Ain't democracy great.
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The massacre the US government and Zionists politicians are desperate to erase from US memory.
supercat
Colonel
Not surprisingly, KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun triggered some who want Taiwan to be the second Ukraine.
I'm shocked, shocked! Reuters is biased against China!
I'm shocked, shocked! Reuters is biased against China!
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I love how Western media automatically labels concept artwork and vague mock-ups of FCAS or GCAP as "6th gen" by countries who never built a 5th gen before.
But the same media outlets are super cautious to avoid label "6th gen" to already flying J-36 or J-50 (becuz we don't know, has a Western inspected first hand?) when there is video evidence and close pics and when China has been flying 5th gen for decades.
The irony when they can't even agree on basic workshare on a concept artwork. GCAP will have the same fate over funding.
This is an article on the subject from an opposition website. You can see that the majority of Singapore netizens are not convinced about the racialization of immigration discourse. The problem is, not everyone reads articles, as many just read headlines, and many others are just looking for excuses to shut down or derail debate on topics they don't like to hear about, e.g. "You can't say that, that's racist" "Indiapore? At least not Chinapore!" "Are you a CCP agent?" It does not help that the ruling party has been building up its "case" about China-based "Singapore-themed news websites" for some years now, to prove there is "foreign interference" and scare Singaporeans. The ruling party is supplying such people with discursive ammunition. I cannot emphasize enough how sacrosanct racial harmony and non-interference are in Singapore since independence, and are constantly reinforced in National Education and government propaganda broadcasting. These are treated as seriously as preventing insults against Prophet Muhammad in Islamist countries, or China-bashing in the US. The situation in Singapore must be handled delicately, with Singaporean hands.
Lethe
Captain
The failure of the French and Germans to agree on a workable path forward together certainly calls for some level of mockery and schadenfreude, but this doesn't mark the death of future European manned combat aircraft development. On the contrary, the basic obstacle was that each major party was unwilling to cede enough workshare and control to the other to satisfy them. The French and Germans each wanted more, not less. The most likely eventual outcome is that we will see additional future European combat aircraft programs rather than fewer. Those projects may arrive later, be delivered in fewer numbers with higher long-term sustainment costs, and perhaps even be broadly inferior to a joint solution, but they'll exist.
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Problem is individually, none of these countries have enough capital (all forms including economic and human) to pump into the necessary R&D and even eventual manufacturing for current technology platforms. Going solo is going to being extremely challenging.