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China is a nuclear-weapon state with the world's largest standing army by military personnel and the second-largest defense budget. It is a great power, and has been described as an emerging superpower. China is known for its cuisine and culture, and has 59 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the second-highest number of any country.
He considered Chinese culture "uncivilized", and his negative views on China played a significant role in his decision to issue a declaration of war. [30] This disdain became increasingly common throughout the Second Opium War (1856–1860), when repeated attacks against foreign traders in China inflamed anti-Chinese sentiment abroad.
The post-war minimization of the war crimes of Japanese imperialism is an example of "illegitimate" historical revisionism; [41] some contemporary Japanese revisionists, such as Yūko Iwanami (granddaughter of General Hideki Tojo), propose that Japan's invasion of China, and World War II, itself, were justified reactions to the Western ...
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera A rock on the Moroccan coast connected to the mainland by an 80-metre-wide (260 ft) tombolo ; it is owned by Spain . In 2012, four Moroccan irredentists attempted to storm and take over the territory .
Chinese Wikipedia editors described regret that they abetted and were deceived by Zhemao and participated in damaging the encyclopedia's already delicate reputation for reliability. [2] Engadget likened the Zhemao hoaxes to the 2007 Essjay controversy , in which a Wikipedia editor similarly faked his stated expertise.
A weird phenomenon in Russian history for all the fake kings that they once had. One, in reality, did become a ruler. Glass delusion: Believing oneself to be made of glass was quite in vogue among Renaissance-era European nobility. Gilles de Rais: Friend of Joan of Arc, and convicted serial killer. Loveday
The censorship of Wikimedia in mainland China means that the government of the People's Republic of China and network operators in mainland China have used technical means since June 2004 [1] to prevent netizens in mainland China from accessing some or all project websites under the Wikimedia Foundation.
The first record of a Chinese man in France is Shen Fo-tsung in 1684, and soon after Arcade Huang, also known as Huang Jialüe (1679-1716).He was brought back by Jesuit missionaries to the Versailles court of Louis XIV, the Sun King in the late 17th century, and oversaw a collection of manuscripts sent as a gift from the Kangxi Emperor of Qing China.