The key is not to get mad. You are here to learn something and to exchange an opinion. Why succumb to provocation?
Threads like this are honey for trolling bees, whether the hindustanis who never feel secure, or the viets who feel aggrieved (rightly or wrongly).
Just ignore them. Don't...
I don't know why this otherwise sane, lively, and educational forum tolerates the "ostensibly PRC" trolls or false flaggers like SinoChallenger, a member of species that wouldn't survive on any reasonable Chinese forums.
Yet he is allowed to "thrive" here.
Well so be it, PDF.
Probably. I wouldn't be surprised. Even Ben Ali has families here and Qaddafi's family had connections, too.
Well same page or not, might as well get off your uncalled-for high horse on the "princelings" and shed your unfounded high hopes about "tuanpai".
... long list of irrelevancy over the larger scheme of thing, although I'll single out the last two:
Utter disgrace if you ask me.
BTW did you grow taller with that long list?
As I said, there is no need to compile a billion excuses to "encourage" others to learn Chinese.
I can never understand why the grandiose youth in the PRC derive oomph from people's desire to learn or not learn Chinese. Delusion and false flagging are never in short supply these days.
Frankly anyone who cares to think it through knows it is a huge advantage to keep the language to one's...
You have a point - only up to a point.
Gold in the hands of the Inca translated into neither wealth nor "power", while coal and iron in the hands of the English led to Empire (though not necessarily "desirable") and victories (for a time anyway).
Now did you ask yourself why the Princelings...