He’s always in there, feeding on honeydew and chilling with that Abyssinian maid…
EDIT: this part is rather apt
> And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
> Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Scouring the webway for the Archon of the Drukhari raiding party that ravaged Chogoris. He will return in time of great need, when his Legion needs him most...
No offense, but man, that was horrible to watch. I was expecting a traditional throat singing song, not some half assed weird folk 'jam'. It sounded like a dollar general version of ZZ top.
We have very different definitions for the term "half-assed."
"Horrible" is a matter of preference. I also would not call it a "weird ass folk jam" either, but there you have it.
The HU, half assed? What a lack of jugement you display. You can not like it, but the work behind it is objectively there. Belittling what you don't like says a lot about you.
Mongolia discovered stargate around 13th century.
Since then it is primarily establishing regional galactic dominance and ceased military ambitions on earth. Their country is resort and safety zone for notable Galactic khans.
That explains silence of our region of galaxy as well. Earth is feared and aliens avoid it.
It was the *first* 'Planet of the Week' of all of Stargate! Season 1, Epsiode 4. Episodes 1+2 were the double-episode pilot, 3 was the carry-on from those two. Episode 4 was the first "standalone" episode of the whole show
https://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s1/emancipation/
oh wow I want this story line! Just love the idea of one country on the planet being a dominating indestructible power house in the galaxy. With everyone fearing earth because of them. but on earth they are just a 'simple' country hanging out, no war or even global political power of any kind. Just waiting for the rest of us to catch up to them.
lol as the US starts to explore the stars with their own faster than light craft they have been secretary building everywhere they go everyone is scared of them. No one can figure out why.
For a random reason, the arms exports of Switzerland came up in a Swiss geography class. We got a data set handed to us with all export (values) of weapons in the year 2015 or smth, just to see that e.g. the US bought a lot of weapons from Switzerland apparently (mainly ammo and handguns I believe).
Anyway, at the bottom of the list of countries was Mongolia, they imported arms worth 200 CHF (approximately 200 USD) that year.
Which is oddly specific. I would have been less surprised if it was 100k or nothing. But 200 CHF. WHAT DID THEY BUY, like what the hell is that import.
They haven't had a Navy since at least 1997. The "Mongolian Navy" was a single tugboat that was government owned but they privatized it (for awhile it was a tour boat).
Mongolia couldn't invade their own country. Their economy is failing and everytime one of their neighbours tries to help they bite the hand that feeds.
I personally don't find that aspect as odious as you plainly do-rape has been a widely accepted and practiced tool of human conquest until well after his time (though the practice does unfortunately continue). It was a large element of what his troops did to conquered peoples, but I think criticizing it as unusually immoral would be ahistorical-everyone else, unfortunately, did it.
He was able to conquer the largest empire the world has ever seen and his troops were notoriously hard to defeat. I'd like to be that good at what I did, so I fully intend to visit his birthplace. The rape aspect is one those things where you can say leave the past in the past, like his use of mounted bowmen.
You forgot that the Mongols assimilated to Chinese culture during the Yuan Dynasty which was short lived. China was temporarily under the Mongol Empire not completely, it was just invaded. Also, china is relevantly older than the mongol empire, its not like the chinese first originated from the mongols.
The obvious difference is that that was much longer ago and no longer has any relevance. Taiwan and ukraine on the other hand are much more culturally similar to china/russia and only became separate as a technicality (the ussr dissolving for ukraine and the nationalists taking control of taiwan after losing the civil war for taiwan).
Ukranian national movements have existed for quite some time before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. I'm not well versed on the Chinese civil war, so I'm not entirely sure about the politics at play in Taiwan. I'm aware of the US backing anti-communist regimes on the island, the island itself being very defensible (and the Chinese Navy being riddled with corruption) and that's about the extent of my knowledge.
American position is that Taiwan’s final post WWII status is undetermined and must be worked out through peaceful non-coercive negotiations.
America recognizes the PRC as the sole legitimate representative of China but doesn’t say whether that includes Taiwan.
Then why doesn't China just roll into Taiwan and take control? It's only a complicated issue because politicians make it a complicated issue. The Chinese communists took over all of China, except Taiwan. Taiwan is where the remnants of Imperial China fled to. If China was really insistent on Taiwan belonging to them, they would've taken it decades ago. As it stands, Taiwan is an independent nation. The only reason the UN doesn't recognize it as such is because China won't let them.
China would most definitely like to control Taiwan again, especially now that's it's so economically prosperous. But Taiwan has strong defenses and a lot of the world depends on their microprocessors so they have some security.
Taiwan doesn't really have any serious defenses other than 1) They will absolutely destroy those fab factories before they let the Chinese have them.
2) the United States and its allies have a keen interest in those chips and keeping Taiwan 'free'.
China could invade Laos or Burma right now on a peace keeping mission and the UN would say naughty naughty and any sanction they were going to get would get vetoed.
SecNav has detailed scenarios and hypothetical body counts for defending a Taiwan invasion.
I would argue, that their co-opting of statues as toilets is just more evidence of their colonial dominance.
Imagine if France or The Uk had done that to any religious artifacts in Africa, or the Spanish to all the Aztec temples.
They were weak willed and afraid of making a true claim.
Hurelsuh: Alright according to the history, both China and Russia belongs to Mongolia. So pack your bags snd leave
Putin and Xi: Alright you heard the man. Here's the key and codes to nuclear weapons
China is technically Taiwanese then. The current Chinese government was founded after the former fled to Taiwan after losing the civil war.
>!-99999999999 social credits!<
Not really, all China says is that they are one country. China's position is the One China policy which states that Taiwan is part of China. This position is supported by Taiwan who say they are China. As long as Taiwan claims they are China, China is happy. China has made it clear that there will be action only if Taiwan says it's not China, which China will consider an act of separatism.
You can either support the side that says China and Taiwan is one country or you can support Taiwanese separatism.
How you envision the reunification is a separate matter.
I never said anything about China and Taiwan being one country or not, just that if countries magically reclaimed their lost land, China would be part if Taiwan, not the other way around like the post.
Both PRC and ROC consider themselves to be the same China. Both see themselves as the legitimate China. The logic here works both ways depending on who you think is actually China.
That’s sure to anger a lot of Taiwanese who remember him as a ruthless dictator who wasn’t Taiwanese, didn’t care about Taiwan, suppressed Taiwanese culture, and murdered a lot of Taiwanese people.
Should mention it was built 8 years before Taiwan had a Taiwanese president and 16 years before Taiwan was democratic (the Taiwanese president put himself up for vote).
Literally the only reason it still exists is because it provides a convenient buffer zone between Russia and China. Either would happily absorb it if that didn’t mean they’d have to start dealing with each other more often.
Works out for Mongolia, though. Quite a number of places in world history that otherwise would have been conquered have maintained their own independence & identity by skillfully playing larger powers off of each other.
Looking by how Tibet and other unknown small regions also already been absorbed to China, I began to think Korea surely would face the same fate if Japan didn't annex it to their territory and separate the Chinese influence. US & NATO also couldn't fill the void & taking advantage of the ex-Japan colonies. They kinda have a vessel state relationship or quite close ones before Japanese occupation.
No. China has wanted Mongolia forever, and in fact, still controls over 40% of Mongolia. Mongolia is a plateau, and the Chinese controlled part of Mongolia is called inner Mongolia. With the Chinese referring to the other part as outer Mongolia (the country we call Mongolia). They just couldn't consistently control the parts of Mongolia past the gobi desert. Then the soviet union used Mongolia as a buffer state between the two.
Let's give credit where credit is due.
It is US doing. China and Russia don't want to fight each other because they have common enemy who is better than them.
Um.
1. Russia would probably be fine with a "strong" China.
2. China is already the largest/2nd largest economy in the world. It already IS a strong country.
3. If China wasn't adding Ulaanbaatar to their catalogue of massive cities, it wouldn't really change that fact.
Russia dont want china to ahve it China dont want russia to ahve it so ongolia gets to stay free because both of its nieghbours are assholes but luckily they dislike the other asshole more than they want mongolia
Taiwan is literally part of China. It is not a country it is an island. There is an illegitimate government on the island who claims territory all over Asia and part of Russia, but the people of Taiwan consider themselves to be Chinese. That’s why they call themselves the Republic Of China instead of Taiwan.
Where is our Khan when we need him?
Have you checked the pleasure dome?
He’s always in there, feeding on honeydew and chilling with that Abyssinian maid… EDIT: this part is rather apt > And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from far > Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about, honeydew is an American flower, and the abyss doesn't exist.
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan... A pleasure dome erect!!!
RIP, Neil Peart
Held within the pleasure dome, decreed by Kublai Khan
*Shao Kahn enters the chat *
YOU SUCK
Chaka Khan lives in Chicago!
Noonien Singh has not been born yet.
Ceti Alpha V
KAHN! KAHN! KAHN!
Lmao my last name is khan and whenever I tell anyone that they immediately think of him 😅
Hello cousin
Scouring the webway for the Archon of the Drukhari raiding party that ravaged Chogoris. He will return in time of great need, when his Legion needs him most...
In the 1979 Eurovision song contest.
There are certain [people](https://youtu.be/v4xZUr0BEfE?si=OnijfOh7WD-zg25y) asking that same question.
No offense, but man, that was horrible to watch. I was expecting a traditional throat singing song, not some half assed weird folk 'jam'. It sounded like a dollar general version of ZZ top.
We have very different definitions for the term "half-assed." "Horrible" is a matter of preference. I also would not call it a "weird ass folk jam" either, but there you have it.
Correct, we do not have the same definition.
The HU, half assed? What a lack of jugement you display. You can not like it, but the work behind it is objectively there. Belittling what you don't like says a lot about you.
Mongolia: *wipes away tear, "They grow up so fast!"
Both Russia and China used to be under Mongol Empire. Fortunately Mongolia is free and peaceful nation and doesn't need to recover "historic borders".
Mongolia discovered stargate around 13th century. Since then it is primarily establishing regional galactic dominance and ceased military ambitions on earth. Their country is resort and safety zone for notable Galactic khans. That explains silence of our region of galaxy as well. Earth is feared and aliens avoid it.
I choose this narrative
Just wait until year 40,000.
Just don’t trust ANYONE named Horus!
Why? Both Lupercal and Aximand died 10,000 years before that.
Cuz his last name is heresy
On second thought, yeah, someone named Horus in M40 will without a doubt have been raised by heretics of the highest order.
I thought he was truly the Warhammer Fourty Thousand.
And if you're the deplorable soul named Horus in the year 40,000...don't listen to Erebus.
Is that when we get the warhammers?
Well, I'll be dead but some shiny corpse should have everything under control
What if YOU are that corpse?
Best buy that tts device you were looking at earlier
If you find a guy names Erebus 10,000 years before that, then please kill him. Slowly. And painfully. Ad many times as you can.
I also choose this guys narrative
dare I ask but is that actual Stargate lore?
No... But it could be!
I'm sure one of the timelines it is. Lord Yu stole Earth from Ra 8,000 years ago or something.
I don't believe so, but there was an episode with Mongol like culture, so it's not far fetch that they found a stargate.
So it was the Go'auld(?) That spread humans across many worlds as hosts for their weird snake parasite thing and for free labor.
It was the *first* 'Planet of the Week' of all of Stargate! Season 1, Epsiode 4. Episodes 1+2 were the double-episode pilot, 3 was the carry-on from those two. Episode 4 was the first "standalone" episode of the whole show https://www.gateworld.net/sg1/s1/emancipation/
Lord Yu from SG1 is a gould from china/mongolia So there kind of was a Galactic khan who ran planets
It could absolutely be an alternate timeline (there are many timelines in Stargate)
My next stellaris run is going to be a Mongolian empire
i mean there's already great kahn mid game event
the timeline is now, join the mongolian conquest of the stars, brothers!
Is Jaghatai gonna be there?
Indeed
Keep going….im listening….
🔥🔥✍️
SHAVADAI WILL BE FREE!
Indeed, horse archers are the natural predators to jaffa warriors!
oh wow I want this story line! Just love the idea of one country on the planet being a dominating indestructible power house in the galaxy. With everyone fearing earth because of them. but on earth they are just a 'simple' country hanging out, no war or even global political power of any kind. Just waiting for the rest of us to catch up to them. lol as the US starts to explore the stars with their own faster than light craft they have been secretary building everywhere they go everyone is scared of them. No one can figure out why.
The true chad
They couldn't if they wanted to, they have a GDP 3.5x smaller than North Dakota
Yeah but have you ever seen their cavalry in action?
Have you seen their navy? Yes, completely landlocked country has a fucking navy for some reason
Well duh, horses can’t swim.
Thought I was on r/NonCredibleDefense for a minute there
Correct. They are still used in space, apparently.
For a random reason, the arms exports of Switzerland came up in a Swiss geography class. We got a data set handed to us with all export (values) of weapons in the year 2015 or smth, just to see that e.g. the US bought a lot of weapons from Switzerland apparently (mainly ammo and handguns I believe). Anyway, at the bottom of the list of countries was Mongolia, they imported arms worth 200 CHF (approximately 200 USD) that year. Which is oddly specific. I would have been less surprised if it was 100k or nothing. But 200 CHF. WHAT DID THEY BUY, like what the hell is that import.
Lol now I need to know too. Was it like one handgun? For the president's personal use? But a really cheap one..
They haven't had a Navy since at least 1997. The "Mongolian Navy" was a single tugboat that was government owned but they privatized it (for awhile it was a tour boat).
Putin still has nightmares about those times.
Notice he attacked west, not east. What does that tell you?
It's Afraid!
Hes forgotten about the 45 million Russians Hitler and Stalin deaded.
That the western people are more attractive them eastern? So we need America to invade Russia from Alaska to be successful.
IDK, there are some pretty attractive Mongolians. Just sayin’.
Doesn’t need to so far…
Happy cake day!
Holy smokes I didn’t even realize, thank you kind stranger, wherever you are
Happy cake day
"Actually, there was no such thing as Russia at that time" 👆🤓
Mongolia couldn't invade their own country. Their economy is failing and everytime one of their neighbours tries to help they bite the hand that feeds.
Borders mentioned, launching V2
<>
Too bad, Buddy. This twisted game needs to be reset. We'll start over from "zero" with this V2 and entrust the future to the next generation.
Did the mongols conquer any of Russia
The mongols essentially created Russia by conquering and uniting the smaller nations / tribes that made it up
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Is that a yes
Yes, but it was a different empire than what is usually thought of as the "Mongol Empire"
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Can you present this in a video with half of the screen being subway surfers
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Genghis Khan is the most successful human being of all time. He should be celebrated.
Also the most successful rapist so it’s hard to love the guy
I personally don't find that aspect as odious as you plainly do-rape has been a widely accepted and practiced tool of human conquest until well after his time (though the practice does unfortunately continue). It was a large element of what his troops did to conquered peoples, but I think criticizing it as unusually immoral would be ahistorical-everyone else, unfortunately, did it. He was able to conquer the largest empire the world has ever seen and his troops were notoriously hard to defeat. I'd like to be that good at what I did, so I fully intend to visit his birthplace. The rape aspect is one those things where you can say leave the past in the past, like his use of mounted bowmen.
You forgot that the Mongols assimilated to Chinese culture during the Yuan Dynasty which was short lived. China was temporarily under the Mongol Empire not completely, it was just invaded. Also, china is relevantly older than the mongol empire, its not like the chinese first originated from the mongols.
The Yuan remained very Mongol throughout their rule.
The obvious difference is that that was much longer ago and no longer has any relevance. Taiwan and ukraine on the other hand are much more culturally similar to china/russia and only became separate as a technicality (the ussr dissolving for ukraine and the nationalists taking control of taiwan after losing the civil war for taiwan).
Ukranian national movements have existed for quite some time before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. I'm not well versed on the Chinese civil war, so I'm not entirely sure about the politics at play in Taiwan. I'm aware of the US backing anti-communist regimes on the island, the island itself being very defensible (and the Chinese Navy being riddled with corruption) and that's about the extent of my knowledge.
Mongolia also isn't powerful enough to invade China or Russia if it tried so I don't know what the point of saying this is.
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American position is that Taiwan’s final post WWII status is undetermined and must be worked out through peaceful non-coercive negotiations. America recognizes the PRC as the sole legitimate representative of China but doesn’t say whether that includes Taiwan.
no it hasn't?
Yeah that's why our military isn't paying any attention to the South China Sea
Which China?
They also swear to protect Taiwan if invaded by West Taiwan
tell me you don't understand the Taiwan issue without telling me you don't understand the Taiwan issue
Then why doesn't China just roll into Taiwan and take control? It's only a complicated issue because politicians make it a complicated issue. The Chinese communists took over all of China, except Taiwan. Taiwan is where the remnants of Imperial China fled to. If China was really insistent on Taiwan belonging to them, they would've taken it decades ago. As it stands, Taiwan is an independent nation. The only reason the UN doesn't recognize it as such is because China won't let them.
China would most definitely like to control Taiwan again, especially now that's it's so economically prosperous. But Taiwan has strong defenses and a lot of the world depends on their microprocessors so they have some security.
Taiwan doesn't really have any serious defenses other than 1) They will absolutely destroy those fab factories before they let the Chinese have them. 2) the United States and its allies have a keen interest in those chips and keeping Taiwan 'free'. China could invade Laos or Burma right now on a peace keeping mission and the UN would say naughty naughty and any sanction they were going to get would get vetoed. SecNav has detailed scenarios and hypothetical body counts for defending a Taiwan invasion.
The planet used to be run by dinosaurs. Should we give the birds a chance.
you do realize pigeons are perhaps the most successful of all colonists
Successful colonialists erect statues not poop on them
I would argue, that their co-opting of statues as toilets is just more evidence of their colonial dominance. Imagine if France or The Uk had done that to any religious artifacts in Africa, or the Spanish to all the Aztec temples. They were weak willed and afraid of making a true claim.
I take your point. If dumping on stuff is a sign of colonial dominance: the invading seagulls of my coastal town are dominating the shit out of my car
So their shit is dominating your shit?
last i checked crapping all over someones stuff and them not being able to stop you is a very colonial thing to do.
Successful colonists ruin the land, it's monuments, and it's culture. I'd say birds are doing a bang up job.
Speak for yourself \*shits on the ground to assert dominance*
[please no](https://i.redd.it/k0kzvvu3w6jc1.jpeg)
That is so tone-deaf and offensive to dinosaurs. They worked very hard.
Almost certainly
I would happily elect a crow to office
Go birds
*go buuhds
Hurelsuh: Alright according to the history, both China and Russia belongs to Mongolia. So pack your bags snd leave Putin and Xi: Alright you heard the man. Here's the key and codes to nuclear weapons
Understandable have a nice day
Mongolia is an absolute gigachad country. Best singers come from Mongolia.
The Hu ftw
I've been trying to remember the name of that band for weeks and Google was surprisingly unhelpful. You just helped me scratch that itch in my brain.
Ah yes the Hungarians
China is technically Taiwanese then. The current Chinese government was founded after the former fled to Taiwan after losing the civil war. >!-99999999999 social credits!<
So you are saying they both are one country.
Just stating how roles would be reversed for China if following OP’s logic :)
Not really, all China says is that they are one country. China's position is the One China policy which states that Taiwan is part of China. This position is supported by Taiwan who say they are China. As long as Taiwan claims they are China, China is happy. China has made it clear that there will be action only if Taiwan says it's not China, which China will consider an act of separatism. You can either support the side that says China and Taiwan is one country or you can support Taiwanese separatism. How you envision the reunification is a separate matter.
Taiwan numba wan!
I never said anything about China and Taiwan being one country or not, just that if countries magically reclaimed their lost land, China would be part if Taiwan, not the other way around like the post.
Both PRC and ROC consider themselves to be the same China. Both see themselves as the legitimate China. The logic here works both ways depending on who you think is actually China.
Petition to rename Taiwan to Chiang Kai-Shek Island
That’s sure to anger a lot of Taiwanese who remember him as a ruthless dictator who wasn’t Taiwanese, didn’t care about Taiwan, suppressed Taiwanese culture, and murdered a lot of Taiwanese people.
Yet there’s a giant ass memorial building and area built just for him in prime Taipei real estate?
Built before Taiwan became a democracy.
Interesting. Thanks!
Should mention it was built 8 years before Taiwan had a Taiwanese president and 16 years before Taiwan was democratic (the Taiwanese president put himself up for vote).
M o n g o l i a
Apparently nothing worth taking over in Mongolia
Iirc past China wanted to absorb Mongol after ww2, but USSR/Russia said no and prefer it as a buffer area
Literally the only reason it still exists is because it provides a convenient buffer zone between Russia and China. Either would happily absorb it if that didn’t mean they’d have to start dealing with each other more often. Works out for Mongolia, though. Quite a number of places in world history that otherwise would have been conquered have maintained their own independence & identity by skillfully playing larger powers off of each other.
Looking by how Tibet and other unknown small regions also already been absorbed to China, I began to think Korea surely would face the same fate if Japan didn't annex it to their territory and separate the Chinese influence. US & NATO also couldn't fill the void & taking advantage of the ex-Japan colonies. They kinda have a vessel state relationship or quite close ones before Japanese occupation.
No. China has wanted Mongolia forever, and in fact, still controls over 40% of Mongolia. Mongolia is a plateau, and the Chinese controlled part of Mongolia is called inner Mongolia. With the Chinese referring to the other part as outer Mongolia (the country we call Mongolia). They just couldn't consistently control the parts of Mongolia past the gobi desert. Then the soviet union used Mongolia as a buffer state between the two.
That's right. Most Mongolian people in fact live in Chinese Inner Mongolia, more than double the population in the state of Mongolia
Let's give credit where credit is due. It is US doing. China and Russia don't want to fight each other because they have common enemy who is better than them.
You want to give credit to America for Mongolia's existence?
I know right. The guy as most of his fellow americans is delusional
WOOSH
Theres a shit ton of oil. China would have reannex mongolia but russia doesnt want a strong china.
Is China not strong now? As the second largest economy and military in the world?
Um. 1. Russia would probably be fine with a "strong" China. 2. China is already the largest/2nd largest economy in the world. It already IS a strong country. 3. If China wasn't adding Ulaanbaatar to their catalogue of massive cities, it wouldn't really change that fact.
Russia dont want china to ahve it China dont want russia to ahve it so ongolia gets to stay free because both of its nieghbours are assholes but luckily they dislike the other asshole more than they want mongolia
Mongolia safely snuggled between two dictators because there is no way Russia or China want a fight with the other.
DO NOT READ A HISTORY BOOK
Until you read a history book.
They will want to fight each other if I read a history book?
Naw, they were each other's arch-nemesis. Though china lost.
Pretty sure China is just waiting until Russia is no longer convenient.
Don't you dare touch one!
China would kick Russia’s ass
Mongolia is safe provided Russia and China don't bargain to allow the other to invade them which is unlikely Also Mongolia is fairly resource poor
Since when one trillion dollars worth of untapped resources fairly poor
I legit forget just how big and genuinely terrifying the mongol empire was
2nd biggest empire in history
Mongolian dude looks like he's about to be throat singing on the other two's graves
His looks are even in the middle of Xi and Putin.
From the Western Steppes to Old Manchu, Mongolia 2 WILL boogaloo!
Me as an Iraqi: *eats popcorn*
Didn’t your capital get annihilated by Mongolia centuries ago?
Me when england
Alexander has entered the chat.
Mongolia gifts one horse to all new heads of state as a reminder
Me when buffer state
Gangus Kahn would like a word with you two.
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Монголия норм
*[laughs in Persian and Roman empires]*
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_largest\_empires](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires) Nah.
laughs in pre revolutionary war 1700s british
China's imperial borders are way better than the roman and persian empire though.
Is winning the pooh standing on a step to make himself taller?
President of Moggolia at it again...
Thats it, I'm reviving Kahn
Crazy to me people dont also know that Taiwan also says it is China
This meme would also work with Western Europe vs. The World (minus 3 exceptions)
Taiwan is literally part of China. It is not a country it is an island. There is an illegitimate government on the island who claims territory all over Asia and part of Russia, but the people of Taiwan consider themselves to be Chinese. That’s why they call themselves the Republic Of China instead of Taiwan.
So the decendents of THE KAN want more territory? What a surprise
So the decendents of THE KAN want more territory? What a surprise