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CasualObserver

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Temstar said:
All the usual PLA watching sources on Weibo are talking about it implying it was J-15T, for example:
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1) Since it is a 4.5th-gen jet with a larger RCS, I figure they might not have focused as much on the LPI, instead prioritizing a reliable, high-quality track over longer distances.

As per the manufacturer, the GaN antennas on both the F-16 Özgür (MURAD-100A) and the Kizilelma (MURAD-200A), which recently launched a BVRAAM, are basically the same. However, the improved LPI performance required by the Kizilelma is apparently enough to justify granting it another code representing a capability leap. Could this be the same case here?

2) A more likely possibility is that, since this incident occurred at close range, the signals are stronger, making it easier for the RWR to pick them up.
 
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IndiGO cancels more than 1000 flights in a matter of hours as the new Indian government rules for lesser working hours kicked in. Thousands of passengers are upset. Government and IndiGo blame each other for the crisis.


The Indian government have put out new rules to reduce pilot working hours to improve safety. However, IndiGo couldn't or wouldn't comply to the new rules until it came into effect. So now they are short 935 pilots and 205 first officers to fly their current flight schedule under the new ruling. Therefore, the only feasible way forward for Indigo is to cancel flights. Knowing Supapowar India, this kind of administration fiasco doesn't surprise me.
 
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iewgnem

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Tomboy said:
Let's not pretend world politics ever had a single shred of morality to it from the get go. It's all just leverage and gains. China is no different. I don't see why China has to lose on softpower and profit due to some people's subjective sense of moral superiority.
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This is something that always catches barbarians with their primitive morals off guard. In primitive cultures, if one is powerful then surely one will take what they want from the weak, and if one is moral then surely one will be selfless, it follows then that if one is not selfless then they must not be moral -> if they're not moral then they must want to steal -> if they don't steal then they must be weak.

China follows a simple principle, one that's proven to be optimal in game theory: you don't fuck with us, we don't fuck with you, if you fuck with us, you get fucked. China is moral because China doesn't rape and pillage the weak when its powerful, and China is also moral because China will always fuck up its enemies without mercy nor forgiveness, even if its weak and has to wait a century. It's the last part that catches barbarians off guard, barbarians who only understand strength and simple right-wrong morality.

China does not fuck with the west because China is strong, China fucks with the west because the west has fucked with China, and China didn't become the oldest civilization in history by taking prisoners. See, China also figured out the solution to the problem of "an eye for an eye leaves the world blind", China takes two eyes for an eye.

Western industry was built on colonialism, and China will leave no survivors.
 
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iewgnem

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Overbom said:
It's only some bureaucratic delays, Chinese officials just want to ensure that J gets the best quality rare earth materials
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China accounts for 70% of global rare earth production, but export procedures to Japanese companies are delayed. Deteriorating Japan-China relations are blamed for "shaking things up."​

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Its cute they think its only delayed.
 
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There is a fundamental misunderstanding on China’s part as to what they think a state visit is for and what westerners think it’s for. To China, these visits are typically thought of as reinforcing and expanding relationships and friendships with other countries. An opportunity to bond. For westerners, these visits are only pomp and circumstance to demonstrate their own importance in front of their own populace and the rest of the world and maybe and opportunity to enact or pry out some kind of advantage whilst in the host country. Parasitic thinking. Should China start considering more the perspective of who they are dealing with and adjusting more instead of trying to push through “win-win” type offers that will always get taken advantage of and never reciprocated?
 
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France's Macron threatens China with tariffs over trade surplus - Les Echos​

PARIS, Dec 7 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said he had threatened Beijing with tariffs during his state visit to China if there was no action taken to reduce the country's ever-widening trade deficit with the European Union.

During Macron's visit earlier in December, he urged China to boost cooperation on "unsustainable" global trade imbalances, geopolitics and the environment.

"I tried to explain to the Chinese that their trade surplus is unsustainable because they are killing their own customers, particularly by no longer importing much from us," Macron said in an interview published on Sunday by French daily Les Echos.

"I told them that if they do not react, we Europeans would be forced, in the coming months, to take strong measures following the example of the United States, such as imposing tariffs on Chinese products," he added.

The EU's goods trade deficit with China has ballooned by nearly 60% since 2019, while France's trade balance with the $19 trillion economy continues to widen.

Macron has in the past sought to project a robust European front in dealing with China, pushing Brussels to deploy protectionist countermeasures to slow the arrival of Chinese goods hammering European industry.

Macron told Les Echos that the European industry was in a tough position, caught between U.S. President Donald Trump's protectionism and China, which "is hitting the heart of the European industrial and innovation model".

"Today, we are caught between the two and it is a matter of life or death for the European industry. We have become the adjustment market and this is the worst-case scenario," he added.

Macron also said he was proposing a more conciliatory approach towards China, such as the dismantling of restrictions on exports of semiconductor machinery on the European side and limitations on exports of rare earths on the Chinese side.

Macron called on Chinese companies to invest in Europe and to "create value and opportunities for Europe".
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Macron called on Chinese companies to invest in Europe and to "create value and opportunities for Europe".
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"I told them that if they do not react, we Europeans would be forced, in the coming months, to take strong measures following the example of the United States, such as imposing tariffs on Chinese products," he added.
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Little napoleon is demanding that China give them billions in tribute. Obviously because Project Ukraine is imploding and the cheap Russian energy will no longer flow to Europe. Thus rendering Europe as a non competitive industry. They wanted to balkanized Russia and directly control their natural resources and it has backfired badly.

I bet they want to play the Nexperia playbook again. China must invest hundreds of billions, transfer all their technology, and when everything is built. It is now a national security threat and therefore the investments, technology, and IP will be seized and redistributed among their European Elites.
 
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