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Is this the reason it was badly damaged?
"It is highly likely the Connecticut is going to face months of repairs, if not years."
"Indeed, I think the assumption has to be that the US has lost one of it's most capable SSNs indefinitely. One would assume losing a rare Seawolf is going to hurt the Pacific force structure quite a bit."
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China demands details on US nuclear-powered submarine collision (08 OCT 2021)
TASS News Agency: According to the US Navy statement on October 2, US Navy nuclear-powered submarine USS Connecticut was damaged after it struck an unknown object while submerged in the waters of the Indo-Pacific region. According to media reports, the incident occurred in the waters of the South China Sea. Do you have any comments on this?
Zhao Lijian: We are gravely concerned about the incident. As the party involved, the US should clarify in specific details what happened, including the exact location of the incident, the US side's navigation intention, the details of the incident, the object the submarine struck, whether the collision caused a nuclear leak or damaged local marine environment, etc.
I would also like to stress three points about the incident.
First, the US has long been making trouble in the South China Sea in the name of "freedom of navigation", which poses a grave threat and major risks for regional peace and stability. This is the root cause of this incident.
Second, the US deliberately stalled and concealed the specifics of the incident. It lacks transparency and responsibility. China and other countries surrounding the South China Sea cannot help but ask what truly happened and what the US' intention is.
Third, we can also see the following from this incident. The US and the UK recently decided to conduct nuclear submarine cooperation with Australia, a non-nuclear weapon state, and flagrantly proliferate nuclear submarines in the Asia-Pacific. This is bound to create nuclear proliferation risks, spark an arms race and undermine efforts to establish a Southeast Asia nuclear-free-zone. The odds of a nuclear incident will also increase dramatically. The US should abandon the obsolete Cold War zero-sum mentality and narrow geopolitical notions and stop such erroneous practice that undermine regional peace, stability and development.
TASS News Agency: According to the US Navy statement on October 2, US Navy nuclear-powered submarine USS Connecticut was damaged after it struck an unknown object while submerged in the waters of the Indo-Pacific region. According to media reports, the incident occurred in the waters of the South China Sea. Do you have any comments on this?
Zhao Lijian: We are gravely concerned about the incident. As the party involved, the US should clarify in specific details what happened, including the exact location of the incident, the US side's navigation intention, the details of the incident, the object the submarine struck, whether the collision caused a nuclear leak or damaged local marine environment, etc.
I would also like to stress three points about the incident.
First, the US has long been making trouble in the South China Sea in the name of "freedom of navigation", which poses a grave threat and major risks for regional peace and stability. This is the root cause of this incident.
Second, the US deliberately stalled and concealed the specifics of the incident. It lacks transparency and responsibility. China and other countries surrounding the South China Sea cannot help but ask what truly happened and what the US' intention is.
Third, we can also see the following from this incident. The US and the UK recently decided to conduct nuclear submarine cooperation with Australia, a non-nuclear weapon state, and flagrantly proliferate nuclear submarines in the Asia-Pacific. This is bound to create nuclear proliferation risks, spark an arms race and undermine efforts to establish a Southeast Asia nuclear-free-zone. The odds of a nuclear incident will also increase dramatically. The US should abandon the obsolete Cold War zero-sum mentality and narrow geopolitical notions and stop such erroneous practice that undermine regional peace, stability and development.
CLEANING UP BUSINESS MONOPOLY AND ANTI-COMPETITIVE PRACTICES
A number of regulators in China handling the crackdown on its biggest tech giants, which are being punished for exhibiting too many monopolistic tendencies, among other transgressions, came through with another major fine at MEITUAN, and the fine handed down on Friday (08 October) was surprisingly small: the firm was hit with a fine of 3.44 billion yuan ($533 million) over its alleged monopolistic practices. The fine, which was barely 1/6th the size of the $2.8 BILLION hit that Alibaba took, plus the additional $15 BILLION Alibaba has committed for the government's COMMON PROSPERITY initiative, a broad initiative to improve the livelihood of the general populace and reduce the wealth inequality across the society.
The anti-monopoly probe into Meituan -- which began in April -- might be officially resolved according to the regulator, was said to be equivalent to about three per cent (3%) of Meituan’s TOTAL DOMESTIC REVENUE of 114.7 billion yuan ($17.8 BILLION) last year, per the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China’s main antitrust watchdog.
In the latest news out of China to suggest its crackdown on big tech has finally reached its conclusion, Meituan's fine was much smaller than anticipated, but China's market regulator also ordered Meituan TO REFUND exclusive cooperation DEPOSITS paid by merchants, totaling 1.29 billion yuan ($200 million).
The probe mainly focused on Meituan's involvement in the ANTI-COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY STANDARD known as "pick one of two". Effectively, the biggest Chinese tech firms would sign on restaurants or other businesses to work with their service, but if those smaller business chose to ALSO LIST ON ANOTHER PLATFORM, they would be BOOTED OFF of Meituan.
"We accept the penalty with sincerity and are determined to ensure our compliance with the decision and its terms," Meituan said in a statement.
Now imagine if the big business owners will learn such humility and grace... enforced by state, to correct their wrong business practices (monopolistic tendencies, anti-competitive practices, bad working conditions, etc) for the sake of the greater society, incl. their employees and business partners, and course, the consumers!
The Chinese government doesn't want the Big Corporations and their billionaires running the state like they do in other part of the world. PLUTOCRACY: government run by the elite, exclusively very wealthy class... buying up the politicians through political donations, various lobbies, high executive jobs for ex-government officers or politicians, ‘Revolving Door’ practices or switching jobs between governmental regulators and the corporations under their supervisions, etc.
Additionally, the company, founded by the 42-year-old billionaire Wang Xing, was previously urged to IMPROVE ITS WORKERS’ WORKING CONDITIONS, which have long been criticized as poor. In July, State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and six other government agencies ordered Meituan to pay its DELIVERY RIDERS more than the country’s minimum wage, and to release them from UNREASONABLE DEMANDS made by the company app's algorithms.
A number of regulators in China handling the crackdown on its biggest tech giants, which are being punished for exhibiting too many monopolistic tendencies, among other transgressions, came through with another major fine at MEITUAN, and the fine handed down on Friday (08 October) was surprisingly small: the firm was hit with a fine of 3.44 billion yuan ($533 million) over its alleged monopolistic practices. The fine, which was barely 1/6th the size of the $2.8 BILLION hit that Alibaba took, plus the additional $15 BILLION Alibaba has committed for the government's COMMON PROSPERITY initiative, a broad initiative to improve the livelihood of the general populace and reduce the wealth inequality across the society.
The anti-monopoly probe into Meituan -- which began in April -- might be officially resolved according to the regulator, was said to be equivalent to about three per cent (3%) of Meituan’s TOTAL DOMESTIC REVENUE of 114.7 billion yuan ($17.8 BILLION) last year, per the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), China’s main antitrust watchdog.
In the latest news out of China to suggest its crackdown on big tech has finally reached its conclusion, Meituan's fine was much smaller than anticipated, but China's market regulator also ordered Meituan TO REFUND exclusive cooperation DEPOSITS paid by merchants, totaling 1.29 billion yuan ($200 million).
The probe mainly focused on Meituan's involvement in the ANTI-COMPETITIVE INDUSTRY STANDARD known as "pick one of two". Effectively, the biggest Chinese tech firms would sign on restaurants or other businesses to work with their service, but if those smaller business chose to ALSO LIST ON ANOTHER PLATFORM, they would be BOOTED OFF of Meituan.
"We accept the penalty with sincerity and are determined to ensure our compliance with the decision and its terms," Meituan said in a statement.
Now imagine if the big business owners will learn such humility and grace... enforced by state, to correct their wrong business practices (monopolistic tendencies, anti-competitive practices, bad working conditions, etc) for the sake of the greater society, incl. their employees and business partners, and course, the consumers!
The Chinese government doesn't want the Big Corporations and their billionaires running the state like they do in other part of the world. PLUTOCRACY: government run by the elite, exclusively very wealthy class... buying up the politicians through political donations, various lobbies, high executive jobs for ex-government officers or politicians, ‘Revolving Door’ practices or switching jobs between governmental regulators and the corporations under their supervisions, etc.
Additionally, the company, founded by the 42-year-old billionaire Wang Xing, was previously urged to IMPROVE ITS WORKERS’ WORKING CONDITIONS, which have long been criticized as poor. In July, State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and six other government agencies ordered Meituan to pay its DELIVERY RIDERS more than the country’s minimum wage, and to release them from UNREASONABLE DEMANDS made by the company app's algorithms.
Jokes aside, you can tell it's really copium by how they're behaving. China deeply believes that it's managing the US's decline (because that's the reality) but it doesn't actually say that because you don't want to drive someone who's declining but still strong into desperation. China constantly reminding the US of its decline might cause it to do something crazy out of a "it's now or never" mentality.
You want to put the lunatic into the straitjacket as smoothly as possible and with minimum drama. If the US truly believed that that was what it was doing with China, it wouldn't say it.
You want to put the lunatic into the straitjacket as smoothly as possible and with minimum drama. If the US truly believed that that was what it was doing with China, it wouldn't say it.
Xi Jinping: Taiwan question will be resolved as national rejuvenation becomes reality
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that the Taiwan question arose out of weakness and chaos of the Chinese nation, and it will be resolved as national rejuvenation becomes a reality.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday that the Taiwan question arose out of weakness and chaos of the Chinese nation, and it will be resolved as national rejuvenation becomes a reality.
Looks like the Indians didn't come with non-lethal weapons, they actually came with guns; incredibly that the PLA, even in the thin atmosphere of the Himalayas managed to obliterate a fully armed indian invasion force with riot gear.