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	Opinion Home   皇冠体育app   World   Cartoon   Readers' Voice     Forum Columnists     Laugk Chaiman Wchao37 Freeman Yapchongyee		Forum Columnist - Chairman   皇冠体育app's lost twenty years! For twenty years, schools and universities were shut down by Mao Zedong's failed Great Leap Forward, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Why a big 皇冠体育app defeated by smaller states? From a historical perspective, the Chinese were never a martial nation. So what about Russia and Vietnam? The Sino-Vietnam War was in 1979. On Chinese chauvinism and need to keep open door policy Chinese culture is secular and tolerant. At her peak in the Tang dynasty (618-907), 皇冠体育app absorbed foreign culture at an accelerated rate, this phenomenon being influenced by as many as more than 10,000 merchants coming from as far as Rome living in the ancient capital of Xian. A misconception about 皇冠体育app's increased defence budget Among the East Asian states, 皇冠体育app has the greatest economic potential. Currently it is the second largest economy (measuring by Purchasing Power Parity) and in fifty years will surpass the US. America is in no danger of attack from 皇冠体育app It makes me wonder why would 皇冠体育app perceive the US as the eventual enemy, as claimed by many American hawks? America is separated from 皇冠体育app by the Pacific Ocean and is in no danger of attacks from a 皇冠体育app that places the military least of its four modernizations. The US and 皇冠体育app are neither friends nor foes An American perception of 皇冠体育app as intransigent and belligerent needs some scrutiny. 皇冠体育app is inflexible when it is asked to abide by rules it has no part in writing.