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Helius

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“India is unlikely to catch up to China in the coming decades because of its weak industrial infrastructure, while China has built complex and systematic defence industrial platforms,” said Senior Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo of the PLA Academy of Military Sciences.

“When you look at the Indian military’s weapon systems, what types of tanks, aircraft and warships were made and developed by Indians themselves?”

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For years, the German government has been underscoring its commitment to the Indo-Pacific, including by military means. In 2021, she sent the
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to the Indo-Pacific for several months – a visible sign that Germany is on the side of its international value partners for freedom of sea routes and compliance with international law in the region. The ship's crew also used the mission to practice with international partners, such as the naval forces of Australia, Singapore, Japan and the United States.

This was followed in 2022 by the largest deployment in the history of the Air Force: around 250 soldiers, six Eurofighters, four A400M transport aircraft and three A330 aircraft were deployed at Rapid Pacific in the Indo-Pacific region. The Eurofighters reached Singapore within 20.5 hours and, after landing, took part in the multinational exercises
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in Australia. Part of the contingent then visited Japan and South Korea.

For this year, the participation of German paratroopers and forces of the sea battalion in the Australian exercise Talisman Sabre 23 is planned. "We are present and will continue to be so in the future," Pistorius said – multilateral, inclusive, in partnership, embedded in Europe and "above all, not directed against anyone".

In 2024, the German Navy will once again fly the flag in the Indo-Pacific: Under Japanese leadership, a frigate and a task force supply ship will be involved in monitoring compliance with the United Nationssanctions against North Korea and participate in the U.S.-led large-scale multinational maritime exercise, the Rim of the Pacific. The Air Force plans to participate in the Pitch Black exercise in Australia again in 2024.

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This is still ceremonial. Countries in Asia that matter will want much concrete actions from Germany. Germany benefited from previous globalization.
 

Bellum_Romanum

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This is still ceremonial. Countries in Asia that matter will want much concrete actions from Germany. Germany benefited from previous globalization.
Concrete actions for what? And against whom? I can never understand why EUROPE is hell bent on anchoring itself in trying to maintain their hegemony in Asia especially with relations to China. History is not lost on many Chinese people and as much as they value, cherish, and uphold the fruitful and productive relationship between contemporary Germany and China lest they forget the role it played when China was at its weakest.
 

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Excerpts of the speech by minister of defense Li Shangfu at the 2023 Shangri-La Dialogue


In the following Q&A, Li Shangfu says US Taiwan strait transits are not "innocent passage" under UNCLOS (which the US is not a party of).

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The West smears China's assertiveness as aggression as usual.

Grossman dreams up a new QUAD.

Lessons for China - how the US conducts industrial espionage against its own "allies" and bullies its vassals economically:
The main lesson is, if the US treats its own lackeys so badly, China should have no illusions whatsoever.

Remember some imbecile said a few days ago that China needed to import most of its medications? Here is the reality:
 
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