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This is an intriguing piece of geographical trivia. I have a friend who has actually been down to Antarctica on scientific expeditions, and yet he probably does not know about Deception Island. The island is part of the Antarctic Special Protected Area (ASPA), so it is not owned by any particular cou…
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Despite current events, is there anything positive you can say about Russia?
I can regularly say something positive about any country, provided I know anything about them at all. No matter what Russia does, its history or culture doesn’t just disappear. Dostoevsky’s books doesn’t get erased, Tchaikovsky’s music is still played, you can still watch Eisenstein’s movies. So if…
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Is China designing any scheme for recovering the former Manchurian territory from Russia?
No! China has no such plan. The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation, signed in Moscow in July 2001 by President Jiang Zemin and President Vladimir Putin, reaffirmed territorial boundaries, theoretically meaning there is no sovereignty dispute between China and Russia. Un…
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Was the defeat near Moscow in 1941 a shock to Europe? Given that the entire economic might of continental Europe was supplying the Wehrmacht.
It was a shock to some in Europe, particularly the Germans, but indeed also to many people elsewhere. Most of Europe was occupied by fascism, and the press was controlled to minimize the the defeat at Moscow for a large part. Even in Britain which was allied to the USSR and could send reporters to t…
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With just one simple auto-translate function, Twitter did to Japan what the Great Translation Movement tried - and failed - to do to China. I've been saying this for years now, but once you look past all that kawaii shit and actually listen to what the Japanese themselves have to say, you'll come to…
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Japan Uncensored
With just one simple auto-translate function, Twitter did to Japan what the Great Translation Movement tried - and failed - to do to China. I've been saying this for years now, but once you look past all that kawaii shit and actually listen to what the Japanese themselves have to say, you'll come to…
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US NAVY’S BIGGEST TECHNICAL PROBLEM The US Navy, the “strongest navy in the world” has a problem that’s not often discussed: its ships have no modern anti-ship missile. In other words, the US Navy lacks the weapons to perform the most basic duty of any navy: sinking enemy warships. Currently, as of ea…
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What's behind Taiwan's decision not to adopt language reforms from mainland China? Is it mainly political, cultural, or something else?
Many friends in Taiwan and Hong Kong are unaware of this history. Objectively speaking, the direction of simplifying Chinese characters was absolutely correct! In fact, the foundational work on simplifying characters by the ROC government was completed before the establishment of the PRC government in…
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How would a socialist society work? Would we buy or confiscate all the businesses from the current owners and then distribute ownership to the workers? Or would the workers use their own resources to start businesses?
Practically speaking, the state can only manage things on a national scale which already have the infrastructure to be managed at a national scale, i.e. only the very big corporations could be effectively expropriated, although for some very developed countries that easily makes up the majority of t…
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What if China once attempted democracy, but the experiment failed?
China is already a democracy. The problem with many western views of democracy is that they have a weird obsession with party representation. They think that if you have an opinion, then the only way to express it is to form a political party. If you cannot form a p…
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