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Kuril islands dispute won't be solved easily. Stalin purposely conquered it during the closing days of WW2 because if Japan has control over those 4 islands, it will disrupt Russia's path to the pacific ocean. Owning those 4 islands also gives Russia exclusive economic control over Sea of...

Well a nuclear Japan will probably cause South Korea to go nuclear, and China will then increase their nuclear stockpile to keep the edge which would prompt India and Russia to increase nuclear stockpiles, and then it will trigger to Pakistan and Iran going more nuclear, ect. No one really wants...

China should give some food to India then.

While Japan has a powerful navy, the asia pacific region is filled with powerful Navies, I wouldn't say Japan is the sole naval power in the region. The PLAN (Chinese navy) is number 2 largest navy in the world, and while not as advanced as Japanese navy, a war between the two will have no...

India's GDP is less than Italy, so no, at least not yet. If they truly become #3 economy by a large margin (as in 2x Japan's economy like China is today), then maybe. But as of now, no. If former Axis (Germany, Japan, Italy) doesn't get it, then India in its current strength doesn't get it as...

Argentinians should feel bad for electing a president with the mind of a 10 year old.

Ottoman lost, they should deal with it. Why does it matter that there is no Islamic state? UN is strictly a non-religious platform. The victors of WW2 decided from 1945 that they will dictate international politics. They won't give up power, you can forget it. If a country does not like...

These 2 countries are continents apart, a great war wont happen between them. The next major war will be China vs Vietnam or USA vs Iran.

You kidding right. UK will not risk a carrier, that would be a political nightmare.

Wow type 056 is really cost effective at 40-60 million. (Non export versions cost more I suppose). UK navy is advanced with nuclear subs and advanced destroyers, but very small in numbers. That is a major liability. If Argentina buys more cost effective but less fancy chinese ships, they might...

Seems pretty stupid. If someone does something to piss you off, you shouldn't make yourself a jerk to piss them off back. Doing that will just make you look childish. Why make fun of 6 million deaths.

If you really have the best interest of China at heart, you would never say that. If one day, a leader of China let foreigner control Tibet, he'll go down as a traitor for the rest of human history. Tibet is the origin of the Yangtze and Yellow river, it is the beating heart of China. The...

Youth salary shows a convergence between China and Japan's living standards. I think within a generation, Chinese and Japanese wages will be much more similiar (Maybe Japan 2x as much instead of 6x as much).

USSR returned Xinjiang to China but will not return Mongolia for a good reason. If there is to be peace between Russia and China, Mongolia needs to be a demilitarized zone. That was in fact one of the proposal by Deng Xiaoping on repairing Sino-Soviet relations. China wants Mongolia for its...

I believe it is just to celebrate ww2 victory, nothing against japan in particular. China lost 20 million people in that war, nothing wrong with hosting a big event for the 7th anniversary.

UN was not created so that every country can have an equal voice, UN was created by the great power victors of WW2. USA, USSR, China, Britian, France were the 5 largest countries in the world at 1945 (UK and France were #1 and #2 largest colonial empire), these 5 created the UN to prevent WW3...

What I mean is that it is the culture of the PRC to train very hard. They do this academically, in olympics, ect, so most likely, they do so for the military as well.

I believe China is doing its best to improve the lives of people in Xinjiang. It is a landlocked region in a middle of a desert. Infrastructures like railway, water supply, electricity built in recent years has vastly improved the region's economic output. As far as colonizations goes, it is...

As far as military analysts saying the PLA is untested and possibly corruption ridden. I believe on the contrary that PLA is very well trained and organized. I believe this due to the hard working nature of Chinese students. Many PhD students in top American universities are from China and I...

Not accurate IMO. Japan initally wanted a limited war against China but the conflict got blown out of proportion. There was simply no way Japan could win since the war will ultimately bring Japan to economic collapse. Sustianing a 3 million man army over sea for anything more than a year was...