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QuantumLight is AscendChina, he just quoted himself. Just saying.
@Bellum_Romanum Status symbols, I puke when I heard my friend children speak English when ask in Chinese and they are proud of it, since we're friends I told him that its improper and as parents should correct it, he gave a stare and was angry. Mind you we are both 1st generation Hua Qiao and his parents both came from China. I can't blame him maybe his parents are so busy that he was raise by one of their help or what we called as Yaya. But after that I always reminded my children to be themselves and not act like a BANANA.
Bro right on, but we need to establish our industry first. What we need is to open up our economy for competition, right now the oligarch hold a large sway of our economy, too many people vying for fewer jobs, that depressed our worker salary and bargaining power thus overseas job is attractive and prefer. But if we do open up, our growth development will accelerate cause we already had the manpower or software as we speak ready.
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@BrightFuture so I'm right , one of our owned had wrote such a fine article !!! bravo @quantumlight bravo you should write more.
@Equation Northern Vietnamese girls are beautiful especially in Hanoi.
That's one of the reasons why I am lamenting the sad fact that your current President can't run for another term due to the constraint placed by the constitution. If the candidate from that's opposed to much of Duterte's economic plans and achievements then whatever and however successful they may have been would just be derailed, disrupted, and or be destroyed to the point that even if or when the next president revives the Duterte plans it's pretty much like starting back from the bottom again. A sense of continuity of what works and revise or discard what doesn't but I am well aware that's not how your country's system works or operates which makes what I said in my prior point kind of moot.
@Bellum_Romanum Bro I'm happy that you had shown love and interest to my adopted country, MARAMING SALAMAT, But as a Filipino I always had faith in my countrymen to do the right thing and because of Duterte we're awake, that is his lasting legacy. And as a responsible leader I think I have an inkling who he will anoint. It will be BongBong Marcos Jr for President and her daughter Sarah Duterte for VP. It will be win win decision, her daughter will be given a presidential training until 2028 were she will assume the presidency.
Update on Iranian enrichment of uranium to 60%:
Also note that uranium enrichment is not linear: the difference between 5% and 20% is much larger (in terms of SWU output required) than the difference between 20% and 60% or 90% (weapons grade).
- Enrichment of uranium to 60% has been successful and is currently ongoing. First ever time Iran has enriched to such a high level.
- The time between the decision to enrich uranium to 60% to enrichment starting was only 24-36 hours.
- 9 grams of 60% enriched uranium is produced per hour (approx. 1.5kg per week).
- Enrichment at Natanz never stopped - only one hall (of old IR-1 centrifuges - that are all being replaced with more advanced models) was affected.
- Uranium is being enriched to 60% and 20% simultaneously (i.e. enrichment to 20% has not stopped).
- The main electrical supply to Natanz will be fully restored today (using emergency power source since the terrorist attack).
- The uranium enriched to 60% will be used in the Tehran Research Reactor to produce medical radioisotopes such as Technetium-99m. A €60m radio pharmaceutical centre has been announced and construction will start later this year.
Also note that uranium enrichment is not linear: the difference between 5% and 20% is much larger (in terms of SWU output required) than the difference between 20% and 60% or 90% (weapons grade).
Okay so the thing we have to remember is, the stupidity of Viet nationalists goes back further than this regime and can be seen before the Vietnam war, or even before the french.
VN broke off at the start of the Song dynasty more than 1000 years ago. Between then and now, the warlords who ruled Vietnam justified it by using the Chinese imperial title Huangdi (Hoang De in VN) when talking to their own people, but the lower title of a vassal king (wang) when dealing with China. They have always deceived their own people that "be proud that we live in a great empire". But according to Vietnamese military records, the rulers did not prepare defences on the China border unlike their other borders, which means they knew that China was not interested in them.
all Viets called China "the north" while some viet rulers called VN Middle Kingdom Zhong Guo (vn: Trung Quoc). These rulers called viets 'Han' 漢 (as if to say, the real Han Chinese) while calling China whatever the current dynasty name. for example, when they declared war on the Ming dynasty, they went further and called the Ming as Wu 呉, the name of the Ming when they started out as a provincial warlord, implying that the Ming is not really China.
Although they don't claim to be China any more because that's too ridiculous, every ruler has used this double dealing approach to make the people feel important while having peace with China. it's now part of their culture after 1000 years. This is the problem when you have a country that is at least half Chinese by blood and culture. it's like that evil sibling who sues their siblings for more inheritance. also, if we let Taiwan carry on this is what's going to happen.
Whenever I discuss about Southeast Asian geopolitics I always pretend VN doesn't exist because their mental problem is too deeply embedded. like for the Kunming-Singapore railway, just bypass VN. China should not invest in them because I know that they're not grateful at all, they just say that China wants to take over them. in fact if we pretend they are invisible, it's likely to make them less hostile because they cannot claim that China wants to take over.
from what I understand, only the Viets minority nationalities like cham, Khmer or highland people are not Chinese. the majority nationality (Kinh), north and south, clearly have typical Chinese surnames. remember that the Kinh only started colonising south vietnam around the 1500s and conquered the modern Saigon area from Cambodia around 1700s, they hate the locals and the locals hate them so they dont have enough generations to mingle. but that's a bad thing, because the cham and khmer tend to be more friendly to Chinese.
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Familiarity breeds contempt. If someone is a foreigner or an outsider it is easier to disregard them but the more similar you are with someone, the more often you tend to hate them when they go astray from your thinking. Moreover, if you come from a smaller tribal identity, you feel that you must constantly need to differentiate yourself from other groups similar to you or you risk being swallowed up. Kind of like the Irish vs English, Korea vs Japan or Sunni vs Shia.