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Toss up between Confucianism (300 BC) and Daoism (600 BC), both indigenous to China. Before them, ancient Chinese Mythology (as depicted in the epic novel Feng Shen Bang) going way back into the Bronze Age comprised of a myriad of Gods and Demigods but still with just one Celestial Emperor...

The Five-Year Question | Knowledge@Wharton Today A media storm of sorts was let loose this week by reports that China would overtake the U.S. as the world’s largest economy in 2016. In a column titled, “IMF Bombshell: Age of America Nears End,” a MarketWatch columnist noted that according...

And become a theocratic Christian nation? No thanks. That’s could risk another wave of Crusades and Inquisitions in the guise of economic and/or faith based cultural expansion backed by military actions. Many Emperors in China had subscribed to religions and faiths of their own...

I wasn't lecturing you or making a rebuttal or anything. Perhaps I should have used a smilie. We didn't give you the "White Man" thing, we just followed the brothers (I think). You wouldn't want to know what we gave you. ;) I don't find the word dude offensive personally but if my nephew or...

Oh no, can’t use the word lemon, it has a negative connotation reflected by the Lemon Laws commonly referred to in the USA. That’s way too defamatory. For Far East or Northeastern Asians, it may be acceptable if they are called the Early Sunrise Accented dudes. Don’t want...

PRC also has a tendancy to curtail scientific publications that they consider to have relevant military value. Do not know if that's being relaxed a bit.

BBC News - India army criticised over 'illegal' golf courses India's national auditor has criticised the armed forces for illegally running nearly 100 golf courses and sports clubs on government land. It says that the military is the country's largest land owner and has 97...

I thught Dyson name was familiar. The dual cyclone technology could be easily transported onto the DF-21D Carrier Killer missile. I am afraid the Ginsu knife secret has already been converted to PLA's bayonets. When the Brits and other Europeans roamed through India, Arabia and China and took...

For your review at leisure Sur. http://www.chinabusinessreview.com/public/1005/prc-government-chart.pdf There is also a two-term (5 year per) term limit for the top spots. 2012 will be the 3rd rotation. So there hasn't been a "dictatorship" in China since 1992 after Deng Xiaoping (who...

No one has any choice as to ones place of birth. But one can choose ones identity and affiliation; jus soli, or jus sanguinis. Citizenship is different than ethnic and national identity. The old Roman Empire sported many citizens of different ethnic and national origins. When it collapsed, it...

Chinese people are looking for closure and it takes two to do it. So are the Japanese but they were the aggressors against both China and the US so they need to start with acknowledgement and then a formal apology from their government to China. As far as with the US, that's between them but so...

The great civility that the Japanese people have demonstrated so far in this natural disaster has been truly commendable. But let’s not get too carried away extrapolating this aspect into military and economic behavioral patterns as the core virtue. You will open up a huge can of whoopass...

The Chinese spending as a % of GDP actually dropped in 2010 compared to 2005 while 6 out of 10 increased theirs. As far as US dominance in Asia, there is no arugment there. 32K US soldiers in Japan w/3 air bases, 14 Army, 30 some Navy ones, 30K US soldiers in S. Korea w/2 air bases, 20+ Army...

It's a facade makeover for Dalai. He will still lurk behind the scenes but won't bear the full brunt of criticism while receiving full credit on all "accolades". This move also leaves open for the option of "when his flock beckons", he can then re-emerge as Mr. Fix-it. Pretty savvy political...

Well, while it looks okay on paper but looking Northeast is where the ROI really lies in. All these countries are enjoying trade surpluses with China and therefore will be very hesitant in taking any actions that may cause shifts. The high speed railway network that China is spearheading om...

This was no coincidence or accident at all. He absolutely had ulterior motives. Here is Huntsman’s personal profile briefly. Wealthy Mormon origin from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) and formal governor of the State of Utah. Did his “Mission” as an LDS Elder in...

Need to start a thread on this? Just a private enterprise cleaning house. Happens everyday everywhere. Jack Ma the knife cut loose the evil doer's and Elvis has left the building. If India's private and public sectors are without sinners then yea it's a knock but you would wish India has...

Very apropos comment from TOI. vjie (singapore) 8 hrs ago (08:27 PM) Here is a man or a god in desperation. Once a land owner and a land lord over thousands of serfs, and now a long-term tenant dependent on Indian and CIA handouts, Dalai Lama has little choice but to speak gloriously of...

China has resolved all but six territorial disputes, South Tibet with India and those uninhibited islands off of Taiwan with Japan amongst them. The others all done very peacefully and in every case China conceded the bigger portion of the territory. Many to much smaller countries that China...

So evidently India had forgotten about her sufferings at the hands of Imperial Colonialism in the past for 300+ years and in 1976 Sikkim was annexed in the name of national interest by military force.