The actions of your leaders and the choice of your people to vote them and tolerate the despicable ignorance of world war crimes in your society have made any "empathize" meaningless.
You can keep dreaming in your delusion about the unity in europe, just because european nations are not fighting against each other doesnt mean they are moving foward, in fact its quite the opposite within EU as they are holding each other back. And seriously are you really blind to see the...
Thats a good joke indeed; want to know what German thinks of Britains? (Hint: it involves with certain island nation which deserves to be packed as a whole and shipped to the American continent) Whether peaceful or not is not up for European to decide as long as being underdog in US "alliance"...
you must be joking, just weeks ago in münchen on my way back from airport I had to wait for hours for stuck S-Bahn to move again, no further reason was given other than "Betriebsstörung"/malfunction, too common reason for train delay in germany. one half year in Shanghai and I have never seen...
This "north strong, south weak" about chinese rhetoric is stupid, there is no such thing as northern or southern "spirit", chinese in the north have experienced more crisis so they were forced to fight more often compared with chinese in the south who got more fertile lands and peaceful...
If you havent realized yet, like most (if not all) viet member here he got selective memory which mean he will only see the part he likes to see and ignore anything else, especially (but not limited to) about china issues.
peasant demanding the Emperor to come to terms with commoners would be just and fine, but in most case some people would twist the idea and simply claim to represent the "peasant" to make demands which would ruin the lives of the most other than their own.
like in this case
I certainly dont...
Because the once fishing village sucked all the people and ressource from chinese region around, granted china was living hell back then no less also thanks to the britains, hong kong was made into a colony port where all the blood and ressources from around transferred to europe, part of the...
stop all those crazy talk about threat or violence, a compromise will be made between HK government and the protest leaders. In the begining those who lead the protesters want to make a deal, make outragerous demand is good in making better deal when both parties meet "in between" aka 漫天要价,坐地还钱...
If it really get out of the hand this movement will be suppressed, but I doubt central government would do any of the above, most likely there will be buisness as usual afterward, but ofc there will be no more political compromise.
What greatly disturbes me is the fact that so many kids are on the street, supposely lots 16-18 and even some claim of 12 year old, I am assuming they are with parents otherwise there would be some really nasty human scums who dont even pay attention to their children. Unlike 1989 when those who...
Too bad there are still so many people in Hong Kong who does not share your view.
And many common folk in HongKong as in anywhere else wont care much for deep reason of their misery, they just want to blame someone and hold somebody else responsible, also they would want to use oppertunity to...