Past conquest cannot be a legitimate basis for current rule.

Later invasions of Mongols, led by Genghis Khan and his army, started pandemics in Europe in 1222, 1233 and 1238.

In the 1620s and 1630s, Joseon suffered from invasions by the Manchu which eventually extended to China as well.

In the Middle Ages, it saw many invasions, but in the Renaissance period it helped lead Europe back to civilisation.

As Korea was striving to rebuild itself after the war, it suffered from the invasions by the Manchu in 1627 and 1636.

But, in confidential briefings, Nigeria has strongly hinted that it will not tolerate any foreign incursions on a vital and strategic resource in its own backyard.

The same addiction that became the top preventable cause of death in Western countries has made big inroads in developing countries.

Indeed, it is humbling to remember that some of history s most deadly invasions were carried out by single cell organisms, such as cholera, bubonic plague, and tuberculosis.

As China s incursions reignite long smoldering disagreements and threaten to destabilize the regional status quo, countries throughout Asia are reconsidering their strategic positions.

Even Islam which mostly spread in the wake of military conquests in the Middle East, India, and North Africa expanded rather peacefully into Southeast Asia in the footsteps of merchants, scholars and mystics.

A mixed civilian military team investigating reports of Chinese incursions were, on May 16, threatened and forced to retreat by a PLA formation in three armored vehicles.

Serbia repelled three consecutive invasions by Austria, securing the first major victories of the war for the Allies, but was eventually overwhelmed by the combined forces of the Central Powers and forced to retreat through Albania to the Greek island of Corfu.

The people of the Niger, facing an acute food crisis following a farming season marked by severe food shortages and locust invasions, expresses its full gratitude to the agencies of the United Nations system and to the entire international community for the efforts made to help our country in such difficult circumstances.

Nationalist Chinese remember imperial Russia s conquests, while many Russians have a morbid fear of the yellow peril, even though the Mongols conquered and reigned in China, while they were eventually repelled from Russia (not to mention that the Chinese never invaded Russia).

Finally, there is the issue of the Yasukuni Shrine to Japanese war dead, which records in its Book of Souls 14 A class war criminals, and contains a museum that glorifies Japan s conquests as just wars fought for survival and self defense or for the liberation of Asia.