In the process, Chinese Internet users also entered into a lively debate over whether such a vote was warranted or whether the Great Wall should be on the list when the worlds sole remaining site from the original Seven Wonders, the Great Pyramids of Giza, was not included in the vote due to the objections of Egyptian authorities.
An historically related issue, and one that continues to generate lively debate, is whether both chromosomes participating in an exchange must sustain radiation damage, or whether instead a single damaged site on one chromosome is sufficient.
Then the already lively debate about whether machines are conscious will really heat up.
That has sparked a lively debate over whether the Yankees are tanking (or should be tanking) to keep the Red Sox out of the playoffs.
In particular, a lively debate over whether risky "casino" investment banking should be split from "utility" commercial and retail banking, guaranteed by the taxpayer, has been cut short.
And marketing professors and crisis management experts are having a lively debate over whether the company is right to downplay its birthday now.
Today, four years after the documentaries aired, Pakistan is still engaged in a lively debate about whether to enter peace talks with the Taliban.
Their heavy-handed treatment of two recent films has sparked a lively debate about whether cinemas should at last be allowed to show something racier.At present, films deemed unsuitable for children may not be shown to adults either.
All this domestic brawling over foreign "subversives" and "entanglements" foreshadowed our still lively debate about whether we should actively export democracy or merely display it as a living example to other societies.
So it is not surprising that the United States' presence there, which endures in the form of more than 130,000 troops, has prompted a lively debate over whether the United States is today an empire.
