It's a real shame that a country that colonized part of the globe (and was incompetent as a colonizer compared to the British) should have the same level of GDP per nominal capita as a divided country that industrialized and initiated spectacular growth over 60 years ago.
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- I’ve mentioned this before, the Japanese have eyes that look stern and zealous in their gaze. The Chinese mainlanders have wider set prey eyes and snub nose like blacks do. Always mouthbreathing as well.
- Having lived in Europe, I think that no white European has actually made anti-Asian towards me or Sinophobic remarks because an East Asian = Chinese. It was mainly descendants of immigrants from the Maghreb/black Africans who were the most virulent,It is the same immigrants whoI urge fellow native Asians out there who have favorable views of westerners to experience what life is really like in all these Anglophone and European countries to see how sinophobic and anti-Asian racist they are.
- Replying to @saber_k08636% of men in their twenties, the Korean right wing has been so cooked for too long
- Replying to @Arin_YumiEven a larping he is incapable of doing properly and be a minimum credible.
- During the Korean War, there was this strange rumor persistent, attested by testimonies and reports from the US army from South Korean soldiers, that a militia shaman existed on Mount Paektu. He was a dry old man dressed in skins, speaking a dialect completely incomprehensible
- Chiang Kai-shek explored secret contacts with the Soviet Union, to counter both PRC and American pressure. After the Sino-Soviet breakup of 1960,the ROC saw a strategic opportunity. In 1961, Taiwanese emissaries, operating via intermediaries in Hong Kong, approached SovietWhat the US and Chiang Kai-shek wanted out of each other from 1950 until Chiang's death in 1975 🧵
- Replying to @Arin_YumiThis is perhaps a turning point in the US/Japan relationship: the rejection of the post-trade rice deal and the revision of the National Security Strategy is the catalyst, Japan is reorienting itself towards greater autonomy.
- There are four points of comparison on points rarely mentioned when linking Chiang Kai-Shek and Charles De Gaulle : The first is the ethic of renunciation as a redemptive force. Both Chiang and de Gaulle embraced an ethic of renunciation, sacrificing personal ambitions and easy
- Replying to @ZionRapist88What's the point of being proud of what you've posted if your country still carries the scars of a calamitous colonial empire in terms of management to the detriment of your economy and the impoverishment of your people ? Lol.
- This isn't the statistic to be most proud of if I were Chinese tbh lol.🇨🇳China has overtaken the US and the UK as the top destination for English-speaking African students! It will be interesting to see the long-term downstream effects in their home countries. Hopefully they can dislodge neocolonial anglo elites.


















