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[antiterror13]

Those B-52 bombers can they even reach main land china looks like an easy target to shoot out of the air or intercept for a nation like China?

Just a show force, nothing more. The real nuke threat to China is from Ohio SSBN and ICBM

 

[antiterror13]

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Looks like Lula is going to be Brazil's next president. BRICS+ future is looking very bright.

Is he pro China?

 

[BoraTas]

Living standards in vast majority of Europe is far better than in USA.

Americans actually earn more than Western Europeans even when you deduct healthcare and education expenses, look at the median (so accounts for inequality), and adjust for PPP. But Europe is definitely much less stressful to live. Statistics on drug use, crime, mental illnesses, etc., are evidence of this. A bit higher living standards of the USA come with this:

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Thanks, but I'm not buying.

 

[antiterror13]

I don't get it why Taiwan is so adamant on US weapons. They could buy European or Israelis no?

Or from China, the best value for money

 

[caudaceus]

I don't get it why Taiwan is so adamant on US weapons. They could buy European or Israelis no?

European similarly low on stock and Israeli will reluctant to do so, too risky if CN responded by arming Iran.

 

[supersnoop]

They have gotten themselves mirages in the past. Wouldn't hurt to acquire other
weapons.

2 reasons
1. When ROC purchased the Mirages, it pissed off the US.

2. The deal was done at a time when the mainland Chinese economy was not so strong. Nowadays they can barely get spare parts.

 

[sndef888]

I think people needs to have some realistic perspective on the world, I do not believe China or any Asian countries can ever compete with the Anglo colonies when it comes to standard of living. China is an old country where the land is near or at its carrying capacity for centuries if not millenniums.

The circumstances of Anglo colonies the likes of United States and Australia are extremely unique and irreplicable, they are recently formed country where the existing population had being completely wiped out and an entire continent worth of land and natural resources are appropriated by an extremely small number of European migrants. The Anglos colonies are infact the direct inspiration for genocidal policies of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and the former colonies are successful beyond their wildest dream.

This is the reason why the Anglo colonies could coast through any issues even if managed by complete morons, it has bugger all to do with liberalism or the other inane nonsense they spout and everything have to do with the genocidal efforts of their founding fathers that they now project onto every one of their competitors.

I don't agree with that. Modern day standards of living and carrying capacity is caused by technological and social development a lot more than land and natural resources. I believe Chinese tech and social development is going to become better than the west, which will allow Chinese to live better lives in the long run. Take a look at how China already overtook the US in life expectancy, has less crime, less likely to get attacked as an asian etc.

The only exception will be housing sizes. China won't have landed suburbia that stretches on for eternity. But then again, house size is not directly proportional to being good. I would rather live in a nicely designed apartment with a pool and gym located next to a train station than a suburban house in the middle of nowhere.

Anglo consumption levels are currently overinflated due to currency hegemony that allows them to physically consume far more than their output is actually worth. But even then it doesn't always translate into actually better standards of living. Take food for example, Americans can consume far more meat than other countries cheaply, but does that make it better than developing countries' cuisine? No, Chinese food is already far better in terms of variety and taste.

Currently, I think living in China is still marginally worse than in anglo countries thanks to this consumption power difference. But imagine a China with double of its current GDP per capita. It would still only be 1/3 of anglo GDP per capita I would bet it would already be a much nicer place to live.

 

[antiterror13]

European similarly low on stock and Israeli will reluctant to do so, too risky if CN responded by arming Iran.

I don't think anybody else (except obviously the USA) would sell any advanced weapon system to Taiwan. The time for EU companies selling weapons to Taiwan has long gone

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Chinese literary speech is something else. It makes use of a far larger variety of characters compared to everyday speech, which while not at all a bad thing does present a noticeable barrier to understanding for less fluent people. I'm fluent enough in everyday speech that I can engage in regular conversation but I am completely clueless the moment someone engages in literary speech or writing.

its not that bad, 文言文的基本原则就是“言语从简”。写时下笔有神，惜字如金，读时句斟字酌，方能理解文言文。

 

[coolgod]

India's demographic dividend in action.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1586961975455514624

The recording is out.

It is interesting how people were swinging the 143-year-old British-built bridge for many years yet nothing happened. India "fix" the bridge then 4 days later the bridge collapsed and more than 141 people are killed.