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'First/Second/Third world' is not a development term. It was a cold war term. 'High income' is a World Bank term. Their bar is measured in Gross National Income, "US$12,615 in 2012, calculated using the Atlas method". 'Gdp per capita' is yet another different measurement.

I do not have to. It is irrelevant to the point. Talking about dynasties over a thousand years after the creation of Imperial China, is not a rebuttal to the creation of Vietnam by Chinese. I suggest you improve your critical thinking skills if you cannot understand this. Actually it is such a...

This is Snowden's statement from Moscow. wikileaks. org /Statement-from-Edward-Snowden-in.html Can someone reconcile what the US has done diplomatically, with their claim Snowden has the rights of a US citizen? So all US citizens can get their passport revoked without conviction? Pursuing...

(classic, can't rebuttal, talk about Mongol/Manchu) No it cannot. In fact the Mongols and Manchu went out of their way to declare themselves to be legitimate successor rulers of China. Always dealt with other countries as China, never Mongolia or Manchuria. You know Mongol Yuan did not even last...

Actually Vietnamese is a Chinese creation. As mentioned before, both Trieu Da and even Thuc Phan were Chinese. Without China there is no Vietnam. No unified state, no writing, no culture. Vietnam was a province for 1000 years and a tributary state the rest of the time. Then a French colony...

If you look at the picture you would have known what the parameters were. It is specifically for the year 2011, the most recent year available. It is categorized based on the patent applicants ORIGIN. That is why there is Resident and Abroad. Yes, Russia's patent grants abroad is increasing...

I am unsure what you thought you were accomplishing by reposting the pictures from the video. As I have already shown everyone, your vaunted rankings came from 4th graders. Or am I mistaken and this forum finds that impressive and a worthy measurement? How on earth is the higher learning tier...

Again, your size comparison has no meaning at all. The 4 Asian Tiger label is about advanced high income economies. Russia is not included in any of these categories. If you want to talk about size, try to make top 5 biggest economy in the world first. Russia's education system is nowhere...

This video is remarkably pointless. The Four Asian Tigers label is about being developed economies, not the biggest economies. In terms of development, there already is a measurement called Human Development Index. Russia's ranking of like 55th is probably why people do not consider it...

Uyghurs are exactly where they originally were from. There is nowhere to go back to. The first people in Xinjiang were the Yuezhi (Tocharians), an Indo European people who died out. They were replaced by the Xiongnu (nomad). Since the Han Dynasty defeated the Xiongnu in the Han-Xiongnu War, the...

Put this into perspective with this fact, more than 1000 people have been killed in Iraq this month (May). The simple question that plagues my mind, is what on earth was America doing all this time. What was all the deaths, the casualties, the military spending for. I thought at the very least...

Uhhhh.....sure there buddy... Actually Cochinchina Campaign is the one you fought on your own and that was for Southern Vietnam. Which actually is a result of Cham conquest, for all of history Northern Vietnam was where the center of power in Vietnam was. For that area, the French fought...

As I said, I have no intention of discussing your imagination with you. So let's look at real life. In terms of "embargo", we can look at sanctions. Indeed China has been sanctioned and had tariffs placed on various cases by the US and Europe. First note that it has had no influence on...

If this is the level of this forums long time members then it is very sad. Instead of wasting time arguing about your fantasies, we would do better to simply look at actual events. The simple fact is the list of grievances America has about China (everything from copyright, to value of RMB, to...

Perhaps you should pay attention to your own Viet protests for evidence. Everything from the new demarcated land border to Battle for Paracel to Johnson Reef Skirmish. There has never been another group who constantly praise their own strength and constantly keep losing territory. It is...

That is a good example, it accurately reflects just how responsible Chinese were to the creation of what you call Vietnam. You should know, even the name itself is a Chinese term. Viet = Yue, taken from Bai Yue. A broad blanket term for basically everyone to the south at that time...

What terms are you specifically referring to?

There is nothing to obey. UNCLOS does not override existing claims first of all. Second, upon ratification China stated UNCLOS would not affect its claims in the South China Sea (Vietnam did as well). Third, EEZ is not a means to grab territory. Territorial waters is already a term and it...

Actually Vietnam itself was a Chinese creation since inception. Nanyue was a Qin General founded kingdom whose capital was in Guangdong. Nanyue conquered Au Lac, which was created by a Shu Prince who was first to unite the two Bai Yue Tribes who modern Vietnamese come from. As for...

Q1 growth is meaningless. It was not even annual growth. Let alone sustained year upon year. Oh yeah, I do believe Philippines just a few days ago was still trying to tell Chinese ships to leave the area. Meaning at best you turned away the straggling fishing boats (the rest of the 30 and the...