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While it is all but certain now that any reunification of Taiwan by force will take the form of a blockade, I feel that the PLA should bomb the island anyway just out of spite for sh1t like this: Is it wrong to show Taiwan officers a WWII film about KMT forces fighting Japan? TAIWAN ARMY BRIGADE COMMA…

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Cailei No.2

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Why do people call People's Republic of China the fake China and call Taiwan the real China, when the communist beat the nationalists to the island fair and square?

There is a place in China where: They consider frivolous behavior as amusing; they consider vulgarity as openness; they consider decadence as progress; there are all sorts of strange temples and religious sites , and in these temples and religious sites you can even see striptease performances by wom…

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M.S. in Geography & History, Roskilde University (Graduated 2021)

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Why did Russia's absolutism become less effective in the late nineteenth century, culminating in defeat by Japan in 1905?

It wasn’t absolutism that was defeated by Japan in 1905, it was the Russian navy, which was to be frank, never that strong or experienced for obvious reasons. Even so, they put up a much better show than you might think. The Japanese navy only had to sail 900 km from Nakasaki to Port Arthur, the Rus…

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