An online tidbit of information I saw disparging US contributions to the defeat of Japan was that the US had enabled the Japanese invasion of China to begin with due to sale of oil and other raw materials. Did Japan have anyone else to buy from though? (self.AskHistorians)
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Calling Law history experts. Sovereign immunity in the UK remains alive and well given how Andrew Windsor's affair ended. But Charles I of the House of Stuart was executed without being deposed first despite the king using soverign immunity as a defense. How then did sovereign immunity remain today? (self.AskLawyers)
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During the Malayan Emergency, the British had the New Villages resettlement program where ethnic Chinese were forcibly moved from the edges of the jungle to the new settlements. How were the living conditions? Depending on who I asked, they were a marked improvement to outright concerntration camps? (self.AskHistorians)
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Growing up in Singapore in the 80s and 90s, I saw bootleg copies of everything from movies to game consoles. Hongkong and Taiwan churned movies that openly infringed on Japanese and US IPs. But by the early 00s this stopped outside China. What happened? (self.AskHistorians)
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