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Dear ePhone, I agree with sharpie and no_name that this flag system is not helping as much as it should. It is serving rather to impede rational discussion and inflame passion destructively. We had in the past entities who adorned PRC's flag on the one side and Pakistan's colour on the...

Don't be an ingrate in this world. Given credit where credit is due. The old Imperial Russia gave Manchu "China" nothing and took everything. But the USSR "gave" the PRC a great deal - from technology to text books. Yes text books! I didn't know the text books I studied off were...

I was a middle-school teen in 1989. And I actually took to the streets in Shanghai with some classmates on June 5th, not knowing what had happened in Beijing just the day before due to news blockade. I think we put up a banner of some sort ... And I honestly cannot recall what was written on...

Jan Wong is a tragic figure. But I find her sincere, if totally misled, used, and then discarded. As a "visible minority", there was no particular reason for her to wade into certain "controversies" (I vaguely knew the details but Wikipedia does a decent job in bringing you up to speed on how...

Should've quit while you were ahead. I'd say your point is well taken except when you decided to wade into this IQ cesspool. If you have to discuss IQ, at least discuss in an "intelligent" context. Even if average ethnic IQs can be scientifically measured, and validated, they only tell...

I am afraid you are the one who is supremely naive. To parrot the neo-con/likudnik talking point like a broken answer machine is simply not good enough. On WSJ.com maybe it is. But not here. For better or worse, Iran, and by extension the Persian Nation (however nefarious a concept that is)...

Let's entertain "religion" since Captain Thomas blasted open that gate. Sure. Every nation state's survival is conditional and at the pleasure of the Most High. Why, Ishmael is not an "offspring"? I see, "through Isaac shall your offspring be counted" ... What about Esau? Is he not...

"Your" Hebrew states of antiquity shared the land with Canaanites, Hittites ("Philistines"), and "Phoenicians" - just to name a few. Some became Lebanese, and some are indisputably "Palestinians" - especially since you don't want them in "your country". Thanks to the settlers and "Likudnik"...

I think you are on the right track. I have read/heard PLA insiders all but admitting this. However, if my memory serves from what I read, the artillery radars (courtesy of Sweden, with Uncle's open/tacit approval of course) didn't become handy until the 2nd skirmish with Vietnam around 1984...

Every people has to deal with their tragedies. That's the conclusion reached by my parents and I as we watched events in Egypt unfold on TV. I have to admit that we largely discussed the tragedy of China as we watched Egypt. And that was the first time I saw them in months as I came back for...

C) will bury you every time, Azad. A) and B) are merely derivatives of C, IMO

Israel’s Post-American Future By Leon T. Hadar “We cannot exist alone.” That is Israel’s national security axiom acknowledged by President Shimon Peres during an address in Jerusalem in November. “For our existence we need the friendship of the United States of...

Tiger dude, it's best not to go overboard, even if you have somewhat of a point about his words getting intentionally "twisted" and taken out of context ...

Your point is taken. Economics alone won't solve the problem just as putting malls in Gaza doesn't solve the problem. Some form of respect and equality have to take centre stage (as corny as such motherhood statements are). You can't "fight" this Al-Qaeda business with bombs and guns. At...

I know all about that philosophy even if I have never met a "Taliban" in my life. The Chinese Communists have done just that for a billion+ people with me included (for 17 years). But if a group of people led by Mao, who half-facetiously thanked Japanese for invading China so he could take...

I don't know about the Taliban, which in my limited understanding is a "Pakhtun" phenomenon on both sides of the Durant line with or without some degree of Punjabi following. That's my very crude understanding, rightly or wrongly. But to answer your question, Taliban-supported ETIMers have...

I would have to say Little Dragon shows some acumen here. Let's face it, there are some "saffron" members (notice I didn't say Indian because that would be inaccurate) here who passively aggressively wish for a "war of civilization" to solve the "Muslim Question" for them. I have seen...

I am not sure why Sinosolider resurrects some one-year-old news. That was something extensively discussed (including by yours truly) in the wake of Xinjiang unrest last year. The direct link was not with Uighurs but with a brawl in Algier by a group of Chinese construction workers and...

Lol myself. I get called out even when I post nothing (I just gave a couple of :tup: to others I happen to agree with). Look, for the record - I actually agree with the original poster on one thing, which is that the Chinese government urgently needs to limit the number of Chinese firms that...

Fair enough, 胡子弟兄. Your point is well-taken. I personally wouldn't worry too much about the Vatican. The problem with the Vatican historically has always been that they have embroiled themselves in the earthly pursuit of the Frozen Boy's "5 important things in...