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Islam is just a religion. Its not intrinsically directed towards violence nor peace. Same goes for all the other Abrahamic religions.

Well, thats one of those big 'ifs' in history; without Chinese participation, Korea would have certainly perished; but even with Chinese participation, Korea had to fend for itself as the Ming tended to be snotty and had divisions when it came to battlefield strategy. We wanted every inch of...

Anonymous Pentecostal view:The Greek Orthodox has always been bitter about its misgivings and talk about the heretics who view theology as speculation(insert Thomas Aquinas and the Scholastics). But Ive also been under the impression that ordinary Catholics have no understanding of why there...

Either both of you need a chill pill or a sarcasm button.

Well said. I completely agree to that summary. Um lets say...for example, Chiang during his term in office, had a grand total of 32 (?) positions to work on; this ranged from managing military affairs, mayor of Chongqing, principal to managing national civilian traffic. Another problem of...

Spammy. Trolling. Moderater's gonna come over and close the thread if no constructive debate goes on here I think.

I didn't say that had to do with anything... All I'm saying is Generalissimo made many enemies, and had few friends, and that shows how incompetent he is as a leader. Coming back to the Soviet hostage problem, I dont understand either why being held hostage had any real meaning to it...

Welcome to Civfanatics mate. Where you from?

Oops, didnt see Hongwu in that list. So you're acknowledging that the Yuan Dynasty wasnt Chinese?:eek::eek: If so, congratulations, cuz most Chinese are still under the impression it is. Politicans = Leaders. Both Chiang and Mao were good at manipulating which qualifies as politicians...

Why isnt Guangwu Emperor of Eastern Han, Liu Bang of Western Han, Zhu Yuanzhang of Ming, Kublai Khan of Yuan, Cao Cao of Wei, Sima Zhao of Western Jin in the options? These guys are much more credible as leaders than some of the leaders listed as options above. The regional troops under KMT...

Well if you look more closely into Japanese history, you would also find various other peoples, such as the Kumamoto, Hayato, the Ainu, Chinese settlers, etc. Basically Japan is a huge mix of peoples from surrounding areas, with Koreans and CHinese being the majority. Samgusaki, Nihon Shoki...

I forgot the sarcasm button.

Sun Yat-sen by far.

It was fought on our land. Of course we were. The Choson Navy did wonders due to the Japanese being overconfident about themselves; where the Choson Army couldnt do much with its half-guerilla forces; the Korean soldiers were second-rate soldiers compared to Ming soldiers in terms of training...

I'm not quite sure what you are suggesting there, but China could argue that Goguryeo, which roughly covers present day Manchuria and North Korea was part of Chinese history and use that plus humanitarian concerns to occupy the country. As I said elsewhere here in the thread, it was in some...

Christianity spread in three consecutive waves: first was the introduction of Catholicism and the abrupt persecution of it by Daewongun of Choson (Regent of Gojong when he was young); American (Presbyterian and Episcopalians), Anglican and Australian missionaries coming into the country, amongst...

Time of change for China means a change where people regain their independent consciousness and work for change, itstead of being reluctant puppets of the CCP, I would say. One would belief/faith to change anything of higher magnitude than material needs. From my own experience, China doesnt...

Hah Ill try to contribute something here :) Are you suggesting that class divisions are always neccessary if not inevitable in societies as economic relations are a subset of power relations, which in turn service different people's interests?

Phht...and Im going back to this country to study soon. Please dont let any more riots happen, cuz this looks like the right catalyst for another one.

Well. What we all need is a Communist Revolution to get into a new phase of human history.:crazyeye::crazyeye::crazyeye: Or we could ask the Pope to create a Christian Socialist World govenment, where everybody would love each other as creations of God and bring a New Jeruselam as Revelations...