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China sent aids to Viet during Viet War (2nd Indochina War), including weapons and manpower for building facilities / repairing roads. See wikipedia article on Vietnam War. (I'm not privileged to post links yet) the facilities and roads were used against China in 1979 war. when retreating from...

hunting endangered species is simply wrong, no excuses. whaling should be stopped, just like ivory trades.

good analysis. yes, indeed, EU leans towards US -- after all, neither Russia nor China can give EU security assurance as NATO does. that inevitably pushes Russia and China together, forming a bipolar world. many countries will choose side. swinging countries, like India, will benefit a lot...

trade-off. (compact) SUVs usually have better fuel economy and interior design than trucks, and larger space than sedans, making them good for everyday urban use.

what, so Viet should buy expensive US weapons and wage a war on China? what a plan Uncle Sam.

he would be a war criminal, if not assassinated. I don't see any good of memorizing a war criminal like Hitler.

well honest I think China has never been good at PR war. the west is much more experienced. I don't think that's a significant loss, though. like waging keyboard wars will change anything.

1. no one denies freedom for people to do what they want to do is important, and no one can know all the information to plan everything for everybody. I acknowledged that in my previous post. 2. no one denies the fact that too much centralized control can lead to disasters. in fact that's what...

logic please. by your logic today it belongs to China because it's called South China Sea. you are back to the pointless discussion again, after I explained myself why I believe that discussion is pointless ... I don't see anything I can get from this discussion and I should really stop replying.

in international relationships, countries act based on what they perceive as the best interest to them, not 'face'. this is the realism view, which is dominant in current international society. US has been a mixture of realism and idealism, which often causes problems for them. under the...

you are again talking about who's right, and I already said I think that's pointless. because as Vietnam can claim China invaded the islands, China can claim that Vietnam stole the islands when China was weak and now she's just taking things back. China claims administration over Paracels a...

I guess the policy makers start to realize that serious rule of law is essential to further economic growth. many problems -- pollution, corruption, mass incidents, etc -- root in the lack of rule of law. they clearly show the price. if rule of law is in place, China will become more...

the article already said it well. this hurts Intel more than China. I hope this is not a sign of US decision makers becoming more and more short-sighted.

you are mixing different concepts: 'commitment to long-term plans and their execution' vs 'planned economy and centralized control'. that's a common logical error people make. I very well acknowledge that planned economy and attempt to control everything in the society will inevitably fail, due...

that's your claim. we claim Vietnam steals from us. happy?

again, these maps do not mean more than the maps you showed before (in terms of its influence on what's going on). sovereign claims can only be valid under a system that recognizes such claims, just as property claims can only be valid under laws that recognize private properties. the current...

no need to judge. the lambo and helicopter are likely just for photograph.

economic sanctioning of China is not an option, at least for now. it'll hurt US economy since the two economies are so intertwined. and it'll hurt many other countries too (e.g. commodity exporting countries). growth of the world will be greatly affected, since China contributes most to the...

unfortunately there is no absolute 'justice' in the international society. the international order is first about balancing major powers, simply because otherwise the order itself will fall apart and nuclear war will destroy all of us. so, calling for help is no use when it comes to major...

the 9-dash line appeared in the 40s, after surveying the islands and sea. you do know that it was a period of time in history when a lot of countries emerged and a lot of borders changed through war. so those maps do not mean anything. by the same logic, if you find a Vietnam map around that...