Lone Candle
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Japan’s anti-foreigner political turn is resulting in greater difficulty to start a business there and gain permanent residency. The people’s anti-foreigner feelings may be driven by too many tourists who do not respect Japan’s conservative culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTz6DQJH1Og
Thailand built its huge tourism industry on US military bases and US military R and R during the Vietnam war. Young US military men spent far more than other tourists. Thailand was then able to turn this war-time tourism industry into a permanent industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jS7aV568IA
Odd Arne Westad: How the Past Shadows China’s Future | Foreign Affairs Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubdp8te6rd4
China has built a super carrier. They may also be building drone carriers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH3zue1Bqvc
China’s population could be lower than we think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTS38Ihqmtk
The Muslims defeating China led to Islam being prominent in Central Asia and to paper technology leaving China and changing the world due to captured paper makers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPegSsK3l5o
Societies that primarily grow rice rather than wheat tend to be more collectivist due to rice requiring more of a group effort.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGJxJcM8IE
China is a conquest and assimilation empire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYWTfoBSoIk
A group in Pakistan with ties to the Taliban attacked Pakistan and want to give Pakistani territories to Afghanistan. Afghanistan doesn’t recognize the current border, which was drawn by the British and separates ethnic groups. Afghanistan’s other borders also separate groups, including Persians from Persia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0X2rqzKTgM
China’s stranglehold on the supply of rare earths is damaging America’s ability to build military equipment and commercial cars. So far, Trump’s trade war on China is costly with little to no reward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXd0dTfc2Pk