counting Mainlanders, the bulk of them consist of Vietnamese and Chinese-Indonesians.

While the US is definitely on the decline (braindead gangstah-wannabe youth), I don't think the US will collapse in our lifetime. In fact, I think the US will remain the sole super power for another 75~100 years.

I don't see any AL-31F. All I see is GE F110... I mean WS-10.:tongue:

Question: what makes large (20,000 lb +) high-bypass turbofans so difficult to master? Few nations are able to manufacture (let alone design) such engines, yet twice as many nations are making fighter engines. And one of them (Russia) is having a hard time selling them to commercial fleets...

Do remember that a disproportional number of social elites in Central Asia are ethnic Russians. They have no love lost for Muslims. In fact, I'll say that Slavic Orthodox Christians are far more hostile toward Muslims than their Western counterparts (a Muslims is far more likely to get lynched...

Bodhidharma போதிதர்மன் was Tamil.

Playing devil's advocate here: ancient China was once a cultural hegemon (much like the US today). And today's mass media will only make the job even easier for a resurgent China. While we should not allow the US to remain as the sole global cultural hegemon, China should not seek to supplant...

Look on the bright side: I bet the USSR was far less popular during the height of the Cold War.

Globalization isn't all bad. The problem is that the post-modern Anglosphere alone is calling the shot. Ideally, I would like to see multiple global trend setters, instead of a single big shot choosing which race/culture is fully "human", be that the US, China, or India.

Western racists have decided that Turks are "not European enough" to join them in the EU, but want to forbid Turkiye from colluding with the East too? What kind of bigotted logic is that?

I don't know where to post this, so I decided to put it here. I've always wondered why Mongols in China tend to speak better Mandarin than some southern Han. After all, the Altaic language family has almost nothing in common with Sino-Tibetan languages, so it should be harder for the Mongols to...