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Chinese fishermen are very notorious in their catching~ If those South Korea were not vigilant in protecting their EEZ, I bet the korean side of yellow sea will already be depleted by the Chinese fishermen. You can see from the satellite images~ all those Chinese boats lining up surrounding the...

Why would they target race? Why not targeted those disadvantaged directly?This is ridiculous~ Even if affirmative action creates a more balance share of economy amongst various ethnic group, the root problem is still not address. Chinese will still cling to chinese, malay will still cling to...

Suharto's assimilation does work in the limited sense~ All in all of course it won;t stop racial profiling to occurs especially in crisis. Even in the US, Obama ascendency was marked with racial accusation. But the importance is, with this assimilation policy, there were justification to...

The colonialism history of both Malaysia and Indonesia does not simply follow your analogy of native villagers being discriminated economically in favor of foreigners. That story of course are more easily built to incite nationalism and That is the story the Malay nationalist wants to portray...

There is nothing called fake chinese. Peranakan is Peranakan~ unique identity group from South East Asia that stems from fusion of Chinese culture, Malay culture, and a little bit of Indian culture. . There is nothing wrong with that~ culture (and language) keeps changing and fusing together...

Did US Government suppress opposition? I don't think so. You could clearly see that the police has went overboard due to militarization policy, and the American in particularly the federal government see problems with this. That's unfortunately something that is necessary. No country is free...

Yes~ The first step is admit it. The next step is how the federal government handle this? This crisis is by no mean foreign in US history. In fact, occurences like these are the ones which changed US government policies over its history, for better or for worse. Several pivotal occurence in US...

Riots happening now and then in every country. The question is how they gonna solve it? By coercion and suppress the media like China did? Only making it unravel to irreversible damage? Or by letting everyone discuss openly and identify the problem like the US did? The President admit the...

Now and then this will happen in any country, but the fact is clear US government did not try to hide this event~ nor did the US prevent civil society to voice their concern. Even US government sponsored Voice of America did not take this event lightly to criticized the government and...

The Malay in Malaysia view Chinese disfavorably because exactly the Sun Yat Sen's and KMT special relationship with them. Overseas Chinese put China interest foremost (back then) than Malaya which is supposed to be their own country~ How will you feel if Koreans in Northeast China instead put...

During WW2, Sun Yat Sen has already died (12 March 1925)~ Sun Yat Sen is asking help from Overseas Chinese against the Qing Empire not Japan. The revolution he said refer to XinHai revolution. He himself actually had favorable view towards Japan back then. Learn your History well~ .

Overseas Chinese have always had a special relationship with KMT~ that is the fact. It is in Sun Yat Sen's own word 華僑為革命之母 ~ (Overseas Chinese are mother of the Revolution) In contrast, the CCP view overseas chinese as traitors and agent to the capitalist west~ Only after Deng Xiao Ping reform...

The proper way to describe the event in 1998 is a political and economic chaos that victimized the whole Indonesians, not just Chinese. The potrayal of 1998 riots in Chinese community is so distorted as if all the victims were only Chinese and the sole riots is because of Chinese. The one who...

That is Thai's problem~ whether it will lead to better or worse is in their own hand. Time will eventually settle everything~ Do you prefer a perpetual chance of hope or gamble your life to have a badass leader like Kim Jong Il or Mugabe with no chance of seeing any reform?

The essence of democracy is to let everyone voice their opinions~ whether it leads to the society for worse or better is fully on the hand of the peoples. At least you could have 5 year cycle for restarting, that means perpetual hope for the better future and reform. If you have authoritatian...

Well~ those are a very hard and turbulent years for Indonesia. Back then, Indonesia was an inch towards Balkanisation. It's remarkable how Indonesia managed to stabilize and recover nowadays. The article analysis might be true. There are certain rumors that hardline groups such as FPI was set...

As I said, sovereignty could be lost if state ceased to exercise it~ that is the precedent set by ICJ Did china really exercise jurisdiction surrounding the islands as soon as Japan surrendered? No~ China was busy fighting their own (CCP vs. KMT) Why do you think it is in the first place those...

Yeah~ and that all leaves to legal perspective. From legal perspective, sovereignty is generated from actual exercise of sovereign acts, including the garrisonning of troops and perpetual occupation by citizens. Sovereignty could be lost if the states ceased to exercise its jurisdiction and act...

LOL~ typical chauvinistic self-centered Chinese~ Don't you know that before Chinese could even sail across ocean and still busy planting crops in Northern China, SouthEast Asian Austronesian (including Taiwan Aboriginal) had already sail and colonize islands as far as Madagascar and Easter...

As I said, China intentionally leaves that ambiguous~ But if logic, as you said, say China is not claiming the nine line dash as its EEZ, why does it have confrontation with Indonesia in Natuna Sea? China don't claim natuna Island, but why did China try to undermine Indonesian EEZ over Natuna...