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gelgoog said:
Huawei is basically complying with US sanctions on Russia. After all these years they still have not achieved technological independence. As for ZTE they even have US spooks on their administration board courtesy of Trump.

Russia basically cancelled their 5G rollout and are going to develop their own 4G equipment. Since most of their existing 3G equipment is Ericsson, Nokia, or Huawei, it is going to cost them quite a lot to upgrade the entire network to 4G.
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I think it will be 5G at some point. They hired 600 people at Istok and 2000 more they are hiring in next couple of years. and this is just one firm that working on components.
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The research and production enterprise, which produces microwave electronics for all types of communications, radar and navigation, plans to expand existing and launch new production facilities in the science city of Fryazino, creating another 2,000 jobs, the press service of the governor and the government of the region reports
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This Saudi-Iranian agreement is of tremendous importance. I have a lot of thoughts about it but in order to keep the post short I will only mention a few of them. Funnily enough I won't focus on China's benefits, only for SA and Iran:

A short background: SA and Iran have been in secret talks for over a year already, but talks seemed to have stalled at some point. IMO Saudi Arabia wanted something out of Iran (Yemen issue?..), but Iran didn't want to give in, and even if it did, SA wouldn't trust Iran as it has a long history of breaking agreements. What's new here is the third party that got involved, China.

From SA's side
  • MBS has a long term plan for SA to become an economic power. When he got wind of the news that Israel and US were planning an attack against Iran, he noped the fuck out because he knew that these two would attack Iran from safe homelands while SA would get slaughtered by Iran which is next door
  • SA has been historically at the mercy of Western countries blackmailing it with letting Iran "loose" if they didn't follow Western orders. MBS just turned over the table, dealt directly with Iran and is now giving a giant middle finger to Western blackmailing.
  • SA doesn't trust Iran, so it asked China to take active part in the deal so that it pressures Iran to hold its end of the deal
From Iran:
  • First of all, the recent news from Israel and US probably sounded as death bells for Iran. They probably knew that its do or die time (not saying that they are out of the woods yet, but there is a possibility they may have foiled US/Israel plans against it).
  • China sent a very clear and, unusually, loud message to Iran during the Gulf-China summit. In China's vision for a future Middle East, Iran current actions aren't aligned with it. Either Iran had to change policies or it would have to watch China increasing relations with the Arabs.
  • Iran's international strategic environment has been deteriorating. Iran either had to adjust its policies or it would have been surrounded by the US, Israel and the Gulf States.
China's gains and importance are worth entire posts by its own, but I will just say this. China wasnt just a simple mediator. I would bet real money that behind the scenes, both SA and Iran requested China to take an active part so that they could trust that the other party wouldn't break their promise. The extend of China's involvement will remain secret, but there is no doubt in my mind that, if not the most important, it has at least played a huge role here
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This agreement fits very well into a recent pattern of Saudi foreign policy. They've accepted that they backed the losing side in Syria, that the war on Yemen was a mistake and that China is a more important partner than the US. Giving money to Egypt to buy influence isn't sustainable either. Making peace with Iran only makes sense. If they're not going to be backing opposing sides geopolitically or on the battlefields of Syria and Yemen, what's the point of emnity with Iran?

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Both countries have as one of their top priorities to get capital or technology and market access from China. The recent agreements that were signed when Xi visited Saudi Arabia and the Iranian president visited China were probably conditional on making peace in the region. Investing in a country at war is never safe. Sometimes things might get damaged
 
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Huge congratulations to Wang Yi and China! We had gotten hints of new Saudi-Iran talks but did not imagine something this big. China went straight for the big fish. If the West had attempted this it would have gotten leaked a hundred times. Wang Yi has broken the myth of Chinese diplomatic isolationism. Stunning first debut as an international mediator.
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manqiangrexue said:
For that old airplane? Nah... you get some food, a regular job, and a modest apartment. Marry a state-TV level supermodel? Maybe if you fly a B-21 prototype over here and that's if you did it with the right intent, not just some dude who wasn't happy with his life so decided to give the biggest FU he can muster to his former team. The recent defector, I don't know about him. If he did it because he didn't like how things were going on his side, then he's a nobody. If he did it because he was always undercover and finally completed his mission or if he realized that his duty and allegiance should be placed towards his fellow Chinese countrymen, then he deserves a reward. Reward heroism, not opportunism. The Chinese scientists who worked from their day of graduation to the day they take their last breath pushing forward the nation's rise in critical tech including military tech deserve the best wives. The Chinese soldiers who stake out in the coldest mountains, who fly against the deadliest Western threats deserve the best wives.
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Points noted.

Two things though, this goes to show at the end of the day despite all the woke pc bs, what truly motivates men (other than of course his country, and his own self survival) is women, namely high value women whom also just so happen to be subjectively attractive to him personally as well as a good measure of being objectively attractive to society as a whole in terms of universally agreed feminine beauty aesthetics...

Secondly, this plane thing is all academic anyway... I heard rumors there is an explosive underseat of F-16 pilots that can be remotely triggered if in case of defections... Not to mention the F-35 needs new activation codes via starlink every day or its becomes a brick... its not surprising given decades ago even Intel as part of "anti-theft" put a module in their CPU where if it got a out of band kill signal via any 3G tower the CPU wont even execute commands, and nowadays Windows 11 needs to phone home to Microsoft just to finish installation, not to mention even the likes of DJI requires all drones to do online activation before engines will even turn on... etc etc

There aint no way a modern jet can be "defected" etc, heck all Boeing airlines have Boeing Uninterruptible Autopilot which means in hijacking instances it can be remotely overridden by the ground...
 
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EU tells Taiwan to forget about a bilateral investment pact..

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