To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (10702 ) 10/17/2006 11:48:53 AM From: Richnorth Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 37540 North Korean domination of China? LOL!!! For your info, the Koreans were Chinese to begin with a very long time ago! And the Chinese helped the North Koreans to fight the US and its allies to a stalemate in the Korean War (1950-1953). By the way, using to great advantage their superior military weapons, western imperialists had tried to dominate China in the 1800s and early 1900s but they failed miserably! Why? For one thing, the country was too big to swallow! For another, the Chinese have a long history of civilisation! That is, a civilisation that predates western culture by at least two thousand years! China is a country with strong underpinnings in learning and culture!!! A lot of my Chinese friends, young and old, told me that many westerners felt inferior soon after they began to study the history and culture of China. Even no less a figure than Napoleon once remarked, "When the Chinese Dragon awakes from its slumber, watch out!" The US is definitely watching out! Beneath a facade of friendly relations with China, the US has been overtly and surreptitiously trying to emasculate China. The US has forged military alliances with countries on China's borders, and is also attempting to destabilise Central Asia by fomenting dissension there. The US is likely to instigate Taiwan into declaring independence in order to start a war against China. It might interest you to know that while the western world was persecuting Jews since ancient times, China was very kind to them. An ancient Chinese emperor allowed Jews to settle in Kaifeng. Today, rock inscriptions and stone tablets and synagogue ruins bear testimony of that Jewish presence. Again, in the 1930s and 1940s, China allowed Jews to seek sanctuary in Shanghai when no western country would accept them! However, most of the Jews left China after the war for New York, western USA and for Australia. It was just as well they did because the China was then caught in the maelstrom of its Civil War. . .