Nepal politics is so chaotic. There are three more or less equally big parties - two communist (Marxist Leninists and Maoists) and one centrist (Nepali Congress). Any two of the three can form a majority in Parliament, so they keep making and breaking coalitions in all possible combinations and permutations.

Should’ve gone with CoNan smh.

Chinese companies have several advantages going for them:-

• Large domestic market
• Skilled and educated workforce
• Natural resources and good transport infrastructure
• Loans / subsidies for investment

All of these lead to:-

• Economies of scale - building your thousandth car is much cheaper than building your first; and
• Short supply chains - building a smartphone becomes a lot cheaper when chips, cameras, screens and cases are all manufactured in the same country, perhaps even the same city.

And yes, China is a lot richer than Thailand, so they can take over the local market if they want to.

Long o in Finnish is oo

That is logical and sensible. Unfortunately, oo in English is a long u, so long o has to be approximated as oe.

That’s like saying you can build a nuclear bomb by smashing pieces of uranium together. Technically true, but it’s a lot more complicated than that.

Ah, so he protected them from being prosecuted or something?

More or less. Not he alone, but many senior LDP leaders with him at the helm.

The murderer wrote.that.he planned to kill the church leader,.but changed.his mine cause Abe was more famous and would get more attention.

Correct.

I don’t think there is evidence that the murderers motivations were political, but I could be wrong.

As I understand, he wanted to draw attention to the Moonies while ‘punishing’ someone he held responsible for his family’s condition.

It wasn’t just religious affiliation. He, and others in the LDP, protected the Moonies in return for their political support. It was very much a political issue (separation of church and state).

You’re right, it should be ou here, not oe.

The long o (oe or ö) is a sound present in north European languages, and also in many Asian languages, including Japanese.

I wouldn’t call him imperialist, but he repeatedly denied WW2 Japanese war crimes (in particular the Nanking massacre and the use of Korean ‘comfort women’). This is the rough equivalent of a German Chancellor denying the Holocaust.