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This is what online news has been reduced to. Sensational and provocative title to provoke clicks and then it is news about almost nothing.

Doesn't taiwan have disputes with them in SCS?

Vietnam also has its own version of the 9-dash line, same with Malaysia and Philippines. China just get all the blamed because it is by far the most powerful of the 4 countries (5 if you count Taiwan) contesting over islands in SCS. If the 4 countries were equally powerful, the narrative of...

What countries are part of East Asia? China - Japan - Koreas - Vietnam? All countries that uses Chinese characters at one point of their history.

I remember reading in 2011 how China wasted billions upon billions on HSR because nobody will use it because they are too poor to afford it.

I think that boat qualifies more as a Corvette than a FAC. How does it compare against China's type 056? Both cost around 60 million.

1 US Abrams tank can beat 7 Russia T-72 tanks.

It is unfortunate that such a system still exists in India.

No one should mock the poor just because were unfortunate enough to be born in an underdeveloped country with little education and food. It is nobody's choice to be born poor, but once you are born poor, it is damn hard to get out. Just because you live a much better life than most...

Don't forget Iraq war. US somehow landed 500k troops on foreign soil, destroyed enemy communication centers, gained air superiority and never lost a single tank in ground warfare. Kim Jong il's pants turned brown and he restarted the nuclear program.

How developed are other infrastructures like schools and public transportation in your city?

Woah gorgeous! This is a tier 2 city? Looks as first world as any western city.

I wish good luck to Japan.

An economy awakes : Slowly but steadily, India will overtake China - New York Times By Jonathan Power Published: May 7, 2004 India is now in the middle of what many Chinese would give their right arm for — a general election. Yet China is the power that gets all the attention. When President...

I think I read the same article in 2004.

I always thought Japanese yen was overvalued after the 2008 recession. There is no reason why Japanese products should be more expensive than other products of similar quality. I think the pre 2008 exchange rate of 1 dollar to 120 yen was correct.

I think the slow down is very overrated. When India was growing at 6-7%, the western media was saying India was having an economic miracle. When China grows at 7.5%, the western media is saying China is facing a economic crisis. Truth is China is still adding 1 trillion a year to the economy...

Due to india size and location, india will always be a consequential geopolitical factor. But to claim that it is on the same league as china is 25 years premature.

What is there to protest about. Last I checked, South Korea has de facto administrative control over those islands.

China should build more villages like that.