*Breaking News* North Korea fires artillery on S. Korean island!

[palepainter]

Amen to that. I would be willing to be that there would be little partisan resistance as well.

[Irving]

China's never invaded another country in it's history. I will admit, modern China is nothing like itself even two decades earlier, so it's a different ballgame, but just a side note.

Some will argue that they invaded Tibet. Not me though, I've never studied it.

[Anton]

China's never invaded another country in it's history. I will admit, modern China is nothing like itself even two decades earlier, so it's a different ballgame, but just a side note.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
Communist China also helped North Korea invade South Korea...

[Not_A_Llama]

China's never invaded another country in it's history. I will admit, modern China is nothing like itself even two decades earlier, so it's a different ballgame, but just a side note.

This is a joke, right? Tibet, Vietnam, India, Korea, and (kinda)Xinjiang come to mind just offhand, and those are in the last (half)century by the PRC.

If anything, modern China is remarkably dove-ish. Most of the above have been hit at least 2-3 times by China, historically. China's just now starting to shake off the damage from the Manchu invasion, western attempts at colonialism, a crippling civil war, and the retarding effects of communism.

The majority of what we call "China" today is subjugated and subsumed land and people. The "provinces" you see today are the remnants of full countries that were taken over in the past. China views countries like Vietnam, the Koreas, Mongolia, Laos, Thailand, Nepal, and Burma in the exact same way: future provinces. I don't have much doubt that's those countries' eventual fate. What you see in Tibet today has been going on for millennia.

PS: Little exercise... compare the size of Chinese provinces with the size of neighboring countries, especially to the south. Designed for easy digestion.

[Irving]

This is a joke, right? Tibet, Vietnam, India, Korea, and Xinjiang come to mind just offhand, and those are in the last (half)century.

No, it is very common to be taught in history classes that China has never invaded another country.

[ChunkyMonkey]

China's never invaded another country in it's history. I will admit, modern China is nothing like itself even two decades earlier, so it's a different ballgame, but just a side note.

China is a western term since the 16th century. Chung Kuo, the term the Chinese uses for itself means 'Central Power' or 'Central Country.' The term itself is a very accurate two word description of what China all about the past 4000 years - "To conquer the neighboring kingdoms/states within the Central power."

Many minorities within China do not consider themselves Chinese as they were annexed by the Han. Tibetan, Minor Mongolians, Dihua, etc etc.

Tibet, Vietnam, India, South Korea, and few others were invaded by the modern China within the past 60 years. In fact, there are a lot of noises about China invading Detroit in 2011...

[Bailey Guns]

Wow...the music in that movie trailer was quite possibly the most obnoxious sound I've ever heard. Ranks right up there with listening to Barney Frank speaking.

[MrPrena]

Updated this morning, approximately 50 rounds fired by the North, the South retaliated with upwards of 80 rounds. The island is burning in many places and civilians are in bunkers.

The island is a long running point of contention between the two Korea's and the South has been running both land and sea based military exercises in the West of the peninsula.

I'm bummed for the civilian deaths, but there is not a valid need for US forces in S. Korea. Personally it's a third world shit hole that wasn't worth the 15 months I spent there. That's 15 months of my life I'll never get back.

S. Korea is a third world country? Since when?

Yeah.... Since when was S.Korea 3rd word country?
I don't know where in S.Korea you were stationed at, but S.Korea has top 15 biggest economy in the world.

"South Korea is a presidential republic consisting of sixteen administrative divisions and is a developed country with a very high standard of living. It is Asia's fourth largest economy and the world's 15th (nominal) or 12th (purchasing power parity) largest economy. The economy is export-driven, with production focusing on electronics, automobiles, ships, machinery, petrochemicals and robotics. South Korea is a member of the United Nations, WTO, OECD and G-20 major economies. It is also a founding member of APEC and the East Asia Summit."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea

[Byte Stryke]

Wow...the music in that movie trailer was quite possibly the most obnoxious sound I've ever heard. Ranks right up there with listening to Barney Frank speaking.

I would have preferred a 4 hour barney frank speech to that shit.
Now I REALLY do not want to see this "remake"

time to take some vicodin and a beer and lay down for a bit

[Mtn.man]

Agreed. Marney Fwank.