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The guy posted some articles on the modern culture of Tibet. Why drag the history of India into it? Unless we want to discuss India's cultural influence on Tibet, which was not negligible. Who cares whether there was a nation state called India X centuries ago? We all know that for some...

BTW, I truly don't see the possibility of PRC fighting India over Tawang despite all the rhetoric. As Joe Shearer laid out elsewhere, the "war" of 1962 took place under very unique circumstances. It was a bit like the war of 1812 between the US and then British North America. It was a...

Very, very bad idea. I for one don't mind one bit "his holiness" making his hollywood rounds from Dharamsala. Not at all in fact. For one thing I have certain symapthies for him and the Tibetan elite who got shown the door. BTW, a little known fact was that Mao himself made the decision to...

A military coup may be the only practical way out for the North Koreans, just as a military coup was the fastest way out for the PRC at the end of The Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution and twenty years of shinanagans preceding it ... I am certainly not "endorsing" the military plotting...

While no engineer, I don't particularly see any reason why command centres couldn't be buried deeper underground, farther into mountains, and fortified stronger so that they can withstand a MT device if they can be built to such a specification as to be able to withstand a 200KT explosion in the...

This one is pure jokes. Where was that? Some state in south India? Someone please shed light ... Back when I was in the good old People's Republic, there was a relatively commonly invoked statute roughly translating to "being a gigolo" ... 6m up to 3y of labour camp (Laogai) was not...

I'd love to discuss "Amrika" further vis-a-vis the "empire". But you and "Chin-Pak" from the first couple of pages completely ruined it for me ... So what are you exactly if you wear your country flags so promiscuously?

You need to stop this idiocy that you call "extensive study" immediately ... but I suspect you will take it to its inevitable conclusions ... I am not saying that there is no basis to this deep-seated, "limbically"-wired "race empathy" that you so fondly hold as the Great Underpinning to your...

Generally when someone is banned/suspended, the exchange ends. However, most of the bans/suspensions are temporary (I speak from experience). Even if it's permanent, you can come back with another screen name - few home users have static IPs to begin with (far be it from me to enourage it...

Okay. So you have a cousin whose wife's uncle's third son's step-nephew is Canada. This relation has now conferred expert status on you on matters of "Chinese Canadians" - insert your teenish LOL/ROFL/busting-your-gut-laughing-your-head-off-laughter Not even our friend Rahoo goes to this...

The trouble is that you clearly take this "face" thing too seriously. In no time you went from making some sense to scoring a notch or two below even Rahoo. Shameful indeed. :coffee:

For a south Indian (I presume), your grasp of the meat of the matter is way exceeding some Yahuls. I concur with much of what you said. For any Chinese who actually know a thing or two about the cultural evolution in the land of historical China, up until the European arrival (in force and...

Certainly the majority would agree that a hijab shouldn't be any problem anywhere at all. But this may not be the complete story. Here is another report: A Muslim woman is taking action against a Darwin hospital after allegedly being told to remove her face veil during a job interview...

Hindustan doesn't need to "weasel" its way into this racket. All things happen in due time. I am surprised why they want to join this circus in the first place. But they do and that's their choice. And not particularly pertaining to any of your business, SIF. In case you haven't noticed...

There is no need to bring in "Hindustan" for this ... although I concur that sexism among the Chinese are nowadays a bit less "stinging" than among the Indians (my first hand observation only) ... However, it is a social problem however you cut it and slice it. But most Chinese - including...

Well as women's "rarity" increase, their "values" will go up. As their "values" go up, their "desirability" to potential parents would also go up ... And as "desirability" goes up, the "supply" will hopefully go up ... Isn't that how the Magical Market is suppose to operate? BTW, a few of...

Thanks for providing a source to your statement. But I have reservation about the validity of the interpretation that led to your statement. Let's see ... so we have an old man who possessed an expensive piece of heirloom. Someone came along and offered a princely sum for it. He said: "No...

Source please, Mr. Soloman II, especially the part about "... in case the Empire collapsed". Not often did empires throughout history leave a "living will". And this Jewish national home you speak of - the one promised by none other than the Sultan himself - is it not a one-state that...

There is a degree of justification to that sentiment especially upon consideration that the full-time soldiers and part-time rapists (or was it the other way around?) of the various 2nd tier Red Army corps (no offense but this was well recorded in history) essentially turned East Prussia into a...

I don't blame the Ranger for not bothering to read this piece of g-d-kn-ws-what. My rule of thumb nowadays is that if it talks about "Gog" and "Magog" as if they are your neighbours, then why waste your time? Other than that I agree with you, EjazR - you seem like a "sharp knife in the drawer"...