I swear unanimous appreciation of china was a pretty common sentiment and now I'm consistently seeing upbeared comments about how china isn't and never was a socialist state, and how actually their use of markets is as bad if not worse than america. What's going on? IDK what to think or what side I'm on here but it just seems like opinions fundamentally changed so quickly, it's weird.
let’s not be too hasty here, the methods used for quantifying land area are subject to many discrepancies based on how accurate the measurements are. Struggle session on geography inbound?
Coastlines are infinite and those "square kilometers" are empty CMV
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not to mention the Republic of China (ROC) (traditional Chinese: 臺灣/台灣; simplified Chinese: 台湾; pinyin: Táiwān), inofficially Taiwan, which is a country in East Asia. Neighbouring countries include Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. ROC is a member of the World Trade Organization, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Asian Development Bank under various names. The official name of the country is the "Republic of China"; it has also been known under various names throughout its existence. Shortly after the ROC's establishment in 1912, while it was still located on the Chinese mainland, the government used the short form "China" (Zhōngguó (中國)) to refer to itself, which derives from zhōng ("central" or "middle") and guó ("state, nation-state"), a term which also developed under the Zhou dynasty in reference to its royal demesne, and the name was then applied to the area around Luoyi (present-day Luoyang) during the Eastern Zhou and then to China's Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state during the Qing era.