Should have made him listen to English instead?
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Emotional damage... poor thing.
Honestly, a lot of "languages" in Europe are just made up by nationalism, not really based on linguistic standard. They are just dialects of one language. Problem is that those dialect speakers hate one another so much so that they want to erase their past.
Ukraine/Russian/Belarussian are three dialects of the same language. The other examples are Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Icelandic/Norwegian/Swedish/Danish. The difference among them are loan words from different sources, such as Ukrainian got more from Polish due to Polish rule, Croatian got more from German due to Hubsburg rule, Serbian got more from Russian and Greek due to the church.
He is like all the Wanwans who don't speak Chinese but "Taiwanese".
The only reason there is territorial conflict between China and India is because of the legacy of British imperialism, specifically the Simla Accords that gave "South Tibet" to India. "South Tibet" was never part of the Mughal Empire. The vast majority of the native population was and still is Sino-Tibetan. The Indians' claim to the region are weak since there was no unified Indian state that controlled it - not the Mughals, not the Mauryans, not the Guptas.
This is not to say China's claim to it is strong, either. But it wouldn't have been a problem - and might even have become an independent buffer state - if not for the British who annexed it to their Indian colony and then insisted that China respect the new border. After India's independence, it was also the West that encouraged and promoted this version of the borders. So once again, we have a case of the West being responsible for modern conflicts.
Another tense stand off in the SCS between China and the Philippines. And we are wondering why a small, weaker country like PH are granting the US more bases.
While its generally accepted that the A10 platform is outdated for a modern battle fields with effective AA measures, but the GUA-8 fires a 30mm depleted uranium round (PGU-14/B) with 55mm-75mm of penetration, which is generally effective against the roof armor of most tanks without ERA protection. So it's not entirely correct too dismissive of the gun itself.
manqiangrexue
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Getting your order of events mixed up. The recent hostilities are because the Philippines has invited the American military so now China has to show them that they stand only to lose if they think that the US will keep China down in Asia. Without this, China can be generous and discuss any issues. Now, China can only treat them with hostility.
It's not terrible; when the Philippines acts friendly, we cannot take anything from them; we must show our goodwill and generosity towards our small neighbors. But when they act like this, we can actually take territories from them, expand them, turn them into Chinese bases, and then when the next guy comes in and acts very friendly to China, we don't give them back; we just stop expanding. That way, the net result is that as the Philippines, like many democracies, shifts back and forth doing a net longterm zero, Chinese territories don't; they just expand.
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Not like the Sudanese were going to let them back in after the stunt they pulled a couple days ago by landing British troops without permission. They basically blockaded an airport for half a day to all the other foreign nations lmao.