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Dep. SECDEF says: “we’re changing the game,” and in “classified war games these approaches are paying off.”
We are winning!



“The PRC’s strengths in intellectual property theft and sheer industrial capacity make them talented fast-followers. So we must be careful about what we say and what we show, because a long-term investment can only be revealed once. And we must constantly push to grow our lead.”
Finally the reason why NGAD is not being revealed lol
 

siegecrossbow

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Ringsword

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I too would give my right arm for a chance to sh*t on the street. And good thing it's my left that does the wiping.

File this with the India 2030 supapowa video, it will be funnier to let it lie and then break it out after everyone's forgotten about it
No, we will break this article out when China reunifies Taiwan,establishes Moonbase(mining Helium3),utterly dominates world economy,utterly dominates Asia,launches 7 Gen air/space battlecruiser,makes Japanese Emperor Naruhito kowtow 3 times at Nanjing War Memorial,etcBTW has vishwaguru Modi gotten invite yet to Lord Orange Emperor Trump's Inauguration?I thought not even at 10 times ticket price.
 

zyklon

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US does not
If you think they should then China should also have jurisdiction over American citizens, which in this case would mean American citizens must comply with Chinese laws when it comes to ByteDance.

Generally speaking, I am of the belief that a country's jurisdiction should end where its borders end.

However, in practice things get a little more complicated:

For example, the US government tends to believe that they are right to prosecute anyone anywhere in the world if their alleged crime in some way, shape or form entailed a financial transaction executed in United States Dollars.

So for example: generally speaking, the US won't prosecute non-US citizens for buying Russian hydrocarbons with Russian currency, but they will or at least may prosecute you if you buy Russian hydrocarbons with American currency.

Is that reasonable of the US?

Moreover, the US, will at times, also prosecute foreigners who commit acts of violence (e.g. murder) against American citizens on foreign soil

This is probably too much for non-Americans to consider acceptable, and is arguably a violation of foreign sovereignty.

Yet, China has also prosecuted and even executed foreigners responsible for the murder of Chinese citizens abroad. The most well known case involved foreign nationals who murdered 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in either Thailand or Burma around 2011.

Though these days, even those engaging in telecom fraud against victims located in China may find themselves extradited to China.

Is this reasonable of the US and China?

More than half of Americans are on TikTok and are on it for hours each day, do you think they'll stop doing that just because they have to visit a website to update their app? Apple is additionally subject to retaliation from China for doing anything outside US.

But even that point is moot, you don't need the app to view TikTok, they can and probably will just ban all American users from posting for their own safety. US government gave China an excuse to ban all American influencers, might as well use it.

I agree that there are certainly ulterior motives to Congress' decision to force upon TikTok a ban-or-sale, but that's the case with a lot of, if not most legislation. Such is politics . . .

Though at the end of the day, fairly certain that the US authorities can ban Americans from accessing TikTok with ease.

All they'll need to do is to seize TikTok's servers physically located in the US. No infrastructure, no service.
 

Ringsword

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Are beaches included?
Friend,if you ever come up here and go say fishing like I do or take a stroll along the area called the Beaches along Lake Ontario or very picturesque Lake Simcoe you best be very very careful in sandy areas lest you step on a pile of human feces like a stinking,fetid landmine where the recent invasive jeetjaihinds have like a deranged housecat poop along the beach/deserted areas and have been seen bathing/washing in shallow beaches and then move en masse into your picnic areas.It is truly unexplainable-maybe that's why Trump didn't invite modi lest the vishwaguru sees a pile of sand and drop trousers and goes a pooping ,wipes with left hand and then hugs,kisses Trump.Even the Secret Service couldn't save him then.
 

Biscuits

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Generally speaking, I am of the belief that a country's jurisdiction should end where its borders end.

However, in practice things get a little more complicated:

For example, the US government tends to believe that they are right to prosecute anyone anywhere in the world if their alleged crime in some way, shape or form entailed a financial transaction executed in United States Dollars.

So for example: generally speaking, the US won't prosecute non-US citizens for buying Russian hydrocarbons with Russian currency, but they will or at least may prosecute you if you buy Russian hydrocarbons with American currency.

Is that reasonable of the US?

Moreover, the US, will at times, also prosecute foreigners who commit acts of violence (e.g. murder) against American citizens on foreign soil

This is probably too much for non-Americans to consider acceptable, and is arguably a violation of foreign sovereignty.

Yet, China has also prosecuted and even executed foreigners responsible for the murder of Chinese citizens abroad. The most well known case involved foreign nationals who murdered 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in either Thailand or Burma around 2011.

Though these days, even those engaging in telecom fraud against victims located in China may find themselves extradited to China.

Is this reasonable of the US and China?
I'd say it's reasonable for China. When a benevolent ruler needs more power to get people together to build a better future, that's different from when a racist thug wants to intimidate others into a nihilistic, dead end future.
I agree that there are certainly ulterior motives to Congress' decision to force upon TikTok a ban-or-sale, but that's the case with a lot of, if not most legislation. Such is politics . . .

Though at the end of the day, fairly certain that the US authorities can ban Americans from accessing TikTok with ease.

All they'll need to do is to seize TikTok's servers physically located in the US. No infrastructure, no service.
That's why China is fighting them on this, short of military intervention we can't absolutely prevent US from censoring tiktok, but we can make it hurt their reputation so much that US gets deterred every time they consider it.
 
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