Quite an accomplishment for Hikvision to still get its products used in government institutions of the second most anti-China, racist country in the world.
Congrats on your success Hikvision, and may the good work continue.
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Congrats on your success Hikvision, and may the good work continue.
Sure government can be held account for civilian’s problem. But in this case the American government called wrong person! As this ballon isn’t a military craft, the American government shouldn’t have called the Chinese defence minister. From Chinese defence minister’s point of view, why should he pick up the phone when the matter doesn’t belong to his department. Next time before make any phone calls, make sure calling the right person…
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"Chinese officials rejected a request from the U.S. defense secretary to speak with his counterpart after an American fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon.
The U.S. apparently detected the balloon on January 29 when it was over the Aleutian Islands. Austin could have called his Chinese counterpart anytime in the seven days between that detection and the time the decision was taken to shot it down"
"Chinese officials rejected a request from the U.S. defense secretary to speak with his counterpart after an American fighter jet shot down a Chinese spy balloon.
That statement by the Pentagon immediately raises a question. Why hadn't the U.S. defense secretary called the Chinese defense minister before shooting down the Chinese weather ballon?
The U.S. apparently detected the balloon on January 29 when it was over the Aleutian Islands. Austin could have called his Chinese counterpart anytime in the seven days between that detection and the time the decision was taken to shot it down"
A clear example of American short-sightedness and will eventually be the undoing of any good will Europe had towards America.
Looks like the worst secretary of state in US history failed the mirror test because he confused a mirror with Xi.
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The US SecDef doesn't just 'cold call' the Chinese Defence Minister. There would've presumably been preliminary communiques between the two sides at the departmental level on the nature of the phone call before leadership at the Chinese MoD then decides whether to accept the American request for a ministerial call.
All that is to say China most certainly already knew what the phone call was about. If it's a cross-border civilian matter, which this is, it ought to be civilian government institutions that deal with said matter i.e. between the US State Department and China MFA, not Lloyd Austin telling Wei Fenghe to pick up the phone and be like: "Dude, what's with the balloon?"
The dirty mainstream press makes little or no mention of Syria, while barbarian nations (the west) refuse to help or lift sanctions...
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Risk and opportunity, mate.
If the power-that-be believe they can win before nukes come into play, then war is just good business.
Do remember it took only 2 bullets to start WW1. A spade of hate crimes against Chinese Americans, or a slip of trigger discipline in frontline standoff...the ruling elites may think brinkmanship won't result in actual war, but the actual slip is far easier than many would want to believe.