Wasserman(n) means waterman in german btw....
Wasserman(n) means waterman in german btw....
lol honestly I don’t know why but it seems the US is even more of a whiner than usual recently. Basically they want WADA to punish China for something that is iffy at best but they don’t want WADA to punish them for hiding dopers.
U.S. Funding Dispute With World Anti-Doping Agency Boils Over
After the Biden administration withheld funding to the agency, saying it had lost confidence in its ability to police elite athletes, WADA removed the United States from its board.
California reservoirs are nearly full. All they needed was building 21st century Air tanker that scoop water directly. for some reason this rich people not have this thinking.1200 acres? That was yesterday when it started at 20 acres. It is now +16,000 acres burning about few hours ago.
Hurricane winds blowing fire + no available water for fire fighting.
Since you're talking about this...Or it could be intentionally done to burn down enough land for the US corporations to buy up those lands while those insurers cancelling all those covers means that they will save on having to insure all those people that lost their homes.
It's interesting because around the time when China was importing J-11 there were voices in PLAAF saying Flanker is so much better than the then in development J-10 and the project should be dropped and the funds made available to buy more J-11. It went all the way to the top to Jiang Zemin who was very supportive of J-10 program because he understood the need to nurture domestic aircraft R&D to pave the way for future aircraft. He apparently smashed a teacup in front of PLAAF people and yelled at them telling them he doesn't want to hear from them again asking to cancel J-10.
While certainly the correct decision in retrospect as the experience gained by CAC eventually lead to the J-20 and J-36 today, Elder was taking on risk by supporting J-10, not only placing trust in CAC's ability to deliver but also it meant China had to take geopolitical threats on the chin in the meanwhile to not spark off any wars while they PLA was in a relatively weak state. Hence Yinhe incident, bombing of Belgrade embassy in 1999 and Hainan EP-3 incident in 2001.
Now that something similar is playing out in India I'm wondering if the decision to stick with Tejas is correct and could J-10 ended up going the same way if CAC was like HAL.

I'm sure right wing people are going to claim it's Sodom and Gomorrah type punishment since it's California being burnt.