We can argue till the cows come home. Stalin died with 7-8 years of end of WW2. What he built didn't even last 40 years. A comparison to a 200 year + British Empire or even older empires is moot.
Please read my post again. We were discussing how manufacturing always moves to places where its cost effective and how things WERE made in Japan then. Is this simple enough to understand?
Can't comment on the Communist world but in the democratic, civilized world - Sony, JVC, Panasonic, Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, Nintendo, Super Mario Bros, Sega, Mitsubishi, Gameboy etc. ruled the roost.
Balochistan is not East Pakistan in the sense that even if the majority is alienated and desires independence, the geographical contiguity with rest of Chinese/Punjabi Pakistan ensures a supply chain. Plus Balochistan is not as densely populated as East Pak so even if one takes into account the...
Lol. Yes, it showed him. Not liking an answer seems to be an automatic segue to whataboutery.
What happened to the erstwhile Soviet Union? It doesn't even exist on the map anymore. Stalin's USSR is gone.
When push comes to shove, the democratic civilized world has had to pool their resources to stand upto and take on brutal regimes - Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and now Xi. Nothing new in this.
Unlike GM which brought rubbish into India, Ford genuinely tried to crack the Indian market. They had some fantastic products - it's a shame they never quite got it right at the right time.
For decades, Pakistan pursued a policy of supporting the Afghan Taliban while cracking down on the Pakistani Taliban, the Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP). With the Taliban in power in Afghanistan, Islamabad may have won its “long game”. But its game of chicken may be backfiring with jihadists coming...
Sportspeople have been switching nationalities for decades. Lendl, Navratilova became Americans. Recently Alexandre Bublik became Georgian. Kevin Pietersen switched from South Africa to England. Lots of African athletes compete for Middle Eastern countries. What's the fuss?
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A Nepalese government report leaked to the BBC accuses China of encroaching into Nepal along the two countries' shared border.
It is the first time there have been official claims from Nepal of Chinese interference in its territory.
The report...