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Sticking to the old ways doesn't bring greatness. The new always replaces the old. HK & Taiwan evaded many storms after 1949 but those storms are the very ones transformed the mainland into what the mainland is nowadays. Keeping the old ways is the last thing on the city mayors' kind. I don't...

This is not another HK. It is to promote Guangzhou (to take partial place of HK). In the long run every free trade zone bites into HK's share.

scratch "nobody". Lots of people did. But the public need some feel-good stuff.

yet orgainized monotheism has evolutional advance over less exclusive&violent religions. to make it worse, those cultures' moral system originated from their religion and they simply can't let go their religion w/o crashing their own culture. that is very screwed.

Why not thank the US for turning over the Iraq table and creating all these merry organizations?

What `moral highground'? US exceptionism?

He probably does. The WASP in US do culturely blackmouth all asians, including Korean and Japanese and Viets. They did it openly in the past, less openly now but still do so. Mentally-split Chang just happened to be on the Chinese link. This arrogance is the reason you Japanese think the...

Nope. It isn't gonna happen before Russia officially cann't hold the region. Also a number of independent former republics will emerge. China's current attention is east&south-ward, in the opposite direction.

Being less evil than the spaniards doesn't mean it isn't evil. Don't misread.

Aye. Actually I partially agree with the author. The UofS only became `imperialistic' after becoming a superpower while the good old European `powers' were the other way round. Also the geographic isolation, puritan ideology and free market gave the US a longer adolescence, or... being a...

The Chinese government has recently issued a decree to replace all government/public use E-facility with national products. This INCLUDES the software in these facilities. Just wait and see. It will happen.

Don't worry, every Chinese easily finds the irony in "Thanksgiving" when he/she thinks about the "good Indian". Knowing does meaning appreciation. To be fair the Americans have been quite reserved about such things since it is also very non-PC in the States. One just needs to add a bit of pepper...

This isn't about xristian at all. Virtually nobody, except believers, know Xmas has a religious significance. It is just about some people feel unnerved at the commercialization of an alien festival. That isn't new. Many a literature gem in Tang dynasty China originated from "Hu" (mid-asian)...

Don't know how much Mongolia even care. They can simply move to the northern side of the deserts. But is a lot colder there, too.

Obviously you are quite wrong. The Orthodox church in Russia faired quite well. The accurate statement is the Chinese political environment does not tolerate religious interference. Wonder why Buddhism completely stays outside politics in China? Historically the Buddhists had been quite...

Chinese viewpoint about taking up a religion is to let go one's own right of judgement. I dissuade every (chinese) from adopting a faith. The central piece is that you are your own's master.

I remember Monroe once said about Americans' isolation with `honor'.

different standards. I define "thorough" by a complete economic and political wipe-out of the existing upper class. not some wannabe "buy out" that still leaves the dalits in the dust.

India could have been if India seized the opportunity during independence and made a thorough social & land reform. The caste indoctrinated and ethnically enforced vested interest groups are the reasons why India has not been.

Dynastic cycle works for (mostly) closed system while inner strife exceed external opportunity/threat. No now. Not any time soon. In the Chinese historical perspective, the world is at a stage that the different powers start to feel squeezed by the space on this world and will subsequently...