Basically:
The number of missiles US was meant to deliver to Taiwan this year:
- TOWS - 460
- Javlin - 400
- TOWS - 0
- Javlin - 0
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Basically:
The number of missiles US was meant to deliver to Taiwan this year:
I agree with Ms. Thunberg this time
I don't get it why Taiwan is so adamant on US weapons. They could buy European or Israelis no?
Taiwan is not buying US weapons, Taiwan is paying protection fees to daddy US.
They have gotten themselves mirages in the past. Wouldn't hurt to acquire other
weapons.
He dont have to not be. He can just be another deep state faction that dissent against current one. That alone is enough.
Indeed. Taiwan is paying protection fee to the don US for threats that the don US conjured up. The US is the biggest gangster regime in the world today.
it only means his Chinese skill is too low and that he can match native speakers only in everyday speech, not literary speech. Matching native speakers in everyday speech, even highly technical, only means that they are maybe middle school level.
Imagine if Putin wrote something like the below to
"I understand that you must navigate the Charybdis and Scylla of Ukraine with regards to domestic political constraints and the prospect of catastrophic escalation, but I warn that should you open Pandora's Box with further provocations, the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah may befall you. Retreat from the banks of the River Styx while you still can, or risk being swallowed by Cerberus."
If someone said that was "too hard" or "too opaque" to understand in English, that's their problem, not the writer's. Just because 90% of English speakers can't write like that, doesn't mean that it's bad writing.
Standard of living =/= GDP per capita.
GDP per capita is easily inflated by just having many billionaires. Having billionaires does little to help living standards but vastly raises GDP per capita.
Living standards in vast majority of Europe is far better than in USA. There is no starvation, no rural backwardness, longer life expectancy and so on.
China does not need to chase the oligarch led economy with many billionaires owning the vast majority of the country, rather, it can realistically surpass American living standards just by investing in giving back to the common people.
Already I would say the living standards is 70-90% of America. Despite in America a car is basically a requirement to survive while you can take public transport anywhere in China, China still had a 2x sized auto market. Chinese workers can already today look forward to a superior healthcare system and an earlier retirement age when they get old. Access to education, upwards mobility etc. All can be considered ahead of America.