Comments by "D W" (@DW-op7ly) on "Asia Rising: Kishore Mahbubani's Bold Prediction for the 21st Century" video.

There is now a 27 book series on Chinese inventions called “Science and Civilization in China” that you need to read You can’t be a engineer and not know this history 👇 Science and Civilisation in China (1954–present) is an ongoing series of books about the history of science and technology in China published by Cambridge University Press. It was initiated and edited by British historian Joseph Needham (1900–1995). Needham was a well-respected scientist before undertaking this encyclopedia and was even responsible for the "S" in UNESCO.[1] To date there have been seven volumes in twenty-seven books. The series was on the Modern Library Board's 100 Best Nonfiction books of the 20th century.[2] Needham's work was the first of its kind to praise Chinese scientific contributions and provide their history and connection to global knowledge in contrast to eurocentric historiography.[3] Wikipedia
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With that Logic the Americans that the Philippines is asking for help should be going back to Europe and giving their lands back to the First Nations people And Sabah is 0.00 miles away from Malaysia So let’s see the Philippines give up its claim on Sabah
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How far is it from Philippines to Sabah? The distance between Philippines and Sabah is 1027 km. Rome2Rio
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Spratlys The Chinese were mapping and sending ships to and fishing from As early as 111 BC
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Why not look at he State of Israel after WWII We can argue all day about who was first to occupy that land But the fact of the matter is There were more Palestinians living on that land at the time the State of Israel was formed than any other people
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Btw…. Stop talking 9 dash line no one accepts it. We are talking the islands China has taken
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Why was China erased from Western memory Introduction Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West. Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery. Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery. Myth and Misrepresentation It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West. mysingaporenewsblogspot
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All I know is this, the worst that can be said of China is its Belt and Road infrastructure projects or its mining/mineral wealth comes from debt trap/diplomacy Well countries can choose to take those Chinese loans or choose not to take them Where the US/Western tactics Is to destabilize a Country, prop up a dictatorship, cause a war or go to war in that country
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Nice narrative by the Philippines but you did not make a claim to those disputed islands with China until the 1960s after oil was found Your best claim is a 15th century map by your Spanish colonizers which you readily agree to a map by a colonizer Yet the Chinese have a 12th century claim to those disputed islands As for bullying you dismiss Chinese historical claims on those disputed islands citing you are closer in proximity But when it comes to Malaysia you bully them over Sabah Making a historical claim When Sabah is clearly closer in proximity to Malaysia being attached to the country where the sea separates the closes land of the Philippines
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Nice narrative by the Philippines but you did not make a claim to those disputed islands with China until the 1960s after oil was found Your best claim is a 15th century map by your Spanish colonizers which you readily agree to a map by a colonizer Yet the Chinese have a 12th century claim to those disputed islands As for bullying you dismiss Chinese historical claims on those disputed islands citing you are closer in proximity But when it comes to Malaysia you bully them over Sabah Making a historical claim When Sabah is clearly closer in proximity to Malaysia being attached to the country where the sea separates the closes land of the Philippines
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How Malaysia ended up owing $15 billion to a sultan's heirs * KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Malaysia is scrambling to protect its assets as the descendants of the last sultan of the remote Philippine region of Sulu look to enforce a $15 billion arbitration award in a dispute over a colonial-era land deal. In 1878, two European colonists signed a deal with the sultan for the use of his territory in present-day Malaysia – an agreement that independent Malaysia honoured until 2013, paying the monarch's descendants about $1,000 a year. Now, 144 years later after the original deal, Malaysia is on the hook for the second largest arbitration award on record for stopping the payments after a bloody incursion by supporters of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam's heirs in which more than 50 people were killed. For years, Malaysia largely dismissed the claims but in July, two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries of state energy firm Petronas were served with a seizure notice to enforce the award that the heirs won in February. read more The arbitration ruling in France followed an eight-year legal effort by the heirs and $20 million in funds raised for them from unidentified third-party investors, according to interviews with main figures in the case and legal documents seen by Reuters. *Malaysia did not participate in nor recognise the arbitration - allowing the heirs to present their case without rebuttal - despite warnings that it would be dangerous to ignore the process. The claimants, including some retirees, are Filipino citizens leading middle-class lives, a far cry from their royal ancestors of the Sulu sultanate that once spanned rainforest-covered islands in the southern Philippines and parts of Borneo island. Reuters
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What I’m trying to say is let’s throw out the fact that Malaysia wins the proximity debate Considering the Philippines initiated a tribunal arguing Proximity At the very worse???? the Malaysians have an agreement to pay rent on Sabah for perpetuality Something they had been doing until Filipinos made that incursion in 2013 where lives were lost
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Like I said the Chinese made a historical claim to these islands in the 12th century The Philippines make a proximity claims to these islands in 1967 a few years after oil was found in the South China Sea If China were the American laaaap dogs of the region we would be having an entirely different discussion right now
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Btw the tribunal that the Philippines initiated Ruled that no one has exhibited continuous control over the disputed islands and water So all the countries like Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, including the Philippines /China Who have all taken control of islands and reefs have dug in And are probably saying talk to us in a few hundred years then Plus I think my logic is sound…. Because even though China has a proximity and historical claim on Taiwan I say tough sheeeeet to the Chinese because Long ago during their civil war even though this losing side ran to Taiwan. They now hold and control the island of Taiwan so tough sheeeeeet
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The Filipino claim in 1956 👇 China's Claim of Sovereignty over Spratly and Paracel Islands: A Historical and Legal Perspective Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law
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According to your logic those Palestinians, must be freedom fighters and it is their land. And Israel and the world that supports them, are the bad guys who made a 2000 year old historical claim over a modern claim Or you apply my tough sheeet logic to the equation Who ever holds this land now holds it. The other can try to take it back if they want
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