Comments by "神州 Shenzhou" (@Shenzhou.) on "CaspianReport"
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Why you claim China has territorial conflicts with all our neighbors? China has settled boundary dispute approximately of 20,000 km with 12 countries out of the 22,000 km and is yet to settle about 2,000 km of boundary involving India and Bhutan.
-In 1961, Nepal and China signed border agreement.
-In 1962, Mongolia and China signed border agreement.
-In 1963, Afghanistan and China signed border agreement.
-In 1963, Pakistan and China signed border agreement.
-In 1991, USSR and China signed Sino-Soviet border agreement.
-In 1992, Laos and China signed border agreement.
-In 1994, Kazakhstan and China signed border agreement.
As for Bhutan and India, China has 21 talks with Bhutan and 19 talks with India but still fail to settle our countries borders.
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There are many competent people in China yes, but still, you can't have all of them leading the country now can you? The government has many ongoing 5-year plans, 10-year plans, 15-year plans, 20-year plans, etc to chart out out China's future and to achieve specific goals in 2020, 2025, 2030, 2035, 2040, 2050, etc, so China needs a strong hand at the helm to see these long-term plans to fruition
But Western government such as USA, only have short term plans, because their presidential term is 4-8 years only. So at the most, the leaders can only make plans that expire after 8 years, because there is no guarantee that they'll be in power to see long term plans through. As for rebellion to remove a leader, USA has also done it before by invading Middle East and cutting off the country's heads like Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. Next on the list appears to be the Assad Regime.
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+Standardowy Login "They can read 2200 year old documents."
Some Chinese people can read books like The Analects of Confucius 论语 and Sun Zi's The Art of War 孙子兵法 written 2200 years ago directly. But can English people actually read Shakespeare's work written in Shakespearean English? Whether in "Times New Roman" or not?
" 'as Italian, French, German etc or simply European, not Roman.' When Chinese effectively discriminate against Chinese from their other provinces, this difference in strength of common identity is not so strong."
Chinese may discriminate against Chinese from other provinces, but the difference is not as potent, as say the English and the French sense of national identity.
Name change may matter so much to Europeans, but not to Chinese. Why Chinese care about Europeans who used to call themselves emperors and then changing it?
Within the Roman Empire, Christianity was banned and Christians were punished for many years. Feeding Christians to the lions was seen as entertainment in Ancient Rome.
And like it or not, Latin is considered by many scholars and linguists to be a dead language, since it is no longer alive and 'evolving' or being spoken natively by anyone.
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@hadenali3714 The Ottoman Empire is no longer around today, whereas China has survived the violent passage of history to the modern day relatively intact. Chinese territories still consists of Tibet, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, North China, South China, Hainan Islands, etc. Whereas Roman/Ottoman empire has fragmented into different independent countries like United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, etc.
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amanrehan manzer About corruption, China and India are not that far apart yes, but at least under President Xi Jinping guidance, the government is cracking down on internal corruption in the communist party. But is India actually doing anything about tackling its corruption problems?
And every businessman knows that there is always risk involved and possible failure in doing business. You can't possibly expect every business venture to always succeed, and given a large number of transactions in Belt and Road Initiative, there will be bound to be some that did not turn up quite so well. That is the natural and unavoidable part of the consequence of doing business that's all.
You talk about 'infrastructure' like its something unwanted, but 'infrastructure' was what led to China's development and growth in the first place. In African countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Angola, etc, China is building infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, schools, hotels, hospitals, powerstations, shopping centers, football stadiums and telecommunication projects. China has done much to develop Africa in decades, compared to what Westerners did in Africa for centuries.
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You do not support US interventions, but it is clear that USA is attempting to spread democracy in Middle East by disposing of dictators like Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. But what happened to those countries after their leader was gone? They became US puppets in the end. Now the USA is targeting the Assad Regime, then what do you think will happen if Assad is gone? Won't Syria become another US puppet as well, following this pattern?
As for the chemical weapons, those are just unconfirmed rumors, just like when USA invaded Iraq on suspicions of harboring WMDs, even though no WMDs was ever found after the Iraq war. So why you still think Syria has chemical weapons, when its obviously just an excuse for US to intervene?
I mean, USA has history of spreading democracy, just like Soviet Union with communism, yet you are skeptical of China when the government says that our system is not for export?
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The Chinese government have put forward many 5-year plan, 10-year plan, 15-year plan, 20-year plan, and so on, to map out China's future and to set specific goals to achieve by 2020, 2030, 2040, 2050, etc. This whole Belt and Road Initiative is expected to take many decades (if not a century) to complete and requires great planning and foresight to pull off.
But the problem with the West is that they only plan short-term (such as 4-8 years for USA) because there is no guarantee that their government will remain in power for more than a decade, so they make short-term plans that expire once their term is over. Their long term plans get disrupted, such as when Obama planned the Trans Pacific Partnership for 8 years, but when Trump came to power, he cancelled the TPP, simply because Trump didn't like Obama (Obama humiliated him with his birth certificate).
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Deren Bong Short-sighted view? Chinese government has made 10-year plans, 15-year plans, 20-year plans to achieve specific objectives in 2020, 2025, 2030, 2040, etc so how is that shortsighted? What about USA only able to plan for 4-8 years because the presidential term limits their long term planning?
If you look at history, in most societies, political power is held in the hands of the few elites, such as the nobles (aristocracy), the priests (theocracy), the kings and emperors (monarchy). This is because such people are qualified to make important political decisions regarding the future of the country. That's why such systems are common throughout history, because apparently they worked. Why have you people so against authoritarian regimes then?
I read elsewhere that you are a Malaysian. but look at your neighbor Singapore. Singapore was under a dictator Lee Kuan Yew, who showed no mercy to his political enemies and ruled with an iron fist. But he transformed Singapore from poor fishing village nation into a 1st world country. So who is the short-sighted one here?
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Deren Bong Chinese workers help build infrastructure like roads, railways, highways, schools, hotels, hospitals, shopping centers, football stadiums, powerstations, and telecommunication projects in African countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Angola, etc, so how is that not empowering the African people? With the recent growth and economic improvement, more Africans students are returning to Africa after studies abroad in order to bring their skills and industry home.
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+Leroy Jenkins Japan is bound by 1945 WW2 surrender treaty never to declare war against another country, except in self defense. Besides China has North Korea to defend against South Korea and Japan, and unlike those countries, NK is a nuclear capable country.
US mainland is difficult to invade, but China has worlds longest range ICBM, the DF-41, with an operational range betweem 12,000 KM and 15,00 KM, surpassing the range of the US LGM-30 Minuteman which has a reported range of 13,000 km. Here is a video animation of the DF-41.
Video:China missile tests DF-41 launch from railroad train youtube.com/watch?v=h2kjMctT8yU
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The government have always welcomed Indian to join onboard the Belt and Road Initiative, but if New Delhi refuses then Beijing still respects its decision.
Going with Chinese labor is more efficient, because Chinese workers have experience building infrastructure, than local labour. For example, in the Pakistan Economic Corridor project, China imports Chinese workers and building materials like cement, because Pakistan doesn't have enough engineers and lacks the cement production capacity. Pakistan is planning to double cement production and its universities are training more engineers, so that in the future, they can eventually take over Chinese engineers and cement supply once they are capable of it themselves.
In the meantime, Pakistan is still getting infrastructure built by Chinese, while it is working to train enough manpower to take over the projects in the future.
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James Stepp So according to your source, how did USA help China to join WTO at all? President Clinton was the one opposing China's joining the WTO during its founding, so what sort of "help" is this, other than furthering US's own interests?
If you do not trust Chinese government, then you can't expect Chinese to trust your government. Who are you to interfere in other countries' affairs about whether they choose to be authoritarian or not? If China follows our own system, then its our own system after all. China is currently peaceful and not at war with any country, since our last major war in 1979, but America fought wars at halfway across the globe, such as Gulf War, Iraq War, Afghan War, Libyan war, even in the 21st century.
America wants to defend "freedom of navigation"? The USA does not even ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea at all, so why is USA claiming "freedom of navigation" when it is not even party to UNCLOS?
If China doesn't buy US debt, then how do you expect USA to handle its debts then? Western media like Fox News and CNN constantly paint China as the enemy, talking about pontential war scenario with China and going to trade war with China, whereas Chinese media like CGTN and New China TV talk about promoting peaceful cooperation with the West and how both Chinese and Western government system can both exist in the world. So which country is demonizing the other here? Even President Trump just unilaterally slap tariffs on steel and aluminum, without even going through the proper WTO channels at all here.
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Tibet was part of China since 800 years ago, when the Mongolians conquered both Tibet and Song Dynasty China, and made them part of Yuan dynasty China. Even the Manchus did the same thing, making Tibet, East Turkestan, Mongolia, and even their own home of Manchuria, all part of China today.
If you want to take Genghis Khan and the Manchu leaders to international court, then you are free to do so. Otherwise, Tibet is recognized as autonomous region of China, just like Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Manchuria by UN countries, which is why the Map of China is drawn like that.
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