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[Biscuits]

Of course they can corrupt India. After all USA have the biggest economy in the world and they managed to corrupt their country very well from top to bottom.

2nd biggest. And also not how it works. You need a really big difference in economy size to buy out the other guy completely.

25 trillion vs 11 trillion is not that great of a difference, it's proportionally similar to the difference between India and Germany. Just try and imagine India buying out all of the german political establishment through corruption. That would be impossible.

 

[Will76]

The author of the article questions whether Zeihan has ever set foot in China. I’d take it one step further. He hasn’t even set foot in an American Walmart or McDonald’s.

I can't believe I used to listen to Zeihan's videos. He's soft-spoken and fooled me into thinking he knew what he was talking about. I thought his videos on the food production crisis were interesting, but ever since he started talking about how China, Russia, and the entire world collapse, but somehow America survives, and how everything would be fine even if the entire earth except that part were to be erased, It is illogical and biased.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

Directly quoted from the Chinese Aviation Industry Thread.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of Japan has officially terminated the MRJ SpaceJet regional jet project, and will liquidate its Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation subsidiary.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1622945567147167747

From the tweet:


Partially quoted from a reply:


I think we can learn two things from this:

1. It is no easy feat for any country to develop, build and maintain sizeable passenger jetliners. So far, other than the US and Russia, no individual countries, even those with advanced technological and scientific capabilities, are able to completely master the construction of indigenous sizeable passenger jetliners on their own.

Right now, China is the only one out of everyone else who is working hard with tears-and-sweat to fully enter this category.

2. China's ARJ21 regional jet and soon C919 narrowbody airliner can only be made into reality and success thanks to the immense support and backing by the entirety of the citizens, government and country of China.

Japan is failing to master many of the newest foundational technologies of the time and is mostly living off of old Imperial and Cold War era achievements.

 

[infinity_wor;d]

about Syria: there is a large group of the remain of ISIS, "FREE SYRIA ARMY" and other terrorist groups gathering at the Syria side of the Turkey-Syria border. Syria's army (and Iran, Russia) blocked that area from their people but failed to destroy those bastards due to a nearby US military base. If this is a more minor earthquake that only gets those bastards in trouble, I would be pretty happy.

 

[ansy1968]

I can't believe I used to listen to Zeihan's videos. He's soft-spoken and fooled me into thinking he knew what he was talking about. I thought his videos on the food production crisis were interesting, but ever since he started talking about how China, Russia, and the entire world collapse, but somehow America survives, and how everything would be fine even if the entire earth except that part were to be erased, It is illogical and biased.

The same can be said about Ian Bremmer and many more Influencers, we have to exclude comrade Chang, he had his patriotic duty to perform so he is special BUT the rest is out of their depth...lol

 

[Blitzo]

I don't know, I found the time they got shot up for insulting Mohammad pretty funny.

Yeah, this does cross the line.

Sentence: 1 week ban -- with immediate permanent ban on next offense.
Now, a week might seem light, but let me be clear -- the next time that anything remotely controversial is posted by you, there will be an immediate permanent ban. No discussion, no protests. You've had enough warnings before and even banned before with subsequent retractions. I thought with that many warnings you would recognize that being on your best, PG rated behaviour and keeping a perfectly clean nose would be your number one priority, but perhaps this will make it more obvious.

To everyone at large, this forum is not reddit, it isn't a playground for people to crack abhorrent jokes about violence. Just because other forums and message boards are more virulent, toxic and racist doesn't mean this forum shouldn't set its own standards for itself.
Take some pride in what you're writing here.

 

[daifo]

For the state of the union speech, Biden only briefly talk about China being more a economic competitor rather than some super hawkish tirade.

 

[Maikeru]

For the state of the union speech, Biden only briefly talk about China being more a economic competitor rather than some super hawkish tirade.

Yes, much more focussed on Russia/Ukraine, what he said about China was about as short and anodyne as it could be given the recent balloon shenanigans. He got a bit ranty about "what other world leader would want to change places with Xi Jinping" though, I immediately thought "Vladimir Putin".

 

[siegecrossbow]

Yes, much more focussed on Russia/Ukraine, what he said about China was about as short and anodyne as it could be given the recent balloon shenanigans. He got a bit ranty about "what other world leader would want to change places with Xi Jinping" though, I immediately thought "Vladimir Putin".

I know for a fact that Donald Trump would love to trade places with his good friend Xi Jinping.

 

[Temstar]

For the state of the union speech, Biden only briefly talk about China being more a economic competitor rather than some super hawkish tirade.

They want that meeting with China, it can't be more obvious. They want China's help on something, most likely for help with that economic crisis on the horizon or at least for China to not kick US while they're down. But instead of doing, as Xi would put it "create the right conditions" they have to keep the illusion that they are still speaking from a position of strength. That's why FMA wasn't impressed and didn't formally extend the invite to Blinken all this time.

Problem is even if Whitehouse want to show some good will gesture their political system means the GOP will always get in their way and call them weak on China and Beijing Biden and so on. They've propagandized their own population into a corner. By keep saying "the free people of NATO have to help Ukraine win, or the dark lord Putin will cover the lands in a second darkness" and "we have to beat China or it will be the jackboot of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics on the face of humanity forever" you leave yourself with no option to backdown.