Well lets ask a reasonable question,
if the majority of the people say that the earth is rectangular, does it make it true?
The majority means nothing in terms of actual truths; as those are only different vantage points.
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Well lets ask a reasonable question,
if the majority of the people say that the earth is rectangular, does it make it true?
The majority means nothing in terms of actual truths; as those are only different vantage points.
Blackstone
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You know very well "rectangular" Earth is just a figure of speech. I suspect you're playing mind games, and it's not worth my time. No offense, and I know this is a public forum, but humor has its limits.
Blackstone
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Oh, I'd say the not for much longer "United" Kingdom might not take it kindly.
SamuraiBlue
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The problem with PR politics is that various check and balance mechanism is not working. General election is just one of them. Even if general election is adopted if there are no other political party beside the Communist party then there is limited meaning in initiating general election.
Basically China never accepted the principle of Magna Carta like most all other democratic states.
Basically China never accepted the principle of Magna Carta like most all other democratic states.
Blackstone
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What gain does Japan has by trying to prevent China from being the leader in Asia? The elite Japanese rulers knows very well they don't have the size and resources to take on China eventually so why bother? Why not adjust to the coming time and do with what they have instead by being a prosperous island nation?
Rivalries between nations aren't always logical, and there's so much bad blood between China and Japan that make clear thinking difficult. For example, is it logical for Japanese leaders to deny forcing women into sex slavery or to say Japan wasn't the aggressor in WW2? Facts are national pride often drive reason into hiding, and that goes for everyone.
Blackstone
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Your claim is completely wrong. The late Qing Empire proposed to institute a Constitutional Monarchy, but it was too little, too late to save them. Immediately after the Qing Dynasty, Nationalist China, under Sun Yat Sen, embraced democracy with an enumerated constitution and a republican form of government, but Imperial Japan invaded China and put an end to her nascent democratic government.
SamuraiBlue
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Nope is basically the same as what CCP is doing today.
Without an opposition party check and balance does not exist.
Like the saying goes "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
solarz
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Well, you know what they say about projecting your thoughts onto others...
It wouldn't surprise me if the Japanese really thought that way. After all, they were taught during WW2 that their invasion of China was an act of "self-defense".
solarz
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Actually, it was not the Japanese invasion that destroyed the ROC's nascent democratic movement. It was Yuan Shikai appointing himself emperor, and later Jiang Jieshi mass purging political opponents that destroyed any chance of a Chinese democracy.
Blackstone
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I said "nascent," meaning beginning to exist or develop.
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adjective
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beginning to exist or develop: the nascent republic.
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