Pretty cool documentary. China showing some pretty high tech construction skills. I think China will soon be exporting construction workers and structural engineers in the near future.
I think bad relations with China is hurting Japan. China used to import a lot more from Japan than South Korea. Last year, South Korea took up 9.4% of China's imports, Japan down to 8.3%.
The numbers will probably go down for Japan. If Japan want exports to go up, it needs better relations with...
Not sure if Qing raped babies, but they killed 20 million + people in its conquest in central Asia. Also, during Muslim rebellion of the late Qing period, the Qing were quite brutal and killed 20 million people again.
The Opium War did very little damage to Qing IMO, at least compared to the...
I think that is why Japan succeeded in modernization and Qing did not. Both tried to modernize in 1850's, but there were conservative forces that wanted to keep the old ways. Japan was successful in overthrowing the conservative forces with relatively minor damage, Qing on the other hand was...
WTO is quite powerless. I bet China will make some other excuses and prolong the export restriction. There are simply too many loopholes and I don't think anyone wants to kick China out of WTO.
IMO Chinese vs Manchu is a shallow analysis. The concept of China did not really appear until end of the Qing.
Manchus were the decedent of the Jin Dynasty, Han were descendants of the Song dynasty, and at one point, they rule the geography of China equally.
Modern China is neither Song...
Get your history right buddy. Japan had no working factories to build planes, not enough steel to make planes, no airfield to train pilots, no fuel to operate them.
USA had Japan in a complete naval blockade, the situation was hopeless
At its peak, the U.S. Navy was operating 6,768 ships...
Good point. The American military commanders would've continuously dropped bombs, destroy every working industry, and naval blockade japan into starvation until the leaders surrender.
Atomic bomb was just to scare the Soviets. If USA didn't use atomic bomb, we would've used conventional bombs, and the results would have been almost the same.
USA told Japan to surrender or face complete and utter destruction many months ahead. Japan's leader should've known that their...