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I just use the more than 60 billion investment into Pakistan as an example that China is clearly willing to make a loss on geopolitical investments. But a strategy of putting all your eggs into very few baskets, like Pakistan, Venezuela and Angola, is not smart. Withholding investment from America's enemies is even worse.
Pakistan is a valuable ally, but other countries that actually have problems with America could be useful allies too, but if you allow them to be weakened by western sanctions, then you'll only end up trading with countries that are actually allies of the west, like Saudi Arabia
Man, Israelis are top notch and hardcore when it comes to defending and attacking what it deemed as an existential threat to their fundamental rights to exist.
What does that f...ng Beyonce knows about geopolitics or knowledge about China other than getting her information from the club she frequents to
Bit disappointed that Ding Liren lost to Gukesh at the world chess championship. It was so close to going to tiebreaks where Ding was favoured. However Ding screwed up at the last moment so here we are.
But to be fair Ding was ranked like #20 because of his bad form and people didn't really give him much chance. So getting this far despite being out of form and wanting to no longer be active is already something.
Personally I kinda get why chess under it's grueling 4+ hour game format will never take off in significant popularity. A lot of games were draws and that's going to kill interest. It takes far too much effort to prepare and honestly if you were that smart, you probably could be using your brains to actually contribute more in a technology field to make a difference.
The USSR kept boasting about it's chess talent. Yet the country for some reason decide to commit a game ending blunder in 1991 and kill itself. So that chess talent didn't help it's government much did it.
world has witnessed numerous drones’ standoff attacks and wars in the 21st Century. However, it was a mad race for the maximum capabilities- longest range and endurance, largest payload, longest power backup, deadliest munition, highest altitude, heaviest size, most secured communication, etc. Despite the hysteria surrounding drones, one thing that has stood out is that boots on ground still matter the most. However, the prolonged periods of static attrition warfare in the Russo-Ukraine conflict ushered in the era of small simple drones where innovative tactics and fastest speed in kamikaze style target engagements led to the introduction of First Person View (FPV) drones in the tactical battlespace. These highly affordable FPV drones have severely disrupted the survivability of those boots on ground, thereby forcing changes in combat tactics. The innovative evolution of FPV drones by both Ukraine and Russia has thus introduced a new paradigm in drone warfare on all critical combat fronts triggering changes conceptually, doctrinally, in organisation structures, technological evolution including counter measures, and calls for adoption of a coherent whole of nation approach (WONA)
"US House advances defence bill that bans Chinese goods from tech to garlic
The US$884 billion measure, which is considered ‘must-pass’ legislation, now moves to the US Senate.[...]"
"[...]Among other procurement restrictions, the bill bans the Pentagon from operating or contracting for light detection and ranging (lidar) technology manufactured in or using operating software developed in China. “Lidar, a remote sensing technology with both military and civilian applications, stands at the centre of Beijing’s bid for technological superiority,” said the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank.[...]"
"[...]Data concerns also drove provisions to prohibit Pentagon contracting with Chinese online tutoring companies and entities that provide semiconductor products and services to Chinese-owned Huawei. Meanwhile, agricultural safety and anti-competition worries prompted a ban on the sale of fresh or chilled Chinese garlic in US military commissaries[...]."
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The bill authorises the creation of an “advanced manufacturing facility” on or near a military installation within the US Indo-Pacific Command in order to “support the submarine, shipbuilding and other defence activity industrial bases”.
The bill also commissioned numerous China-focused studies, often crucial to setting up future legislation. This year, the NDAA mandates a report on the anti-competitive advantages benefiting the Shanghai Shipping Exchange, an international freight shipping group jointly established by China’s Ministry of Transport and the Shanghai municipal government.
In the past year, US lawmakers have warned that the exchange had a “stranglehold” on rate indexes for trade to and from the Indo-Pacific region, sparking concern that Chinese government manipulation could disadvantage American shippers.[...]"
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The legislation also mandates an assessment on the recruitment of Mandarin speakers in the intelligence community, a potential problem highlighted by congressional advisers amid the decrease of Americans studying in China; a report on Beijing’s efforts to evade US transparency and national security regulations; and an analysis of how Beijing is supporting China’s biotechnology industry.
Several key China-related measures lawmakers aimed to pass before the next Congress, which starts in January, did not make it.
These include restrictions on outbound US investment to China, prohibitions on federal contracting with major Chinese biotechnology companies, and legislation to for certain Chinese goods.[...]"
The US$884 billion measure, which is considered ‘must-pass’ legislation, now moves to the US Senate.[...]"
"[...]Among other procurement restrictions, the bill bans the Pentagon from operating or contracting for light detection and ranging (lidar) technology manufactured in or using operating software developed in China. “Lidar, a remote sensing technology with both military and civilian applications, stands at the centre of Beijing’s bid for technological superiority,” said the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank.[...]"
"[...]Data concerns also drove provisions to prohibit Pentagon contracting with Chinese online tutoring companies and entities that provide semiconductor products and services to Chinese-owned Huawei. Meanwhile, agricultural safety and anti-competition worries prompted a ban on the sale of fresh or chilled Chinese garlic in US military commissaries[...]."
"[...]
The bill authorises the creation of an “advanced manufacturing facility” on or near a military installation within the US Indo-Pacific Command in order to “support the submarine, shipbuilding and other defence activity industrial bases”.
The bill also commissioned numerous China-focused studies, often crucial to setting up future legislation. This year, the NDAA mandates a report on the anti-competitive advantages benefiting the Shanghai Shipping Exchange, an international freight shipping group jointly established by China’s Ministry of Transport and the Shanghai municipal government.
In the past year, US lawmakers have warned that the exchange had a “stranglehold” on rate indexes for trade to and from the Indo-Pacific region, sparking concern that Chinese government manipulation could disadvantage American shippers.[...]"
"[...]
The legislation also mandates an assessment on the recruitment of Mandarin speakers in the intelligence community, a potential problem highlighted by congressional advisers amid the decrease of Americans studying in China; a report on Beijing’s efforts to evade US transparency and national security regulations; and an analysis of how Beijing is supporting China’s biotechnology industry.
Several key China-related measures lawmakers aimed to pass before the next Congress, which starts in January, did not make it.
These include restrictions on outbound US investment to China, prohibitions on federal contracting with major Chinese biotechnology companies, and legislation to for certain Chinese goods.[...]"
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If you're top notch and hardcore when it comes to defending and attacking, you don't take more than 1 year and counting to take a city the size of Mariupol. Against people that don't even have manpads or real atgms.
You're insulting the people who are at the forefront of protecting their nations when you compare them with idiots and low iq inbreds who mostly waste time harassing civilians.
The equivalent of saying "hey there were many hardcore and top tier ww2 units, but one of the best among them must have been the 36th waffen SS!"