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resistance

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India's conflict with Pakistan makes this unlikely. While India can have good relations with Persians like Iran, it is unlikely this will happen with most Gulf Arabs aligned with Saudi Arabia.
Pakistan is not the factors anymore. Just see how gulfs Arabs doing increasing cooperation with India especially military. There are also IMEC corridor. Which indicates that gulf Arab doesn't care about Pakistan as benefits from India outweigh Pakistan.
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gelgoog

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Pakistan is not the factors anymore. Just see how gulfs Arabs doing increasing cooperation with India especially military. There are also IMEC corridor. Which indicates that gulf Arab doesn't care about Pakistan as benefits from India outweigh Pakistan.
This is pretty dumb when a lot of Gulf country air forces are composed of Pakistani pilots and the like.
 

resistance

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This is pretty dumb when a lot of Gulf country air forces are composed of Pakistani pilots and the like.
Imagine composed with many Pakistani but still go for a massive drill with India, no.1 enemies of Pakistan. Things has change a lot. Countries like Saudis and UAE will definitely choose a country of 1.4 billion with 2000 per Capita than 235 million with 1500 per Capita. Also there aren't direct dispute with India. Money talks louder.
 

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after landing in Guangzhou and being greeted by Wang Yi yesterday, To Lam is now meeting with Xi today and probably Li Qiang later.

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The two countries then signed documents on planning and feasibility studies for standardised railway routes, in what appears as a new step towards the upgrade of cross-border rail links, after
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on the matter were signed in December during Xi's state visit to Hanoi.
Other documents signed covered cooperation between central banks, media, health and the quarantine and inspection of coconuts, crocodiles and durians.
Lam arrived in China's southern province Guangzhou on Sunday for a three-day visit that would include meetings with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and other Chinese top officials.
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, he visited some Chinese locations where former President Ho Chi Minh conducted revolutionary activities.
 

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Crocodiles? WTF? OK I'd like to order 2 tonnes of coconuts, 1 tonne of durian and a couple of crocodiles please. And don't try and palm me off with any caiman or alligator, fully adult saltwater crocs only!

Crocodile farming is a very important source of revenue since the leather is highly prized for making boots and bags. If you are Cantonese chances are you also enjoy eating the meat.
 

taxiya

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And don't try and palm me off with any caiman or alligator, fully adult saltwater crocs only!
In Chinese and any languages influenced by Chinese (Vietnamese being one), there is no distinction of crocdile, alligator and caiman. All such animals are called 鳄鱼. When translating such animals to English, crocdile is the only word used. For example, the Chinese Alligator is called 扬子 literally Yantze River "Crocdile", while Siamese crocodile is called 暹罗鳄.
 

taxiya

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Is there anybody from Vietnam or South Korean who can answer a question regarding the Vietnamese and Korean names in Chinese characters? Both countries have abolished Chinese characters, people's names are all printed and written in alphabetic scripts. But it seems that their names when written in Chinese media are all real Chinese instead of transliteration or transcription. Do both countries maintain some kind of dictionary officially for this purpose? So when people need, such as the case of visiting Vietnamese president, they can give China their names in non-ambigious form?
 
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