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supercat
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You have to be careful with Polymarket, because US citizens are not allowed to bet on it, so it only reflects foreigners' and American expats' opinions. Also, you can only use cryptocurrency to bet, potentially skewing the bias further.
"The U.S. Navy faces a critical shortage of submarines amid increasing global threats, particularly from rivals equipped with advanced anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) capabilities like China. The Virginia-class submarine program is $17 billion over budget, raising concerns about the Navy's ability to meet peacetime and wartime demands."
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"China is writing the world’s technology rules
It is setting standards for everything from 6G to quantum computing"
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"China is writing the world’s technology rules
It is setting standards for everything from 6G to quantum computing"
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You just made the point here that's the crux of every Rome-China historical comparison. Of course a civilization that controlled as many territories and was as advanced as the Romans were going to leave a legacy. But that's not people are discussing in Rome-China debates because if we were judging the continuity of empires by their legacy then that opens a whole can of worms. As an example, Modern Indians speak English, have a parliament system of government, and at least upper class Indians are educated in the British style, can they claim to be a successor to the British Empire?
The exact point people make is that unlike Rome, China maintained enough of a cohesive internal structure to largely preserve its territorial, linguistic, and core cultural identity for millenia to this day where its one of the world's great powers. What Rome left behind in the Western Empire after its collapsed was the Roman Catholic church, ie. one institution that exercised profound religious authority perhaps but had no head of state, no bureacracy managing territory outside of Rome, and projected little military or economic power compared to even its neighboring city states like Florence nevermind the other European kingdoms. You had barbarian tribes that claimed to be successors to Rome, but whose territories themselves were just a loose patchwork of fiefdoms and duchies that only acted cohesively during times of military campaigns and outside of that often fought eachother. They followed the heed of the Catholic Church, but inherited none of the wisdom or governing efficiency of the Romans needed to administer large territories and promote trade or urbanization. It was wisdom they didn't even have access to until the Arabs reintroduced it to them.
And that's Western Europe, the most ostensible direct offshoot of Rome was Byzantium and we all know how their story ended in 1453.
I would say that the British Empire, and its legacy of slavery, colonialism and a highly stratified society, indeed lives on in India. The original UK on the other hand has been taken over by the neolib/neocon empire.
All things are relative, 1.5x Virginia a year only become critically low next to how many China's building.
And how many China's building is totally very little of course, because everyone knows Chinese submarines are so loud they can be detected from Hawaii, since they haven't detected any new Chinese SSNs from Hawaii, and China never showed any subs being launched, the only conclusion is China's not building any SSNs.
AssassinsMace
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Interference is another word for China got their first. The US and West want China to follow their standards so they can ban China from it. Only in the West that sounds reasonable. The US and the West can just not follow Chinese standards. Who's going to win when it's the West weaponizing everything in their control? Another edge China has... it's cheaper than the West and most like is or will be better than theirs. So who is the world going to choose? That's what's alarming for the West. The West is all about expensive low quality crap. What do they think they have that trumps it? Because it's from white people...?
I just saw an article on US versus China on AI? China is not going to adopt US AI so what's the problem? The problem is they want Chinese worshipping their AI God telling the Chinese and the world to worship white people as Gods. Why do you think after "Oct. 7th," the US admitted how angry they were at how they were not in control of all media in the world. What are they worried about Chinese AI...? It won't be as restrictive as US AI. Ironic. Now who's for freedom again...? It's a joke the West claims they're for freedom given their history. Today is no different. Western freedom is less freedom for everyone else.
yup Qwen openweight models put "Open"AI to shame....