• “Given the increasingly severe international situation, I believe we may truly be at a turning point in history,” Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said at the start of the meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul. “That makes it even more important to overcome division and confrontation through dialogue and cooperation,” he added.
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      Immediately followed by the Chinese demographic collapse. It’s gonna be a SHORT century.

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        Good thing they’ve invested heavily in infrastructure across Africa and Southeast Asia. When things begin to look dire they can open up immigration

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      It won’t last a century. As time moves forward, empires last less and less time.