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tygyg1111

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ougoah

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Russia would have scored second based on points if they weren't banned from participating as a nation rather than as individuals.

Diversity quotas are the only reason east Asians make up the majority (sometimes the entirety) of western teams. The white Anglos and Americans were simply superior in morals and let the Asians take their place so they feel included. Diversity quotas met and exceeded. Well done to the team organisers for USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and so on.
 

zhangjim

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This is the exact same stuff they told Chinese. Just make those shoes, don't worry about aerospace, your products may be nice but they 'just don't fit the western standards'. And in the 1980's, they were believed!
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because Deng ordered that it was an "inefficient throwback to Maoism".

Instead China was to license build 'advanced' McDonnell Douglas planes.
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despite thousands of planes being ordered. McDonnell Douglas then went out of business in the 90's, meaning those planes became abandoned tech with no support. China then had no domestic civilian aerospace industry at all. Chinese are still paying for this fateful decision.

Then you have the automotive case, too much to write about. That is how close China came to becoming Ukraine.
If you knew how messy and sloppy the development of Y-10 was, you wouldn't think it was a good idea.
The whole project was seriously disturbed by crazy political enthusiasm.When designing the lighting source of the aircraft cab, it was once required to use "socialist" bright incandescent lamps, and it was not allowed to use dim and sluggish "capitalist" lighting.
Although the prototype took off successfully, it was a miracle that there was no crash.

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This answer well illustrates the technical hidden dangers of Y-10.At the same time, he also mentioned some political reasons implicitly.
 

solarz

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Just waiting for when a pure-breed-all-white American would self-identify as undisputed international Olympics maths champion and demand the trophy. Game, set and check-mate you dirty foreign commie nerds!

When I was in university, the same-sex marriage debate was just getting started. One of the conservative talk points was that it would lead to a slippery slope.

Well, turns out they weren't wrong.
 

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Banana republic

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Truly banana republic indeed. But the Nikkei Asia is still trying to spin this as a positive thing for India:
Many analysts say New Delhi is on track to hit its 650 billion rupee ($8.2 billion) target for privatization and other divestments in the current fiscal year, welcome news for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who needs the money to finance the country's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and to help fund a revamp of India's sprawling rail and road networks.
Off course, it just had to be a Jai Hind writer:
Kiran Sharma, Nikkei staff writer.JPG
Modi is not only raising desperate funds by selling government shares. He is also accelerating privatization in India. Off course the West, the capitalists, and the Jai Hinds will praise this 'Modinomics'. But real history always showed that rapid privatization does not work for developing economies. This is the path the the ex-Soviet successor states followed, and it resulted in deindustrialization, and economic dependency on the EU. So, Modinomics is gonna be a blessing for India and all of Asia. Jai Hind!
 

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Former US defence chief says one-China policy has ‘outlived its usefulness​

  • Mark Esper tells Taiwanese president it’s time to move away from ‘strategic ambiguity’
  • ‘Bold decisions’ by Taipei, such as longer military service and more defence spending, would show island is committed to standing up to Beijing, he says
“It is my personal view that the one-China policy has outlived its usefulness, that it is time to move away from strategic ambiguity,” he said in a meeting with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen at her office on Tuesday.
Esper is heading a three-member delegation of the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, on a four-day Taiwan visit that began on Monday.
 
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