In architecture, the triangle is usually the favoured shape when it comes to the steel work of bridges and buildings, owing to the three-sided polygon's characteristics that give it strength. It is quite impossible to collapse a triangle without breaking one of its sides.
In geopolitical analyses of North-east Asia, the triangle comes into play, too.
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