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The United States and China Still Need to Talk About Nuclear Weapons​

Since university researchers made it public two years ago that China is developing extensive missile silo fields and Beijing shocked U.S. intelligence services by testing a hypersonic fractional orbital bombardment system just weeks later, there has been a growing conversation on how Washington can adequately deter Beijing.
However, there is another side that cannot be ignored: The United States and China must return to talks at the earliest available opportunity to discuss their shared responsibility to reduce the risk of nuclear war through crisis management and arms control.
In order to improve chances for crisis and arms-racing stability, China’s unwillingness to discuss obligations that could provide guardrails around nuclear weapons use needs to change.
 

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外交部副部长谢锋就美方武力袭击中国无人飞艇向美国驻华使馆负责人提出严正交涉​


China's third formal complaint to US in 24hrs, after yesterday's warnings from the foreign ministry and defense ministry, this time by Vice FM Xie Feng. I think this is a very strong hint that US should stop bringing up anything to do with Balloons. The US will not like what they find, especially from the Pentagon.

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China expresses dissatisfaction and protest over US shooting down civilian airship; US sets bad precedent



Maybe this weather balloon isn't just a regular weather balloon after all.
It becomes a political balloon.
 

9dashline

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Everybody with a working braincell knows you shouldn't install any non-work related app onto their computer since the early 2000s...
Yeah but facebook, snapchat, whatsapp never got banned




This is what telegram CEO says about whatsapp:

Hackers could have full access (!) to everything on the phones of WhatsApp users.

This was possible through a security issue disclosed by WhatsApp itself last week. All a hacker had to do to control your phone was send you a malicious video or start a video call with you on WhatsApp.

You are probably thinking "Yeah, but if I updated WhatsApp to the latest version, I am safe, right"?

Not really.

A WhatsApp security issue exactly like this one was discovered in 2018, then another in 2019 and yet another one in 2020 (tap each year's link to see the corresponding vulnerability). And yes, in 2017 before that. Prior to 2016, WhatsApp didn't have encryption at all.

Every year, we learn about some issue in WhatsApp that puts everything on their users' devices at risk. Which means it's almost certain that a new security flaw already exists there. Such issues are hardly incidental – they are planted backdoors. If one backdoor is discovered and has to be removed, another one is added (read the post "Why WhatsApp will never be secure" to understand why).

It doesn't matter if you are the richest person on earth – if you have WhatsApp installed on your phone, all your data from every app on your device is accessible, as Jeff Bezos found out in 2020. That's why I deleted WhatsApp from my devices years ago. Having it installed creates a door to get into your phone.

I'm not pushing people to switch to Telegram here. With 700M+ active users and 2M+ daily signups, Telegram doesn't need additional promotion. You can use any messaging app you like, but do stay away from WhatsApp – it has now been a surveillance tool for 13 years.
 

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外交部副部长谢锋就美方武力袭击中国无人飞艇向美国驻华使馆负责人提出严正交涉​


China's third formal complaint to US in 24hrs, after yesterday's warnings from the foreign ministry and defense ministry, this time by Vice FM Xie Feng. I think this is a very strong hint that US should stop bringing up anything to do with Balloons. The US will not like what they find, especially from the Pentagon.

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China expresses dissatisfaction and protest over US shooting down civilian airship; US sets bad precedent

Maybe this weather balloon isn't just a regular weather balloon after all.
It makes no sense for the balloon to have a military purpose.

The only advantage a balloon has over a drone is endurance. Whatever data that balloon was gathering could have been done by a much smaller drone which would be virtually undetectable.

Balloons can stay in the atmosphere for weeks or months gathering data, drones can't.
 
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