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Originally posted by superdude
America is the greatest country ever on the faceof the planet.
Originally posted by plutonian
China has been a defensive nation, its empire is based on fair foreign diplomacies, so it would be strong, but not taking the place of USA which like to stick their nose into other's business.
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
Originally posted by plutonian
China has been a defensive nation, its empire is based on fair foreign diplomacies, so it would be strong, but not taking the place of USA which like to stick their nose into other's business.
Tell that to the people of Tibet, where does this myth of China as a defensive nation come from?
Originally posted by ahsingjai
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
Originally posted by plutonian
China has been a defensive nation, its empire is based on fair foreign diplomacies, so it would be strong, but not taking the place of USA which like to stick their nose into other's business.
Tell that to the people of Tibet, where does this myth of China as a defensive nation come from?
It's not myth and Tibet is not a country. It's part of China. Even the dalai lama acknowledges that.
Originally posted by taobo33
ok, in history tibet is part of chinese empire before the empire cracked down by old political system.
there r people who against china in tibet and people support it in tibet. both of them have their reasons and it looks fair true when u see those "reasons". who knows which is true or which is wrong? i mean the key point is: is the current chinese government doing the right things on tibet? tibet come from slavery social structure into communist social structure. if those lama rule tibert again what tibet people get is the same ole, cruel society and i think part of ht ereason dalai lama hate chinese government is because he can't be the "god" again in tibet.
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1. Cellphones
By any standard you can think of -- coverage, price, ubiquity -- China's cellphone practices beat ours. You can use them in elevators, subways and parking garages. They work in Tibet, at the Great Wall, in remotest rural China, which is more than you can say for Ontario cottage country. Patients, doctors, nurses and visitors use them in hospitals, too, with no apparent ill effects.
It's a cheap, pay-as-you-go system, with no stupid monthly contracts or credit checks. The phones are so cheap -- even sidewalk cabbage vendors have them -- that China is now the biggest cellphone market in the world. With 300 million in use, each one telling time, wristwatch sales have plummeted.
"We're a nation of thumbs," a young Shanghai woman told me, meaning that Chinese use cellphones like BlackBerries, text-messaging friends 24/7, at 1.6 cents a pop. The Chinese never got used to voicemail or answering machines; installing home phones was equivalent to two years pay in the 1980s, so the country leapfrogged over landline technology right into cellular.
Chinese author Qian Fuchang even plans to transmit a novel -- about an extramarital affair -- via text-messaging, one 70-word chapter at a time.
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6. Daily banking
We feel so lucky when a bank branch in Canada opens for a few hours on Saturday mornings. (Notice the long, long lines?) But Chinese banks are now open 9 to 5, seven days a week. Even on New Year's Day and other national holidays, at least some branches will open for business. The ones that are closed post helpful notices directing you to the closest open branch. And, yes, they do have a full network of ATMs.
Originally posted by sardion2000
China is already a World Power second only to the US. In fact their Middle class probably has a better standard of living than us North Americans. Here is an article to chew over for a bit...
The Tibetens were part of China during the Qing. The Dalai Lama acknowledged the Chinese emperor as his lord, but had self-admnistration. One country, two systems, like Scotland and England both being part of the UK but having different laws and systems. Some of the Tibeten claims are downright ludicrous. They claim that China committed genocide and killed 1 million Tibetans, when Tibet only had 1.2 million people in 1949. So where the fu-k are the mass graves? Shouldn't Tibet be an empty wasteland by now if 90% of the population were killed?