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Abominable

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Overbom said:
If you are going to invest so much money you also need to protect it.

Myanmar is gone. Pakistan is also semi-gone (probably 100% gone after its current government economically collapses the country). Sri Lanka is gone (no way the CIA will let a China-friendly person come in power).

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China has nothing to do with what's happened in Sri Lanka. It's more western propaganda.

Thanks to the global warming cult, the west bribed/blackmailed Sri Lanka to give up modern agricultural practices and switch to organic farming. The result, a collapse in harvests last year. The result, a previously self sufficient country was forced to import rice for the first time.
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Then they forced Sri Lanka to impose sanctions on Russia, meaning they would have to pay the inflated costs on the current market rather than the cheaper Russian prices.

When they said they would buy food/oil from Russia because that's all they could afford, they withdrew IMF funding, causing the situation we see today. A lack of fuel impacted agriculture further and you've got millions of starving Sri Lankans angry at their leaders.

If anyone was wondering why I dislike the west and Ukrainians so much, it's because of things like this.
 
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solarz

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One more thing I want to mention: the best counter to Western propaganda is to let people see for themselves the result of believing that propaganda.

China did exactly that in HK. It allowed Western media to run amok twisting black into white. It ultimately proved to be the most effective anti-brainwashing experience so far.
 
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solarz said:
One more thing I want to mention: the best counter to Western propaganda is to let people see for themselves the result of believing that propaganda.

China did exactly that in HK. It allowed Western media to run amok twisting black into white. It ultimately proved to be the most effective anti-brainwashing experience so far.
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The HK putsch failed because the pro-western terrorists were quickly apprehended and either exiled or given long prison sentences.

Uprisings in the west aren't given any air to breath, like the Canadian trucker protests or the Dutch farmer protests right now. Propaganda is the only thing the west is good at, giving them a free hand is suicide.
 
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Topazchen

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Sardaukar20 said:
Its just a proposal by a Chinese lawmaker. In that same article itself, there is argument against the dropping the English subject. It even looks to be unlikely to happen.



Personally, I think it is a bad idea to drop the English language. Learning English is what makes the Chinese people more aware of what is going on in the world. It is still an important language globally, despite the rising interest in Mandarin Chinese. In fact the Chinese should strive to improve the mastery of the English language. Not every Chinese will be proficient, but that is not the objective. The objective is the ability to access foreign knowledge.

Besides, from a military-intelligence standpoint, the Chinese can understand the Americans, the West, and Indians far better than the other way round. The PLA will have many more soldiers who could understand the enemy's language than the other way round. That is a powerful advantage. A PLA soldier with a basic understanding of English could pick up some words from enemy communications, or understand the enemy's written words. On the other side, the average US Marine, or Jawan cannot understand what the Chinese are communicating to each other. Even fewer would be able to read Chinese characters. They would need language specialists for the job, making the deciphering process slower. The same works even better in the information war, espionage war.
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English is now a somewhat neutral language and apart from the useful business functions, it enables you to easily identify and respond to your enemy's propaganda.

Let as many people as possible learn English.
 
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Michaelsinodef

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Topazchen said:
English is now a somewhat neutral language and apart from the useful business functions, it enables you to easily identify and respond to your enemy's propaganda.

Let as many people as possible learn English.
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English space is filled with pro-capitalist and pro-imperialist media/voices though, so even if the language is 'neutralish' learning english can have people get fooled.

With that said, China really needs to improve it's education, especially on socialism/communism as well as the grim realities of capitalism and (neo-)imperialism.
 
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pakje

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Temstar said:
I offer a recent price point for the ratio:

ZTQ-15 and PRC Light Tanks

Korean TO will need those southern and western units, though. Partially because we're talking about a very big conflict, partially because of the terrain. p.s. furthermore, let's wait and see where Chinese battle orders will move in the future. Type 96 family is out of production - and since...
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US approved a 35 ton light tank last week, costs just shy of 12 million USD each. Conceptually it's a lot like a Type-15 only bigger and heavier because it uses a 4 man crew and no autoloader.

I tried to look up price for Type 15 and as best I can tell it's somewhere over 1 million USD and below 2 million USD. So we're talking a ratio of 6-12 times. Not quite as extreme as 1 to 20 but it's up there.
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Also important to note is that the american light tank is based on the existing ajax chassis whereas the ZTQ-15 is completely bespoke and new
 
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