Dam musk has gone too far....
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At least the fly by wire logic wasnt coded by Jia Hinds at $9/hr lol...
F-35: "红豆泥斯密马赛。"
Even American planes are learning Japanese 躬匠精神。 Another win for Japanese softo powaaaa!!!
Minimal deterrence = minimal amount necessary for MAD.
You don't need orbital launched weapons to do MAD. Let alone orbital HGVs. These are types of weapons you use to discreetly and with plausible deniability EMP the entire enemy continent before they even realize what's happening.
China has a nuclear program almost or arguably even more secretive than the Israel one, the only thing that is shared is that they supposedly won't use nukes first and that during peacetime there is supposedly not an excessive amount of armed nukes, only enough to ensure MAD.
Imho China is progressing on what Mao started, trying to create a nuclear war victory capability. That doesn't mean they want nuclear war, only that they are planning to come out ahead once the nukes start flying.
SCMP again...
Not too long ago they were gleefully reporting China as a lockdown dystopia. But off course, now they are saying that dining in a city without power and running water with occasional bombs dropping out of the sky is 'incredibly romantic'. Because its Ukraine.
While these Ukrainians are enjoying their 'romantic' candlelight dinners. Remember that the people in Donbass endured 8 years of genocidal war waged against them. They have gotten used to staying in basements. They have gotten used to losing love ones. They have gone through vastly more hardship than these posh Ukrainians. But for 8 years, nobody from the Western media, and nobody from the SCMP bothered to cover their stories. Its shameful.
The attitudes of these posh Ukrainians like Boruk is disgusting. I have zero sympathies for them. Let them enjoy the hell that they've gotten into. They had it coming.
1. He introduced "capitalist joining party" in the party constitution. Regardless its necessity, it does make many grassroot people feeling uneasy, how could a communist making wealth out of comrades? Why would a grassroot communist do selfishness work while his comrade can exploit him?
2. He was overtly "artistic" and "entertaining", showing off his musical and singing talents in front of foreign VIPs, especially Americans. Being entertaining is something that a Chinese leader should never do unless the audience is regarded as family or best friend. American politician is not. He made himself appear eagerly please the enemy, therefor weak.
Historical reference: 《·廉颇蔺相如列传》, King of Qin tricked King of Zhao to play music for him, Lin Xiangru forced King of Qin to bit drum for King of Zhao in return.
3. He stayed on the post of Chairman of CMC for a year after handing over presidency to Hu Jintao. This makes Hu Jintao like a puppet. This made him like a "tai shang huang" and is bad in Chinese political norm. I know, Deng did that to Jiang as well, but that isn't an arrangement that people prefer. It is also different since Deng was one of the funders of PLA, if he didn't leave the Army in 1950s, he would have been a grand general. Jiang has no such history, giving him no reason to stay on.
Jiang's prolonged stay is also perceived by many to have weakened Hu's authority over other big power players such as Bo Xilai who dared to challenge the succession. The perception may be wrong, but it fits the negative view on "tai shang huang".
Historical reference: Qian Long emperor of Qing passed the throne to Jia Qing but kept many powers while his confident He Shen is eating the state inside out.
4. Jiang accepted interview by Mike Wallace during which Wallace referred to Jiang by the word dictator. Jiang is seen as appeasing and weak when he stayed on the interview and tried hard to defend him not being dictator. From Chinese stand point, such insult can only be met by forceful counter act. On top of that, many people are not happy that he made that interview in the first place. Mao Zedong accepted lots of foreign interviews, but never a person like Wallace who acted as a moral judge. Jiang just tried too hard to emulate Mao but doing it at wrong time, with wrong people and wrong tactic.
In contrast: he is expected to act like Deng Xiaoping treating Thatcher with more blunt and harsh words. If it was Mao or Deng, the answer would have been "I am proud of being the dictator serving the people".
I remember the TV program "Rome". When Brutus told Marc Antony "I have men of quality", Antony replied "I have the mob with me". That is the kind of proper answer to challenge from morally pretentious arrogant.
I must say that, all these things do not negate what he did right.
Pres. Jiang interview in public after his time in office. He said that he never really did anything of significance that he can be really proud of except for three things. Introduction of socialist market economy, inserting Deng Xiaoping thought, and the three principles, the fourth one was maybe him stopping the military from dabbling in business dealings. Other than that, he's embarrassed that he's time didn't amount to anything more....The man was a consumate politician, and would have excelled in western style democracy system with his penchant for energetic entertainment.
The US military is the last true pillar of American power. Its not like the American elites mind losing crazy amount of soldiers. Most of the soldiers are Americans from the lower income group. The elites couldn't care less about their lives. What the American elites cannot allow is a perception of vulnerability of the US military. If the US military suffers crazy casualties in a war, then the perception that the US military is the top dog starts to waver. This is why the Pentagon and NATO chiefs try very hard to avoid any direct US military conflict with Russia in Ukraine. Because the US military cannot hope to fight a war with Russia and expect the same favourable lopsided casualty figures of the Vietnam and Iraq Wars.
I pray what you say is true. Today more than ever, China needs real capability for MAD with the US. Minimal deterrence for China back in the old days is having a couple hundred of nukes to dissuade the US that nuking a poor, backwater 3rd world country that has nukes is just not worth it. This doctrine is much more relevant to North Korea today. China today is no longer a backwater 3rd world country. For the warmongering Americans today, nuking China appears more 'worth it'. These warmongers need to shown that, MAD is not only exclusive to Russia. But China can do it too.
Another wrong move by acting moderate (谦虚) at the wrong time. It is a virtue to be so in front of your colleagues at work, but not in front of general public. It is a virtue when your successor praise you being moderate, not by yourself. Once again too many inappropriate show acts. Chinese definition of good leader is vastly different from the west.
You don't need to pray, because it's pretty obvious that China is improving its MAD capabilities.
What's more, it's even clear that it isn't something they just started, but rather, something that they have been in the progress of doing, and in at least a couple of years by now.