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Why is the US intervening? Japan companies can sign End User Agreements unless the Takaichi government forcing them no to.
I think that there are some major differences between GCAP and FCAS. FCAS was always going to fail because it never had all that much urgency behind it, and what France and Germany wanted out of the program were never compatible. France needs a do everything plane that can carry nuclear weapons and is CATOBAR-capable. Germany doesn't have a need for any of that so why would they put money and effort into it?
In comparison, Japan needs their plane yesterday. Even if Britain or Italy were to drop out, I can see Japan trying to stick it out on its own. How successful this will be is questionable, but there's a chance they'll get there. That said, for all the urgency behind GCAP, I don't see the program making progress anytime soon. There's simply too much technology risk involved, and having so many countries with their finger in the pie. I suspect the first flight to be somewhere around 2035 if things go smoothly.
Western countries can't even determine what they'll look like five years from now; releasing plans for ten years down the line is pure empty talk.
If these government officials had even a shred of responsibility, they should be releasing annual work plans instead of just a distant plan for ten years from now.
An interesting demographic insight about the Phillipines:
With a population of 117 million, there are ~14 million single mothers. Compare that to the larger population US, which is infamous for single black mothers, at ~11 million single mothers.
Due to a combination of laws, religion & culture, there is an significant amount of single mothers in the Philippines.
Catholicism making it difficult to divorce, teenage pregnancies, & a large amount of deadbeat fathers who fail to provide good role models for fatherless boys & girls alike.
This post was inspired by the recent Asian Boss video, "Why Filipino Women Are Choosing to Stay Single Forever":
With a population of 117 million, there are ~14 million single mothers. Compare that to the larger population US, which is infamous for single black mothers, at ~11 million single mothers.
Due to a combination of laws, religion & culture, there is an significant amount of single mothers in the Philippines.
Catholicism making it difficult to divorce, teenage pregnancies, & a large amount of deadbeat fathers who fail to provide good role models for fatherless boys & girls alike.
This post was inspired by the recent Asian Boss video, "Why Filipino Women Are Choosing to Stay Single Forever":
These people are protesting against there own interest.
Serbia who is opposite of Albania has benefited enormously from UAE. Saudis with greater Soft power may not want deal directly with small country like Albania who is not really independent so they have to find person who is popular in Eastern Europe.
You'd think that a country that is famous for exporting their women for labor overseas as maids and nannies (who also risk getting exploited horrifically) while the husbands stay home and collect the remittances and play with their side-pieces would have more women be skeptical before opening up their legs for the local men. It's this kind of wide-spread laissez faire culture that is deadly for a country's development.
I'm actually curious.
How much pull does the west have over SG practically speaking? How about India or China?
I mean SG on paper is an independent country and does it own thing. But we know reality isn't so nice like that and there's a lot SG wants to avoid doing or pissing off people it is heavily dependent on for certain things.