It's not just India, China has border disputes with 18 countries. Here's the list
- Japan — Parts of South China Sea particularly Senkaku Islands, Ryukyu Islands are claimed by Japan and both countries are at loggerheads with this boundary issue
- Vietnam — China claims large parts of Vietnam on historical precedent (Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644). Also, Macclesfield Bank, Paracel Islands, parts of the South China Sea and the Spratly Islands.
- India — China occupies 38,000 sq km Indian territory that goes by the name Aksai Chin. It also stakes claim on Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh. It was this expansionist policy that led to the recent clashes between the PLA and the Indian Army.
- Nepal — China claims parts of Nepal dating back to the Sino-Nepalese War in 1788-1792. China claims they are part of Tibet, therefore part of China.
- North Korea — Baekdu Mountain and Jiandao. China has also on occasion claimed all of North Korea on historical grounds (Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368).
- The Philippines — Parts of the South China Sea are contested between the two countries. The Philippines took this to the International Court of Justice, where they won the case but Chinese did not abide by the order of the ICJ.
- Russia — 160,000 square kilometers still unilaterally claimed by China, despite China signing several agreements.
- Singapore — Parts of the South China Sea are contested by both countries.
- South Korea — Parts of the East China Sea. China has also on occasion claimed all of South Korea on historical grounds (Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368).
- Bhutan — Bhutanese enclaves in Tibet, namely Cherkip Gompa, Dho, Dungmar, Gesur, Gezon, Itse Gompa, Khochar, Nyanri, Ringung, Sanmar, Tarchen and Zuthulphuk. Also Kula Kangri and mountainous areas to the west of this peak, plus the western Haa District of Bhutan.
- Taiwan — China claims all of Taiwan, but particular disputes are Macclesfi eld Bank, Paracel Islands, Scarborough Shoal, parts of the South China Sea and the Spratly Islands. The Paracel Islands, also called Xisha Islands in Vietnamese, is a group of islands in the South China Sea whose sovereignty is disputed among China, Taiwan and Vietnam disputes with Burma.
- Laos — China claims large areas of Laos on historical precedent (China's Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368).
- Brunei — Over Spratly Islands.
- Tajikistan — Chinese claims based on historical precedent (Qing Dynasty, 1644-1912).
- Cambodia — China has, on occasion, claimed parts of Cambodia on historical precedent (China's Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644).
- Indonesia — Parts of the South China Sea.
- Malaysia — Over Parts of the South China Sea, particularly the Spratly Islands.
- Mongolia — China claims all of Mongolia on historical precedent (Yuan Dynasty, 1271-1368). In fact, Mongolia, under Genghis Khan, occupied China.
TL;DR -
Well that's not very neighborly.
Disgusted, but not surprisedChina just has the biggest entitlement complex doesn't it?
By their logic, China should be part of Mongolia
"Enshittification truly is how platforms die"-Cory DoctorowProbably count the Yuan Dynasty as a Chinese dynasty therefore Mongolia=China.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkelehttps://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2021/01/120_303343.html
Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung has sent letter to the UN and (the US) Congress to support South Koreans laws against sending anti-NK propaganda through balloons.
He's against the criticism and says its needed to protect people living in the border towns.
I'm not really into the idea of limiting freedom of speech to appease North Korea, but from what I've heard, the groups involved tend to be on the fringe side of the North Korean defector community, so *shrugs*
The Lunar New Year period can be stressful for children, so the Taiwanese Ministry of Health's spokesdog, Zongchai, has a few tips for caregivers:
- Respect children's body: Don't force them to accept unwanted pats and kisses, especially during a pandemic.
- Don't force them to say hello: They might be anxious or feeling unwell, and calling them impolite doesn't help one bit.
- Don't compare them to other children in a humiliating manner.
- Don't tease them out of hand: Making kids cry or upset for grown-ups' amusement isn't nice.
Oh wow those hit pretty close to home for child me.
Edited by M84 on Feb 1st 2021 at 7:50:46 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedYeah, those are felt around the world. Young children often fill a role in the family that's between person and pet.
No one:
Absolutely no one:
My dumb bish brain, bored on the train: Hehehe Kang Kyung-hwa fancam
Anyway, because the world is curséd: QAnon Is Alive and Well in Japan.
Her account boasted more than 80,000 followers at its peak, and while those numbers were almost certainly inflated by fake accounts, Okabayashi’s influence on the burgeoning Japanese movement is indisputable. While QAnon is believed to have found traction in over 70 countries, Japan hosts “one of its most active networks outside the U.S.,” according to Bloomberg. This popularity is in large part due to Okabayashi’s efforts, which have enabled the Trump-centric conspiracy to adopt local features, acquiring broader appeal.
The components of QArmyJapanFlynn are too numerous to list but include: the eponymous idolization of Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor; the suspicion that the Japanese government was infiltrated by ethnic Koreans; the claim that the imperial family was replaced by body doubles; and the assertion that both the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Fukushima disaster were elaborate cover-up operations.
Racial and gender issues have also merged with the QAnon stream, as seen in the United States. Okabayashi told Bloomberg News that she “was convinced that a country that does not allow women in their twenties of childbearing age to focus on childbirth and child rearing will eventually die.” (Despite recent gains, Japan remains behind its international peers in gender equality.) Okabayashi expressed xenophobic sentiment, and like other Trump supporters, presumably embraces his harsh, anti-Chinese rhetoric. She is also a product of her time.
When Trump’s crass charisma and shameless penchant for lying merged with the unprecedented fear caused by the pandemic, a perfect storm developed. Millions of people were forced to isolate at home, alone with the internet. Easy access to fringe outlets provided an on-ramp for radicalization. These conditions exacerbated resentment toward the privileged elite, or jokyu kokumin in Japanese, and intensified the storm.
“I see this group as being quite similar to the Aum Shinrikyo cult back in the early 1990s,” Jun Okumura, a visiting researcher for the Meiji Institute for Global Affairs, told DW. “It appears that a small minority of people have their minds wired to accept these outlandish theories in spite of all the evidence and knowledge that is put directly in front of them,” Okumura explained.
Okumura is not the only person to draw a connection between QAnon and Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult behind the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin gas attack. Matt Alt, writing for The New Yorker in September last year, presciently used the analogy as a cautionary tale. Shoko Egawa, a professor of cross-cultural studies at Kanagawa University, further echoed the parallel after the Capitol siege on January 6. The similarities between the two movements are uncanny.
Five years before the Tokyo subway attack, the charismatic, egomaniacal leader of Aum Shinrikyo, Shoko Asahara, ran for public office. Like Trump in 2020, Asahara lost that election but refused to concede, falsely claiming voter fraud. Asahara’s dangerous cult was ignored by mainstream society, but aided by the power of the nascent internet, Aum Shinrikyo fostered grievance and resentment while amassing power and increasing membership. Eventually, Asahara declared war against the “world shadow government” and instigated the attack on the subway system.
QAnon, just like Aum Shinrikyo before it, is a pseudo-religious terrorist cult. It must be taken seriously. The crackdown on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other websites is a promising start. Without the amplification provided by lax social media platforms, the staying power of QAnon, particularly in Japan, is an open question. The Twitter account for Okabayashi has been locked since January 21, probably indefinitely. Okabayashi’s revenue stream from Patreon, a crowdfunding website, has also been cut off.
While it’s doubtful that practitioners of QAnon will go quietly into the night (experts worry that adherents could foment vaccine skepticism), without the spotlight of social media, they will at least be relegated to bumbling around in the dark.
The University of Vienna is offering free language courses in Classical Mongolian and Chagatai for its summer semester, for those who'd like to read The Secret History of the Mongols or the Baburnama in their original languages.
Echoing hymn of my fellow passerine | Art blog (under construction)Ah, Mongolia. One East Asian country that I keep forgetting that it actually exists. XP
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Everyone forgets Mongolia. That's probably one of the reasons it's managed to avoid a lot of the dysfunction of East Asia.
Not all of it, of course. The CCP is actively trying to erase the Mongolian culture in their own borders.
Edited by M84 on Feb 3rd 2021 at 11:17:05 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedMaybe that's exactly why people forget about it: somewhere that's just doing alright, thank you very much doesn't lend itself to many interesting headlines.
Well, up until 1990, everyone just treated it as de facto Soviet territory.
Echoing hymn of my fellow passerine | Art blog (under construction)Yoshiro Mori, the head of the Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee is in hot water because he said that women talk too much in meetings. While discussing plans to increase the number of women on the board of the Japanese Olympic Committee to 40% from 20%, he said “If you increase the number of women, you have to some extent limit the time for their remarks, otherwise you’ll run into trouble because it will never end." He said women are so competitive that if one speaks, then others feel like they have to as well. Mori said that he might have to resign.
"Enshittification truly is how platforms die"-Cory DoctorowAnd nothing of value will have been lost.
There's a reason this guy left office with an approval rating in the single digits.
Disgusted, but not surprisedUpdate: Mori refuses to resign.
"Enshittification truly is how platforms die"-Cory DoctorowSomehow I'm not surprised.
Disgusted, but not surprisedBut would you say that you're disgusted?
Echoing hymn of my fellow passerine | Art blog (under construction)Kind of. It shows how his previous comments were basically him trying to paint himself as the victim due to people being angry at his misogyny.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Hell, even for Korean politics, this is really offensive. And Korean politics, as with politics in every country, can get really childish and offensive.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.