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What is the most famous two-faced man in history?

答主：Jean-Marie Valheur, lover of history

The story of Osama bin Laden has always been fascinating to me. The son of a billionaire businessman, he was born into obscene wealth. Like this guy had one of the most ridiculously privileged lives every in the history of the world. Could have had it all, the best cars, finest food, most beautiful women…
奥萨马·本·拉登的故事总是对我很有吸引力。作为亿万富商之子，他生来就拥有骇人听闻的财富。例如他过着世界历史上世界历史上最荒谬的特权生活之一。他本可以拥有一切：最好的车、最优质的食物、最美的女人。

Instead, he picks up arms and joins freedom fighters in Afghanistan, risking life and limb for the freedom of a nation he has no ties to and is not from. Joining the ‘mujahedeen’ warriors, Bin Laden faces near-certain death in fighting Russian troops just so that another nation and its people may be free. For years, he’s kind of a heroic figure because of this, raiding Soviet convoys with his men, a rusty AK47 in his hands, half-starved, dodging bullets left and right underneath the blistering sun...
然而，他却选择举起武器，加入到阿富汗的自由战士中，冒着身体和生命的危险，为了一个和他并不紧密相连，也不是他祖国的国家的自由而战。当他加入“圣战者”组织时，本·拉登面对的是近乎确定的死亡，因为他要为了另一个国家和它人民的自由与俄罗斯军队作战。此去经年，他也因此成为一种英雄般的人物，他带着他的人袭击苏联车队，手持生锈的AK-47，顶着烈日在半饥饿状态下左右闪避子弹。

In the end, the mujahedeen succeed, and Afghanistan is freed when the Russian troops leave with their tail between their legs. Next, things go to shit, as we all know… the Taliban gains control of Kabul, takes over the country, and it plunges into a new dark era of nearly medieval circumstances. Things go South, and they go South quickly. But it’s easy to forget how popular the Afghan rebels and their international allies were, back in the day.
最终，圣战者组织胜利了，俄罗斯军队夹着尾巴离开了，阿富汗获得了自由。随后，事情变得一团糟，正如我们所知……塔利班控制了喀布尔，接管了这个国家，并猛地把它推入近乎中世纪情况下的新黑暗时代。事情开始恶化，迅速地恶化。但是，遗忘当初的阿富汗叛军与他们的国际盟友怎样受欢迎是件多容易的事。

Take Stallone’s third Rambo movie, for instance — dedicated to the brave mujahedeen fighters of Afghanistan. It is easy to forget now, and surely America would love you to forget, that Osama and his fellow rebels-with-a-cause were once aided heavily by the United States military and the CIA. A massive miscalculation of truly historical proportions, if there ever was one.
用史泰龙的第三部兰博电影举例——这部电影是献给英勇的阿富汗圣战士的。它很容易被遗忘，而且美国肯定希望你忘记奥萨马和他的叛军伙伴们曾因为某个理由一度得到美军和中情局的大力协助。如果存在的话，那真是一个历史意义上的重大误算。

Osama bin Laden went from spoiled rotten scion of a billionaire family to some sort of Arab Robin Hood figure, and from heroic freedom fighter to bloodthirsty terrorist plunging the world and his region into chaos and destruction… quite a spectacular turn of events.
奥萨马·本·拉登从一个亿万富翁家庭被宠坏的纨绔子弟成为了阿拉伯的某种罗宾汉式的人物，然后又从英雄般的自由斗士变成嗜血的恐怖分子，将世界和他的地区推入混沌和破坏……真是令人惊叹的转折。

单词表

fascinating adj. 迷人的
obsence adj. 骇人听闻的
privileged adj. 享有特权的
limb n. 四肢
mujahideen n. 圣战者
raid v. 突袭
convoy n. 车队
rusty adj. 生锈的
dodge v. 闪躲
underneath prep. 在……下面
blistering adj. 猛烈的
take over 接管
plunge v. 猛推
south adv. 恶化
back in the day 在当时
Stallone 史泰龙
proportions n. 规模，程度
spoiled adj. 宠坏的
rotten adj. 腐败的
scion n. （贵族的）子弟
bloodthirsty adj. 嗜血的
spectacular adj. 令人惊叹的

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时间：2023年3月20日

If Chinese communism is so good and beneficial, why does the government find it necessary to manipulate and restrict free speech and media?

答主：Nathan James, Geopolitical pundit and blogger

Every nation on earth manipulates the media, and every nation on earth restricts free speech when necessary. No exception.
地球上每一个国家都操纵媒体，并且当必要时限制言论自由。没有例外。

You don’t think America manipulates the media? You don’t think America restricts free speech? Don’t be so fucking naive.
你不认为美国操纵媒体吗？你不认为美国限制了言论自由吗？别太他妈的天真了。

America has recently been censoring journalists for telling the truth about Russia and Ukraine. America has been using the media to spread propaganda since, well, forever.
美国最近一直在审查披露俄乌真相的记者。美国一直在运用媒体来散布宣传，从开始到永远。

Your question exposes your colossal ignorance and naivete.
你的问题暴露了你巨大的无知和天真。

Vincent Ng

you forget the massive lie to start the invasion of Iraq, with a test tube of washing powder masquerading as WMD? The US government can lie with such a straight face.
你忘了美国为了侵略伊拉克撒的弥天大谎，把一个装着洗衣粉的试管谎称是大规模杀伤性武器。美国政府可以面无表情地撒谎。

Chenyao Lu

The thing is you can say it here. I agree that the control of media is universal, but there is a matter of degree.
问题在于你可以在这里说。我同意对媒体的控制是普遍的，但是有一个程度的问题。

Also, people are always saying the western media is only making propaganda. However, issues like My Lai Massacre and Abu Ghraib Torture is known to the public thanks to the western media.
同样地，人们总是说西方媒体只是在做宣传而已。但是，像美莱村大屠杀和伊拉克虐囚事件也是因为西方媒体的努力才为公众所知。

单词表

manipulate v. 操纵
restrict v. 限制
colossal adj. 巨大的
ignorance n. 物质
naivete n. 天真
massive adj. 巨大的
masquerade v. 掩饰
WMD =weapon of mass destruction
straight face 面无表情的脸
The thing is 问题在于……
a matter of degree 程度问题

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时间：2022年8月25日

Why didn't the US bomb China like Syria, Libya, and Afghanistan since the US sees China as the biggest threat?

答主：David J Wong, Lived in US

It’s pretty simple.
原因很简单。

The US hasn’t bombed China because China and the US are not at war.
美国还没有轰炸中国是因为中美没有开战。

It also helps that China has hundreds of these
当然，也因为中国有数以百计的这个

and these
和这个

You don’t go around directly bombing other nuclear-armed powers unless you want to risk starting WWIII. Even at the height of the Cold War when the US and the USSR were locked in a battle for global supremacy, they used proxies rather than confront each other directly for this very reason.
你不会直接去轰炸另一个有核国家，除非你想承担开启第三次世界大战的风险。即便在冷战的最高点，美国和苏联被彼此锁定在全球争霸战中，就为了这个原因，他们与直面彼此相比，还是更喜欢使用代理人。

Of course, the bigger question that should be asked relates to your common sense and ethics. Specifically, what act of war has China committed against the United States that the US should bomb it? And why you think it’s appropriate for the United States to be going around bombing every country that might somehow be perceived as a threat?
当然，我们应该提出的更大问题是关于你的常识和道德标准。具体来说，中国做出了什么针对美国的战争行为，使美国要轰炸它？为什么你认为美国轰炸被认为有某种可能是威胁的每一个国家是合适的？

单词表

go around 以某种方式做事
supremacy n. 霸权
confront v. 面对
height n. 最高点
very adj. （加强名词语气）唯独
ethic n. 道德标准
specifically adv. 具体地
appropriate adj. 合适的
perceive v. 认为

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时间：2023年3月14日

What do Chinese citizens, particularly the young adults, think about events such as the June 4th Incident, aka, the Tiananmen Square massacre, when information around it has been so heavily censored?

答主：Xingyi Jiang

I am currently a student at Beijing’s Tsinghua University majoring in law. I first came to know this incident when my father, who was at that time a university students in Beijing, talked about it with his university classmates on a reunion event.
我是北京清华大学法律专业的在校学生。我第一次知道这起事件，是因为我父亲在和他大学同学的聚会上谈到此事，事件发生时他就是北京的一名大学生。

My father was not on the square on that particular night, but surely many of his classmates did. When they talked about this, I could only feel that they were recalling some unforgettable interesting things happened during college years. Time has passed and China has become very different from then. And most students who participated in that incident have become the backbone of Chinese society. It was very hard to get into university then. After the incident, most of the students involved were not held responsible for the riots and later became social elite.
我的父亲当天晚上并不在天安门广场，但肯定有很多他的同学在。当他们谈论这个时，我只觉得他们在回忆某些大学时代发生的难忘的有趣记忆。时间过去，中国已经变得和当时非常不同。而参与那次事件的大多数学生都变成了中国社会的脊柱。在当时上大学是非常困难的。这起事件之后，被卷入的大多数学生都没有被抓起来为暴乱负责，随后便成为社会精英。

When I asked them whether there were deaths among their schoolmates my father told me their was only one-a male student was shot when attempting to set a bus into flames. And still, this kill did not take place on the square on that particular night.
当我问他们，是否有他们的同学在事件中死亡，我的父亲告诉我说只有一个——一个男同学在试图点燃一辆巴士时被射杀。并且同样地，这桩射杀也不是发生在那天晚上的天安门广场。

I could tell today, most Chinese people in his age, who know what happened that time are gratitude the CCP withstood the pressure given by the students and western powers and crackdown this movement. Actually, at that time many people in China were in sympathy with the students. Then, Chinese people’s basic wish was actually not to adopt western democracy but to start anti-corruption campaigns. However, because of the efforts made by CIA agents and the propaganda campaign made by western medias, the movement has been interpreted as a democratic protest. And later years witnessed the failure of western democracy and universal value in many places like the fallen Soviet Union and the Middle East. Democracy has really become a bad name in China.
今天我可以说，大多数和他一样大，知道当时发生了什么的中国人都感谢中共顶住了学生和西方的压力，镇压了这场运动。确实，当时中国有许多人同情学生。但当时中国人民的基本愿望其实不是接受西方民主，而是开启反腐败运动。然而，因为CIA特工的努力和西方媒体的宣传运动，这场运动被解释成了一场民主运动。后来的许多年，我们见证了西方民主和普世价值在许多地方的失败，如解体后的苏联和中东。民主在中国已经变成了贬义词。

My father told me that he really admired Deng, who at that time a reformer, daring to bear the evil name of masscarer and decisively crackdown on the movement and send the students back to school. Deng was absolutely a reformer and who had a true insight about Chinas’s history, today and future. He knew that abruptly ending the rule of CCP will bring much more trouble and instability into China. Without the CCP’s decisive action, Chinese people could not expect the economic boom in the 30 years after the incident.
我的父亲告诉我他真的很欣赏邓，他作为当时的改革者，敢于背上屠夫的恶名，果断镇压了运动并把学生送回学校。邓无疑是一个对中国历史、现实和未来有真知灼见的改革者。他知道突然结束中共的他统治将会为中国带来更多麻烦和不稳定。如果没有中共果断的行动，中国人民不可能期待这桩事件发生后的30年间经济取得的爆炸性增长。

单词表

massacre n. 屠杀
censor v. 删减，审查
particular adj. 专指的，特指的
backbone n. 脊梁骨
gratitude n. 感激之情
withstand v. 顶住
crackdown v. 镇压
sympathy n. 同情
anti-corruption n. 反腐败
effort n. 努力
interpret v. 解释
protest v. 抗议
witeness v. 目击
decisively adv. 果断地
abruptly adv. 突然地

译自：https://qr.ae/pr0RoI

时间：2018年6月13日

Why can’t China let the People of Taiwan decide themselves if they want to live under China’s thumb?

答主：Shun Bot, BS from Xinjiang Re-Education Camps (Graduated 1990)

Why can’t the Union let the Confederacy decide themselves if they want to live under the Union’s thumb?
为什么合众国不能让南方联盟自决，如果他们不想活在合众国的控制下？

Why can’t the English let Northern Ireland decide themselves if they want to live under the British thumb?
为什么英国人不能让北爱尔兰自决，如果他们不想活在不列颠的控制下？

Why can’t Spain let Catalonia decide themselves if they want to live under the Spanish thumb?
为什么西班牙不能让加泰罗尼亚自决，如果他们不想活在西班牙的控制下？

Why can’t Japan let Okinawa decide themselves if they want to live under the Japanese thumb?
为什么日本不能让冲绳自决，如果他们不想活在日本的控制下？

—

Do I need to keep going, or are you satisfied now? I think there’s a packet of fentanyl you still have to work on. It is your country’s national pastime after all… Well, that and shooting kids in schools. Though the latter activity requires a certain level of physical fitness (guns are heavy) that few of your countrymen can manage.
我还需不需要继续下去，或者说你现在已经满意了？我想这里还有一包芬太尼需要你去处理。毕竟这是你们国家的国民娱乐……好吧，还有在学校里射击孩子也是。尽管后一项活动需要一定的身体素质（枪可是很沉的），在你们的国家已经没什么人能做到了。

Look on the bright side: if they’re unqualified for military service, they’re unlikely to be school shooters. See, there’s a silver lining in everything!
看看光明的一面：如果他们兵役不合格，他们也不太可能成为校园枪手。看，凡事都有一线希望！

—

To formally answer the question:
如果正式地回答这个问题：

China won’t let Taiwan go because that’s China’s right as a sovereign country. We need no justification and we don’t need to defend our decision.
中国不会允许台湾独立，因为那是中国作为一个主权国家的权利。我们不需要证明什么，也不需要为我们的决定辩护。

·180 out of 193 UN members recognize China as China (including your country).
·联合国193个成员里有180个承认中国是中国（包括你们国家）。
·The other 13 recognize Taiwan as China.
·另外13个承认台湾是中国。
·0 members recognize Taiwan as Taiwan.
·0个成员承认台湾是台湾国。

So before you defend Taiwan’s “sovereignty” you should first get your govt to recognize Taiwan as sovereign.
所以，在你捍卫台湾“主权”之前，你需要先让你们的政府承认台湾有主权。

单词表

thumb n. 拇指
confederacy n. 联盟，联邦
fentanyl n. 芬太尼
work on 忙于……
pastime n. 娱乐
after all 毕竟
fitness n.减抗
countryman n. 国民
unqualified adj. 不合格的
There’s a silver lining in everything. 凡事都有一线希望
sovereign adj. 有主权的、
justification n. 证明为正当

译自：https://qr.ae/prL4J0

时间：2023年4月13日

Why do young Chinese have so little interest in democracy?

答主：Shun Bot, BS from Xinjiang Re-Education Camps (Graduated 1990)

There is a prevailing myth that democracy = wealth. This myth is supported by the fact that nearly all wealthy countries are at least nominally democratic. However, this theory doesn’t take into account the order of events. Did these countries become rich first, or democratic first?
一个流行的神话是民主=财富。支撑这个文化的事实是，几乎所有富裕国家至少在名义上都是民主的。然而，这个理论并没有考虑到事情的顺序。这些国家是先富起来，还是先民主的？

Looking at the G7, the biggest rich countries in the world, all 7 were rich first and democratic later (if we assume “democratic” means electoral govt by universal male suffrage). In the case of Germany, Italy and Japan, it took multiple world wars for their democracies to stick. A poor country doesn’t start world wars.
让我们看看G7，世界上最大的富裕国家，他们全都是先富起来再实现的民主（如果我们假设“民主”意味着由男性普遍选举得到的民选政府）。而在德国、意大利和日本，他们经历了两次世界大战才最终接受了民主制。穷国不会发起世界大战。

Pictured is the first railway line in Japan, between Tokyo and Yokohama, built in 1875 while Japan was under oligarchic rule. The parallels with China’s HSR should be obvious.
画中描绘的是日本的第一条铁路，它连结东京与横滨，建造于1875年的日本，当时日本还在寡头统治下。它与中国高铁之间的共同点是显而易见的。

On the other hand, there are over 100 countries in the world that are poor or middle income and became democratic without becoming rich. India, Brazil, Indonesia are the best examples. No one in China wants their country to resemble any of those countries.
另一方面，世界上有100多个国家还处于贫穷和中等收入下，他们民主化之后并没有变得富有。印度、巴西、印度尼西亚是最好的例子。没有哪个中国人希望他们的国家和哪些国家相似。

Brazil became fully democratic by mid 20th century. Since then, it’s level of development relative to the US has not improved. It may have actually gone backward. China does not want to end up like Brazil.
巴西从20世纪中叶开始就完全民主化了。从那时开始，它的发展水平相对于美国而言没有任何提升。事实上也许还倒退了。中国不想要巴西那样的结局。

Most Chinese still view China as a poor or middle income country. Very few would consider it a rich country. And objectively speaking, at around $11,000 USD GDP per capita (nominal), China is on the lower end of “middle income”. On a per capita basis, it’s on par with countries like Russia, Brazil, Malaysia and Mexico.
多数中国人依然把中国视为一个贫穷或中等收入的国家。非常少的人会把中国当成富裕国家。而且客观地说，（在名义上）人均GDP11000美元左右的中国，正位于“中等收入”的底部。在人均的基础上，中国和俄罗斯、巴西、马来西亚和墨西哥是同等水平。

The priority is thus to become rich first. And once we cross that bridge, we can decide what we want to do in terms of political liberalization.
因此，优先事项是先变得富有。而一旦我们跨越那座桥，我们就能够去决定在政治自由方面我们想做什么。

单词表

prevail v. 流行
nominally adv. 名义上地
take into account 考虑
order n. 顺序
assume v. 假设
electoral adj. 选举的
govt =government
suffrage n. 选举权
stick v. 被接受
Yokohama n. 横滨
oligarchic adj. 寡头政治的
parallel n. 共同点
HSR = Hight Speed Railway
resemble v. 与……相似
relative adj. 相比较而言的
objectively adv. 客观地
per capita adv. 人均
par adj. 标准的
priority n. 优先事项
thus adv. 因此
in terms of 在……方面

译自：https://qr.ae/prLGvP

时间：2022年7月22日

Mao Zedong died in 1976. Why is China still obsessed with a dead man from 1976?

答主：Tony Tan, Former Self Employed Trader

The Chinese are not obsessed with Mao. But we are beginning to wonder why the China haters are so obsessed with hating Mao and want to persuade us to hate Mao too.
中国人没有对毛念念不忘。但是我们开始怀疑为什么仇恨中国的人都对仇恨毛这件事念念不忘，而且希望说服我们也仇恨毛。

You must admit that there must be something which make them to keep doing that.
你必须承认，这里肯定有什么原因让他们一直这么做。

Zhang Zhiheng

The Chinese haters are the best teachers to show you the right way to go by consistently pointing to the wrong direction. Which they hate most must be the one we should love the most, such as Chairman Mao.
仇恨中国人的家伙是最好的老师，他们通过始终指着错误的方向来告诉你正确的路是哪条。他们最仇恨的一定是我们应该最爱的那个，比如毛主席。

Tony Tan

That's right. I used to hate Chairman Mao. But the foreign haters convinced me that Mao had to be a good Chinese leader.
是这样的。我曾经仇恨毛主席。但怀恨的外国人使我确信毛一定是一个不错的中国领导人。

Suresh Kumar

True actually just like those idiots that hated, the Mughal emperor, and kept on making stuff up to justify it.
真的是这样，就像那些仇恨莫卧儿皇帝的白痴，他们一直编故事来证明这一点。

Boonee Teoh

Without Chairman Mao, there will be more foreign occupations. Thanks, Chairman Mao the father of China!
如果没有毛主席，就会有更多的外国占领。谢谢你，中国的国父毛主席！

单词表

obsess v. 使着迷，念念不忘
persuade v. 说服
consistent adj. 始终如一的
convince v. 使确信
make stuff up 杜撰
justify v. 证明……正确，为……辩护
occcupation n. 职业；占领

译自：https://qr.ae/prdIyM

时间：2022年9月28日

Why does Saudi Arabia want to join BRICS?

答主：Sheoran, studied international relations

After Russia-Ukraine war, many countries are now understanding where the world order is heading. They are now realising the hypocrisy of the west. Whenever any country does not work according to the west (mainly US), then later they will support rival party to create and build pressure to the country. This is like doing indirect blackmail.
在俄罗斯-乌克兰战争之后，许多国家如今都理解了世界秩序正朝什么方向前进。他们正意识到西方有多么伪善。当西方（主要是美国）在任何时候认为任何国家不行，那么等下他们就会支持反对党来对该国创建压力。这就像是进行间接胁迫。

The same is now happening with India. As soon as India is becoming neutral, the US is supporting Pakistan.
现在印度就在发生同样的事。当印度开始变得中立时，美国就支持巴基斯坦。

Saudi Arabia understands this. They are remaining neutral and somewhat supporting Russia in oil production issue. Now, Iran will be the full-fledged member of BRICS from 2023.
沙特阿拉伯也懂这一点。他们仍然保持着中立，并在石油生产议题上有点支持俄罗斯。现在，伊朗从2023年期将会是具有完全资格的金砖国家成员。

China, India, Russia all are showing neutral positions regarding Saudi-Iran issue. They don’t want to get caught up. It was US who was not neutral. Because of this, they were benefiting immediately and long-term trust issues will happen.
中国、印度、俄罗斯都在沙特—伊朗问题上展现出中立立场。他们不想被这个问题缠住。而美国不是中立的。因此他们很快就会收益，而长期的信任议题将会发生。

Anyway, many off topic things are written but they are important for understanding issue as a whole. Overall, US is not going anywhere. They can play a lot cards. US dollars will stay global currency and not going anywhere anytime soon.
好吧，我写了许多离题的内容，但他们对于从整体上理解这一议题是很重要的。总的来说，美国没有准备离开这里。他们还有很多牌可以打。美元还将会是国际货币，并且短期内不会有任何改变。

单词表

head v. 朝某方向行进
hypocrisy n. 伪善
rival n. 竞争对手
indirect adj. 间接的
blackmail n. 威胁，勒索
somewhat adv. 有点
full-fledged adj. 羽毛丰满的，完全有资格的
catch up 把……缠住
off topic 离题
anyway 好吧（用于转换话题或回到前一个话题）
overall 总的来说
currency n. 通货

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时间：2022年12月22日