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You may get a few alliances in ASEAN who wants to use United States as a free labor, but you will lose alliances elsewhere such as Mid-East with decent payments.

If US was in the phase of expanding, this might be true. But now United States are over extended with the burgeoning deficits and limited military to cover the whole world. If you want to put more warships to Asia, you need to prove that it is strong enough to protect your so called alliances...

Qiongzhou-Guangdong sea bridge will not work because the seabed here is actually very deep and there is an important military base nearby. If a SCS war breaks out, this base is the 4th level behind Sanya base, Xisha Base and Nasha base. It is crucial for a SCS navy war. So both economical and...

DF-21 and DF-26 have been proved by numerous land based tests. DF-21 also succeeded on a 12000 ton military ship. The retired ship (YuanWang No. 4) was used as a target ship and was hit by DF-21 with a speed of 8 Machs while moving on the Sea in 2011 test. The ship was sunk right away...

If they don't allow China to surround them, what can they do? Attack Chinese navy? With the support of land based missiles, the chance for this CBG to disappear is also high. Also if US wins, US may just only sink some Chinese ships and China will continue to build more ships to do the same...

The problem is that most foreign experts haven't read Chinese history. If they could take a look at Chinese Han Dynasty history with external nomadic threat Huns. After bearing many humiliations for some emperors to improve the economy, Wu Emperor reversed the policy and started aggressively...

How The Presidential Election Could Endanger Obama’s Big Trade Deal How The Presidential Election Could Endanger Obama’s Big Trade Deal TPP has almost no chance to survive next presidency. Both Trump and Hillary are pro-jobs, instead of pro-business, and not in favor of free trade deals. This...

I marked it as proxy war. Mao used Korean War and Vietnam war to guarantee the land safety of China from United States. If US crossed 17 degree line, you would see full participation of Chinese armies, same as in Korean War. Now China clearly wants sea safety to control the first island chain...

In Ancient China, Killing a governer or a minister was a very serious decision for the emperor since each governor controlled a province as large as a large European country. For example, Ming emperor killed a Manchu vice governor in North East. His son rebelled and founded Manchu kingdom. Later...

In Ancient China, Killing a governer or a minister Yes. At the peak, there were more than 100,000 soldiers for engineering works otherwise your logistics couldn't last at all. Also without the 17 degree line agreement between China and United States, the United States could bombard Hanoi to...

Strictly you cannot call Mao dictators because he only could execute his policies through majority in Politburo. Actually since Tang dynasty, even Chinese emperors were not dictatorial because his orders had to go through the cabinet process. Many cabinet ministers were brave enough to decline...

Yes. Xi took the leading position but it takes to fill in the executing positions with his followers. The past Chinese premier Wen was quite powerful with a strong clique controlling economic and financial positions. China is not like India or USA. When you get elected, you can fill in...

You have no idea of Chinese politics. Li and former Premier Wen belongs to the right wing. Most economic positions are filled by Wen followers and inherited by Li. Now Xi is using corruption to purge them and trying to fill in his followers. The volatility in Chinese financial markets are just a...

It is just a sinicization process. In Ancient East Asia with China dominant, many countries incorporated Chinese characters (Hanzi/Kanji) for better accuracy of their languanges such as Japan, Korea and Vietnam. In Korea, legal documents are required to be written in Chinese characters to avoid...

Why Hawaii? 1st island chain is enough. China just need some spaces to protect economic centers along the coastal line. The US approach clearly is not working. It costs too much and cannot last for too long. Some security spaces are required and you never cannot pursue absolute security.

Xi is preparing for a war. China hasn't fought a war for 30 years and many Chinese neighbors and United States become belligerent toward China. Mao fought two wars with United States, Korean War and Vietnam War (proxy war) and United States realized that peace with China was the only solution...

Filipino initiated SCS case. But Philippines has become a meat everyone wants to have a bite. Filipino with colonial era mind are doomed to be the largest loser in SCS.

Chinese characters, or Kanji, are a two dimensional language and the best for expression of meaning. Even people who never know Kanji can guess the meaning. Chinese documents are always much thinner than documents in other languages in United nations. That's why it helped unifying China but...

In the era of robots, uneducated population will just like animals. If they are lucky in countries with good benefits, they will be treated as pets; if they are unlucky in poor countries, they will be treated as wild animals. Robots mean disasters to countries who do not actively pursuing the...

Most Filipinos do not have internet. But this doesn't mean that this is not an internet era.