Well if you go visit the prosperous coastal cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, you'll see that those areas are quite developed and there is an emergent middle class; go to the Xintiandi area of Shanghai and you might even think you were in a first world country complete with Zara...
No matter your political leanings, many here will probably agree that this is by far the WEIRDEST US presidential election season ever!
Associated Press/Canadian Press
Major update: Perhaps this 2nd carrier will actually be used by China to show the flag compared to her predecessor which was only used for training?
China's first indigenous aircraft carrier nearing completion
IHS Jane's 360 - 17 August 2016
Airbus Defence and Space imagery showing the Type...
Just a slight correction to what you said about the Philippines.
They're a predominantly Catholic country (95%) and the Muslim minority is largely confined to the southernmost island of Mindanao and nearby smaller islands.
Roman Catholicism is firmly rooted there because it was a Spanish...
Haters gonna hate. As usual.
When I was in graduate school at SFU, I had a number of classmates who were foreign students from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Whenever the Middle East was the topic, they would quickly dominate the discussion and endlessly rant about how Israel was "evil".
The...
Marshal Mannerheim and the Finns' experience with the Russians aside...
Meanwhile in the present day, a key figure within Putin's inner circle resigns and is transferred...
American Interest
Last week, the Philippines sent a special envoy to China, Fidel Ramos, a former president of the Philippines during the 1990s. Ramos is not only a former military general and a foreign graduate of West Point, but he also fought in the Korean War as a junior officer with the Philippine contingent...
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