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    Quote Originally Posted by iolo View Post
    At the time of the Industrial Revolution the Americans were desperately stealing ideas from the UK, the Strutts at Belper for example. Somehow they have forgotten! What a wonderfully honest system is capitalism!
    True but fortunately the Americans weren't burdened with a degenerate aristocracy and soon the students far excelled the teachers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    well said Jack!
    Thanks, noise. Glad there is a rising awareness to this. (Have to give credit to Trump for confronting the Chinese on this)

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    Quote Originally Posted by iolo View Post
    I know. No Trumpf, mainly.

    I don't like the American monopoly capitalist style much either, and I used to understand Chinese rather better than I now understand trumping!
    The Americans are spreading the Ideas, Customs, and Culture of their Parents ... Great Britain. So, if I were you, I wouldn't be complaining too much.
    The Chinese feel the West has 'humiliated' them for the last 100 years. Can you say "Opium War"?
    (Thanks iolo .... here's another fine mess you've gotten us into)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    The Americans are spreading the Ideas, Customs, and Culture of their Parents ... Great Britain. So, if I were you, I wouldn't be complaining too much.
    The Chinese feel the West has 'humiliated' them for the last 100 years. Can you say "Opium War"?
    (Thanks iolo .... here's another fine mess you've gotten us into)
    Out standing perspective on China - they really felt slighted being the "weak man of Asia"
    before the Communist revolution. Opium war is the classic example

    Keep up the good work, jack! .I'm impressed with your knowledge of the Kurds and the Chinese!

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    Sick man of Asia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Asia
    The phrase "sick man of Asia" or "sick man of East Asia" (Chinese Simplified: 东亚病夫, dong ya bing fu) originally referred to China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when it was riven by internal divisions and taken advantage of by the great powers. China was forced to sign a series of unequal treaties, culminating in the Japanese invasion of China during World War II. The phrase may be considered derogatory, as it mocks Chinese government and the Chinese people for being weak. The phrase was intended as a parallel to "sick man of Europe", referring to the weakening Ottoman Empire during the same period.[1] Like the "sick man of Europe" term, it has also been used to refer to numerous other Asian countries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by anatta View Post
    Out standing perspective on China - they really felt slighted being the "weak man of Asia"
    before the Communist revolution. Opium war is the classic example

    Keep up the good work, jack! .I'm impressed with your knowledge of the Kurds and the Chinese!




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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post



    (Keep telling me how impressed you are, and I'll keep giving you a 'Thanks' and a Big Thumb's Up)
    lol.."cheap thrills" huh?
    seriously you know more about the Chinese economy, and mindset than 90% of all Americans.

    You know more about the Kurds then I do.

    China had a real inferiority complex after eons of a complex empire.
    It still plays on their collective minds (making them x-tra arrogant. lol)
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    Quote Originally Posted by noise View Post
    lol.."cheap thrills" huh?
    seriously you know more about the Chinese economy, and mindset than 90% of all Americans.

    You know more about the Kurds then I do.

    China had a real inferiority complex after eons of a complex empire.
    It still plays on their collective minds (making them x-tra arrogant. lol)
    haha ...
    It's nice coming to a Politics Forum where we can all exchange views. We all have opinions. Mine's as valid as the next person's.
    I'm glad we both agree that China has future ambitions and that at one time it WAS an Empire.
    Nice talking to you, Noise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    There are just so many arrogant, ignorant and complacent people on here. Well maybe this might wake you lot up!!

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rpass-U-S.html
    As you have anything to do with the United states
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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    As you have anything to do with the United states
    So you are a Nationalist. Racist fuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Havana Moon View Post
    Sounds simple enough to me, indeed pretty damn obvious if you sit down and think it through.
    Really? All countries have the same density of population and the same resources per capita? It's a really unrealistic assumption/goal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iolo View Post
    They are a likeable people and it is a fascinating language. You suddenly against useful education?

    What likeable people might do

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    Quote Originally Posted by tinfoil View Post

    What likeable people might do
    In all fairness they could have put the tank in gear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mott the Hoople View Post
    True but fortunately the Americans weren't burdened with a degenerate aristocracy and soon the students far excelled the teachers.
    The thieves excelled the stolen-from in thieving. True.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    The Americans are spreading the Ideas, Customs, and Culture of their Parents ... Great Britain. So, if I were you, I wouldn't be complaining too much.
    The Chinese feel the West has 'humiliated' them for the last 100 years. Can you say "Opium War"?
    (Thanks iolo .... here's another fine mess you've gotten us into)

    The English regime that controlled - and still largely controls - the UK were exactly the right parents for American capitalism; barbarous thieves. I agree about the opium war. I am British, so I don't believe in the United Kingdom. Are we arguing about something?
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