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  1. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    When stuff broke they backed up a bit tried again. They finally called it quits when funding dried up after the USSR collapsed.
  2. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    Says the man who is part of said military. Yes, a strong military is good. However, the US military has never passed an audit. https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2022/12/the-bridge-the-pentagon-cant-keep-track-of-its-money...
  3. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    They don't even need to base it on gold or silver. If the only legal currency in country 'A' is the 'Asswipe' you can bet your bottom dollar that foreigners will line up to pay good money for 'Asswipes' when they want something which can only be purchased by giving the seller as many 'Asswipes'...
  4. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    The Japanese were part of the Eight-Nation Alliance which said "Hello!" to China in 1900. The other 7: - The British Empire - The United States - France - Russia - Germany - Austria-Hungary - Italy That was not a group of peoples which would have easily set aside all their differences and...
  5. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    Only a century? Ha! The Japanese have been politely and not-so politely telling the Chinese to go fuck themselves for over 1400 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ono_no_Imoko
  6. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    People tend to forget that the Han Chinese often act as if everything belongs to them and that they're just graciously letting you borrow some of it for the time being.
  7. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    Being a Catholic in China today is probably similar to what my Japanese Catholic ancestors faced during the Edo Period: You better be a damn good member of the Samurai Class (Communist Party in today's China) or the powers-that-be will persecute and eliminate you.
  8. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    China is in the midst of a slow-motion collapse which will not be pretty because their rulers are doubling down in ways which are and will make things much worse because they want absolute control and demand absolute loyalty.
  9. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    There's a bunch of people in my area who drive decked out Dodge Chargers which sorta look like the ones the Police and Sheriffs use with all sorts of decorations on them. There's one which has police antennas and is plastered with Hello Kitty decals. Sanrio is everywhere and that might be an...
  10. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    The Chinese will just redenominate the worthless Yuan and call it someting else while rendering the Yuan not even worth the paper it's printed on. The Anglo-Saxon pound, and many of the curriencies derived from it like the US dollar and British pound sterling, have never been declared worthless.
  11. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    If you poke too hard you might get an angry dragon instead of a sleepy dog. During the 80s "drop the fish" might have resulted in about 40 torpedoes that really want to give a propeller an explosive hug being in the water within seconds.
  12. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    There's a reason why China's neighbours tend to dislike the Chinese with lots of viterol. When the USSR was aiding North Vietnam the Chinese stole most of the aid sent by rail. The Soviets essentially said "fuck this shit" and started sending stuff to North Vietnam by ship because the worst...
  13. bintananth

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    If you were to play a variation of "The Kevin Bacon Game" where the goal is to go as far back as you can through a path starting with you which only consists of people who have personally met I can get to Alexander the Great's father and part of the path includes an Egyptian dynasty. I'd be...
  14. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    *snerk* My username is a slight misspelling of Ramesses II eldest daughter's name: Bintanath.
  15. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    Greatness isn't "look at what we have, isn't it impressive?". It's "we did not surrender".
  16. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    Their government and society is nowhere close to being as stable as San Marino's. That's a constitutional republic which was founded in 301AD and their current constitution was written in 1600AD.
  17. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    That's like saying the Crips are better neighbours than the Bloods ... You'd much prefer the Mafia as a next door neighbour to either gang.
  18. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    China has a long history of not being a good neighbour and Taiwain used to be a part of Imperial Japan (see: Formosa). They're basically the HOA Karen of East Asia: no one likes her but has to put up with her because there will be no end to the bitching and screaming if she doesn't mostly get...
  19. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    Imperial Japan had the right idea: "Fuck China" but went about in a way that managed to irritate practically everyone else who also didn't like or trust the Chinese.
  20. bintananth

    China ChiCom News Thread

    Germany did defeat Russia during WWI. The 1917 peace treaty had borders which weren't too different from some of the 1942 WWII frontlines.
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