Write a short paragraph expressing your ideas about the chinese and silk production. why do you think they so carefully guarded the secret of how to produce silk?

china unilaterally claims the entire south china sea as sovereign territory, then builds artificial islands to bolster its claim. it suddenly activates an air defense identification zone over the east china sea, and threatens to down any aircraft that does not report its position. it builds roads into indian territory, then redraws the maps to show that it is actually chinese territory. the people's republic under president xi jinping is quickly becoming the bully of asia.

typical characteristics of global cities include all of the following except being culturally isolationist.

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