any American migrant to China must be female and under 25, and with a Chinese male partner to produce children; we will not tolerate leeches who contribute nothing to China.
BMI also needs to be lower than 25.
any American migrant to China must be female and under 25, and with a Chinese male partner to produce children; we will not tolerate leeches who contribute nothing to China.
BMI also needs to be lower than 25.
Humor aside, the Soviet Union was a superpower but it is interesting to think Sputnik was the only time it seriously challenged the West's tech supremacy before the long decline of the 70s and 80s. Sputnik would be fitting if China broke through in one core technology, but China already did that with telecomms and since the year began we've been getting almost one tech breakthrough a month. In which case the Sputnik comparison gets rendered moot.Deepseek: Sputnik moment. Hypersonic DF-17: Sputnik moment. Two advanced next-generation Chinese stealth fighter prototypes: Sputnik moment. Huawei smartphone with a 7nm CPU: Sputnik moment. HQ-19: Sputnik moment. So far, we've seen a hypersonic missile much less advanced than the Chinese ones (probably derived by some sixties' studies) and numerous attempts to block Chinese development, largely ineffective and counterproductive. It seems that America is now like its last two presidents: arrogant and not very capable of thinking. I propose to do a "sputnik moment" collection for the forum
number is at least a dozen and includes Federal watchdogs at the departments of State, Agriculture, Interior, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Education, Labor and Defense, as well as the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Energy Corp., and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Inspectors general are tasked with ridding the government of waste, fraud and abuse.