China as a Super Power

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defaultuser1 said:
Kanji and English on that sign.:coffee:
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Good point.
Originally Posted by cn_habs
China is already a superpower minus the military mights but I doubt she can attract foreign talents the way the US can. Therefore, it's gonna be a huge task to overtake the US if she can accomplish it at all.
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Anti-immigrant sentiment, and anti-trade sentiment, is growing both in Europe and in the US, while China is seeking to attract foreigners. Either way, China already has more "science and technology personnel" than the US by a significant margin, and technological progress in China is only accelerating, as far as I can tell.
 
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China has convinced 5 countries not to attend the ceremony, while 16 other ocuntries have not replied past the deadline. A sign of China's growing influence? How many countries boycotted Dalai Lama's award ceremony?

Also, this line made me laugh:
"The bottom line is the Nobel Peace Prize has become another international battle ground."
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LOL, maybe if they stopped awarding the Prize to fifth columnists...
 
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ToxSic said:
um...
what is "fifth columnists"? what is a columnist?
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From wikipedia... "A fifth column is a group of people who clandestinely undermine a larger group such as a nation from within, to help an external enemy."

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My interpretation would be that if say China and the USA went to war with each other then all Chinese nationals in the US would potentially be China's fifth columnists and all US nationals in China would potentially be fifth columnists of the US.I think it applies to anyone willing to help an external enemy from within but the nationals of that enemy country would be top of the list for internment.
 
Mr T

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solarz said:
A sign of China's growing influence?
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No, because most of those countries are autocratic nations that would see someone like Liu Xiabao as a threat to them if he was from their countries (Iraq is borderline). It would only be significant if the list had included democratic countries that otherwise could have been expected to attend.

The number also included China - why on earth did they count themselves?! :D
 
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solarz said:
China has convinced 5 countries not to attend the ceremony, while 16 other ocuntries have not replied past the deadline. A sign of China's growing influence? How many countries boycotted Dalai Lama's award ceremony?
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Agreed with what you have said. But I believe that the main thing about those countries not going to attend might not just stamp from China's growing influence alone.

I have read some of what Liu Xiao Bo had written and presented... and seriously I would have slapped him right across his face if I had the chance. The most memorable one was that he suggested/ proposed that China should be colonise for 300 years (I think), seeing how Hong Kong is doing... this is what I would call the thoughts of a 奴才...

I mean... no matter what is the state of China... or any independent nation, it should never come to this thought. It is a traitrous thought... plus at China's present status as compared to say twenty years ago... isn't it better and better. I mean... even US and England, took hundreds of years to finally get to what they are today. Modern China only had fifty plus years... and after so much turmoil and stuff... and this supposedly nobel prize winner, would simply brush away all these efforts and said that it would be better that China was colonised for 300 years... I don't know about you guys... but any proud chinese would have slapped him across the face.
 
Finn McCool

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rhino123 said:
Agreed with what you have said. But I believe that the main thing about those countries not going to attend might not just stamp from China's growing influence alone.

I have read some of what Liu Xiao Bo had written and presented... and seriously I would have slapped him right across his face if I had the chance. The most memorable one was that he suggested/ proposed that China should be colonise for 300 years (I think), seeing how Hong Kong is doing... this is what I would call the thoughts of a 奴才...

I mean... no matter what is the state of China... or any independent nation, it should never come to this thought. It is a traitrous thought... plus at China's present status as compared to say twenty years ago... isn't it better and better. I mean... even US and England, took hundreds of years to finally get to what they are today. Modern China only had fifty plus years... and after so much turmoil and stuff... and this supposedly nobel prize winner, would simply brush away all these efforts and said that it would be better that China was colonised for 300 years... I don't know about you guys... but any proud chinese would have slapped him across the face.
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It's a dumb opinion to have yes but I don't think people should be imprisoned for having and expressing opinions.
 
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Finn McCool said:
It's a dumb opinion to have yes but I don't think people should be imprisoned for having and expressing opinions.
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It's not about him expressing his opinion, it's about punishing him for being the tool of political aggression via the Nobel Prize.
Liu is just one of people in China which we describe as 吃饱了撑的, it basically means they've got nothing better to do once they have a full stomach, they sit together and a lot 吹牛(polite way of saying BullS**tting), their ideas are essentially worthless.
If he is deserving of a Nobel Prize then they better set aside a few trillion for China cause are millions of Chinese who are more deserving of Nobel Prize than Liu.
 
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