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[burritocannon]

let's not get lost in the whole morality framework either. "fascism bad" are not the words of heaven. it is a construct of man, made to serve earthly purposes. it merely borrows heavenly aesthetics in order to better serve those purposes. western morality is crafted by the west to serve western interests, and do not think for a moment that they will allow it to be reversed on themselves by the foreign other.

to accuse them of hypocrisy is only to admit that you have fallen into their conceptual gravity, that you too see the world as they dictate you ought to. thusly they win, even when they lose.

 

[iewgnem]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1914118427666682075

About time China brought out the stick.
Carrot and stick, China has both, America only has stick, lol

 

[Maikeru]

You know in the original Heinlein story, the bugs were an allegory for the Chinese? (or at least a Western stereotype of them as dehumanized mindless swarming hordes)

Well in Star Trek TOS the Klingons were the Soviets and the Romulans were ChiComs.

 

[zbb]

Well in Star Trek TOS the Klingons were the Soviets and the Romulans were ChiComs.

You have it backwards, the Klingons represented the Chinese, the Romulans were the Soviets (or Eastern Europeans/Warsaw Pact), Vulcans were the Western Europeans, and the Federation (humans + Vulcans) was NATO.

 

[Iracundus]

You have it backwards, the Klingons represented the Chinese, the Romulans were the Soviets (or Eastern Europeans/Warsaw Pact), Vulcans were the Western Europeans, and the Federation (humans + Vulcans) was NATO.

Uh no, the Klingons were clearly the Soviets. Star Trek VI with its Not Chernobyl power plant accident was glaringly obvious as an allegory. The writers behind Star Trek have also confirmed that originally in TOS the Klingons were Soviets and the Romulans were Chinese. That changed around the time of TNG as Klingons morphed into Space Vikings

 

[daifo]

Vietnam officially recognized that the PLA fought with them against the empire

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1914011267704242271

 

[enroger]

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Damn it went over my head, I just went to see it for people pew pew bad bugs

 

[vincent]

Steve Miran's "century bonds" proposal isn't principally intended to generate monetary returns for extremely patient purchasers of US sovereign debt.

Instead, buyers will primarily be "rewarded" with American security guarantees, which Miran frames as "global public goods."

In this regard,

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will work too as far as Miran is concerned:

To put it crudely, Uncle Sam doesn't intend to sell "century bonds" so much as to collect protection money.

Given the fact the Hegemon has to rally its vassals to take on China (means it can’t take on China alone), and the fact the West couldn‘t stop Russia from smashing Ukraine, how much the “protection” from the Hegemon worth?

 

[argo]

Does the PLA operate an airborne command post equivalent to E-6B?

 

[pmc]

Japan had 3 times the population and a 20 year head start. Korea was and always will be be constrained by its size. Korea will never have a sufficiently large domestic market or talent pool to achieve the economies of scale that larger countries can: hence self sufficiency and internationally competetive software companies will always be out of its reach. Compared to Japan, Korea punched far above its weight class.

Majority of success of Korea is due to globalization (market size and talent is global) and Japan success was pre-globalization. Korea cannot develop Car tire without globalization what Japan could do decades ago.
I have alot interest in my favorite topic and they release stuff on there social media to show history to the new generation. The picture is mid to late 80s Saudi Taxi stand but the Vehicles are late 70s Toyota Cressida(Toyota transition to rectangular lights in 1980). Japan develop such vehicle post oil Crises period in limited market (they have large engine capacity certainly not for Europe and Asia) and before this robotics revolution and maintain decade of reliability in that environment and when Koreans entered the market in late 80s. They put this statement Authentic Luxury in Most beautiful form. The Toyota owner in Saudi is like Royal Family with all the access. Toyota was the monoply and still largest share of the market. There are alot more that i dont want to write.

Korean domestic software ecosystem is more complete and advanced than that of the larger European nations, and arguably better than Japan's as well. Samsung, although not primarily a software company, does have a large offering of good software products as well. Unlike the Japanese, whom exhibit an unexplainable lack of aptitude for software, Korean software engineers are very good. High value software giants only exist in two countries in the world, so it's a bit unrealistic to expect Korea to have its own software giants. Economies of scale is king in software, and the US is never going to allow any country in the core US led economic and financial bloc to compete in software. If any country attempted to do so, it'd be instantly Plaza Accorded.

how do you know Korean domestic software ecosystem is complete and advanced? Alot of really high value software may not be consumer focused so stock market cannot reflect the true value.
When that Airline outages happened last year both Korea and Japan equally impacted and not Mideast Airlines.
I dont pay attention to Software because it is like Soft Power. but once you understand Gulf Monarchies approach to AI, cyber security and Social apps like Telegram they are perfectly capable of creating the biggest Software giants but it impacts there current Soft Power.