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Yeah, in the same way "people-to-people" connections actually mean "CIA-to-traitor" connections with America. I suppose if you admire that sort of thing you'd want the MSS to do something similar, but that isn't how China operates because spreading chaos doesn't get results.
"Hard results" like economic growth, infrastructure, and scientific might are ultimately all that matter. Soft power gets soft results, like the admiration of gullible simpletons.
I was just watching Zhang wei wei speech on the program, this is China. One of the audience jokingly mentioned putting all of china's rare metal processing in Xinjiang and see if western world still continue sanctioning them.
Again, what you're saying doesn't make sense.
For the latest Chinese reactors, the operating certificates are for the full 60 year service life, and they do not need additional safety systems during this time.
The existing reactors which were built decades ago in Germany and the US are reaching the end of their service lives and because the designs are so old, they need new safety systems to keep operating. But there is not much expertise available which makes it very expensive.
In terms of airliners, we currently have a duopoly with Airbus and Boeing. But we will almost certainly see COMAC become a true competitor in the future, so there would be 3 suppliers.
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Lol, Hollywood IS a joke. Well done China's film regulatory agency
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I look forward to a proper Red Dawn remake, not that lame excuse of one starring Thor.
He's somewhat right about US reactors though. Lots of american reactors needed significant expensive MLU which sometimes involved cutting a huge hole in the concrete dome. French and German reactors are being closed because of political reasons or as you say end of service life.
I would like to add the "60 year" service live is just a number, the real service life is likely a few hundred years with good maintenance and periodic upgrades. That's because along the way of making reactors resistant to world ending tsunamis and earthquakes you easily end up over 60 years.
Working on a nuclear refurbishment project just after graduation, all the engineers were either past early retirement age (50+, which they all were because they were all unionized under the former communist, correction… Canadian system) or in their 20’s.
The project ran into delay after delay because half the suppliers went out of business or no longer produced those nuclear certified parts. This was the natural outcome since basically no new plants were built in like the past 40 years in the Western Hemisphere outside of France.
With the green energy craze, everyone thought the renaissance was coming. Then Fukushima happened and that was that.