And 3rd strongest AF in the world IAF will work the RAF into the ground
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What's the point of even playing by the rules when clearily they are not being enforced properly? I'm actually surprised China has managed to get past most of the legal and compliance bs unlike other nations like Russia. All those years of officials quoting some very obscure rule to convince the emperor to have their ways still works today I guess.
You know I think it's better to be an enemy of India than to be neutral or worse it's "friend". Might be one of the best decisions China ever made.
Cheers to another bunch of lost decades.
I always found it funny how everyone just ignores the fact that for the first 10 years of Bitcoin's existence: the period where it's far easier to mine new coins than now, China made up more than half of the world's hash rate, and even after banning trading China continued to allow bitcoin mining for a few years afterwards.
You don't understand how supply chain works:
1 - Supply chain only cares about quantity, not USD value, a circuit board or machine won't function regardless if the missing parts are $1 or $1,000 part. It also doesn't matter if you can make 1,000 chips if you need 1 million chips to keep your business afloat, the seller can raise price of each chip by 1,000x so the 1,000 chips has the same "value" as 1 million chips, you'll still be missing the 999k chips and you'll still go out of business. This is eactly what's happening with western automakers right now due to Nexperia.
2 - Parts in machines, or chips in circuit boards can't be arbitarily replaced with any other regardless how much they cost, the fact that Nexperia only makes generic MOSFETS and discrete and yet losing Chinese production is enough to shut down global automakers should give you a clue. The supply chain is CHAIN, where disconnection of a single link is enough to break the entire system, and that link can only be replaced by an exact replica.
3 - China's dominance doesn't come from montary value of what China sells, the entirity of China's RE export doesn't evne register as a a rounding error in China's overall export. China dominance come from the fact that every supply CHAIN on earth passes through China AND China is the only country that has within its border the entire chain from start to finish. It means China can shut down production of anything and everything by cutting a link in the chain that passes through it, regardless if that link is $1 or $1 million. The only way for any country or group of countries to overcome this is to establish the ENTIRE chain outside China and for every part down to ones that cost only 1 cent, and do so at the exact same scale as China currently has. In other words, they need to build another China.
Software, unlike real things, are infinitely reproducable, can be done at zero cost and can be transported instantly, the production of software doesn't require any capital, only intellgent people and time. As it turns out China also has the world's largest collection STEM grads, by FAR, and China has already developed a replacement for every US software that can be shipped to anyone at speed of light. There are no such thing as "critical software", there are only software that one choose to use and software that one did not choose to use.
There is simply no comparison between non-fungable, real physical things and fungiable fictious assets.
They have the unique experience of intercepting PL-15 which the Brits think they might need in the future.
China is too big to sanction. If IOC kicks out China, it will just create its own rival olympic which most of the global south will likely attend thus splitting olympics.
From what I can see that raid happened around Center, Lafayette and Walker streets which are on peripheries of Chinatown; perhaps that is why not many Asians are seen in that video.