Domestic and international politics are very different but if anything China’s aggression enables the corruption in Philippines

Man you’re talking out of your ass. I’ve been visiting Vietnam for over 10 years now, I live in SEA and have many Vietnamese friends with whom we discuss world politics and here you are saying that Vietnam and China has no tensions in the South China Sea when that’s by far the #1 geopolitical issue in the region.

Not even going to entertain your walls of nonsense anymore as you’re just building strawmen and attacking me. Get lost troll.

Tell me why is war with China going to happen

Are you living under a rock or something? Vietnam’s number 1 security issue is China and nobody else.

I go to Vietnam at least once a year and Vietnam hates China as it’s really the only security challenge in the region. Cambodia and Laos are buffer zones that will never evolve into anything serious ever and other neighbours are an ocean away. To add, there’s a big cultural clash between Vietnamese and Chinese that is out of scope of this thread.

South-China Sea conflict is literally the biggest brewing issue in the region and you’d be an idiot to say otherwise.

Also bringing in WW2 and Vietnam-US war is so incredibly out of touch. Most Vietnamese have long forgotten the french and the americans and if anything got significantly closer to both than to China.

The jets there are 100% for south-china sea conflict hot or posturing. You think they will send them to fight US tarrifs? What are you even talking about. Again, a huge wall of utter rubbish.

what a big wall of absolute nonsense.

You could read the article and yes that’s the whole point that Vietnam will likely never receive the jets it’s just a way to take take Vietnamese tax payer’s money and use it to sponsor ruzis.

Vietnam owes Russia 8B for the deal -> instead of paying which would void sanctions, they join with ruzis to help them launder oil and gas -> ruzis launder 8B oil/gas profits through Vietnam -> Vietnam maybe gets the jets in several decades if ruzia doesn’t collapse.

Good, any religion for kids who don’t even have the slightest concept of their own mortality or metaphysics is uenthical and immoral, period.

But what would banning headscarves in daycare centers even achieve

it allows people to escape oppression? Religion has no place in day care centres, period.

I wonder how Vietnamese feel about their government basically giving 8 billion USD (2% of GDP) to Russia for something they will might not even get and if they do it’ll be inferrior tech to anything else. Su-35 has been a real failure in Ukraine war and widely considered to be objecftively worse than F-16V and Rafale fighters and China’s J-16s which Vietnamese SU-35s would be likely engaging and training for.

I did a bit of research of what are Vietnams fighter options for new class fighters:

• US F-16V - Vietnam already has deals for these and generally agreed that it’s the best option for them aside from unstable US needing to diversify here
• France’s Rafale - Vietnam and France already signed large defence deals and it’s a very good option here too.
• China - no deal at all given that China is the most likely future combatant here for these weapons.

So this seems like a blatant, inexcusable payment to the ruzzies which is such a shame to see. I hope they never see the planes and if they do they fall apart immediately together with the current ruzzi empire.

wait, he’s invited? Oh of course it’s invitation by Malaysian PM…

This is the way. Kyoto is incredibly rich and can easily afford to protect itself.

I’ve been there - it’s a small theme park made for tourists and it’s absolutely packed unless you go really early. It’s a shame that tourists act shit but it’s a basic probability if you allow such masses of people without seriously investing into infrastructure and protections.

There really isn’t anything exception about this issue and the rise of “tourists bad in Japan” is making me really think about alt-right propaganda machine kicking into gear in Japan.

Can’t say I’ve seen anything of sorts personally but I’m generally an average tourist. Loads of Chinese tourists as well that seem to be doing just fine.

I’ve heard of all sorts of stories about Japanese hate for tourists but Japan is huge and after visiting for years I’ve had only 1 discrimination experience.

I highly recommend visiting Kyoto despite these news. The city is absolutely beautiful and well worth the tourist tax. I hadn’t experience any prejudice there as a tourist and the local generally like foreigners.

You can also avoid the tax with a day trip as Kyoto is right next to Osaka which is quite cheap.

The overtourism issue is mostly entirely a skill issue as it’s free income that can be controlled through tourist taxes like this one. So this tax is fundamentally a good thing.

Nah Greece is not in the AI race or any tech race for that matter. The country is still in the year 2005 tech-wise, for better or worse.

You can check the mod log (link at the footer of the website) but it was “retards”.

The overime structure is very confusing here and correct me if im wrong but either way it doesn’t look good

I disagree - all of those are solvable if the core platform is free

The only way to sucdeed here is to legally force all phones to have unlocked bootloader.

Lmao imagine thinking that China doesn’t just disappear people they don’t like. China did what ICE is trying to do 30 years ago, America is still playing catch up.