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Inbe4 it's a rust bucket and it will take a lot of Vietnam to make it usable.
Enjoy this week's particularly ludicrous "blame China" news cycle:
- WSJ
The Chinese spy balloon used off-the-shelf equipment. The craft also didn’t appear to send information back to China.Corruption inquiry in Australia uncovers state lawmaker
The former premier of Australia's most populous state engaged in corrupt conduct involving another CCP-connected lawmaker with whom she was in a secret romantic relationship. Maguire received money from Chinese agents and was linked to the "Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China".Allow me to be a troll for a moment.
From China's point of view, allowing NK to have nuclear weapons is the cheapest way to maintain balance at this stage of expenditure, though not necessarily the most correct one. As we enter the 21st century, the imbalance in military, and indeed national, power between North and South is significant, and the South has more money, so they have an unparalleled advantage in conventional weapons. A simple example is that the North is still using improved T62s, while the South has tanks based on M1A2 technology; the North's best aircraft are MiG-29s, while the South has F-35s. The Russian-Ukrainian war has proven that the lack of air power is fatal for ground troops (KA-52's slaughter of armored formations), so I don't think I need to elaborate on how big the North's military disadvantage is.
So, in this case, is there a weapon that can be used with little investment and quick results? The answer is nuclear weapons, and the accompanying nuclear carriers, i.e., missiles. Nuclear missiles require only research on rockets and nuclear warheads than conventional weapons construction. Drawings of nuclear bombs, especially atomic bombs, are not believed to be difficult to find. As for the ability to combine warheads and missiles can be blurred, the key is to have a nuclear warhead is a deterrent. This is much less politically and economically costly than sending troops directly to North Korea, or handing over weapons directly, or hoarding troops in the northeast, and ensures China's strategic ambiguity on North Korea. At the same time, the development of rocket technology feeds into North Korea's rocket artillery and space exploration capabilities, and space rockets in particular will boost morale.
As for why China sanctioned North Korea at that time, there is a complex reason. On the one hand supporting UN sanctions, at least at the time, would project the image of China as a responsible great power. And the deeper reason is that the former Kim was unwilling to listen to China for a long time, feeling that the US was the key to solving the current situation in North Korea and that everything would be fine once the US lifted sanctions. China could not accept North Korea's defection to the US in any way, so it joined the "international community" that imposed sanctions on North Korea. Reality forced the former Kim to rethink and, of course, to thank the Americans for forcing North Korea back into the arms of China. Since then, China-North Korea trains have not been interrupted except during the epidemic. This would also explain why the current Kim needs to see Xi before meeting with Trump.
In my opinion, China's biggest mistake with respect to North Korea was made by Mao Zedong. Mao was an idealist at the time and believed that all ethnic groups would live together equally under communism, but unfortunately reality proved him wrong. So at that time there would be what I would call a very bloody drama, which was to reduce or even forbid the contact between the volunteer troops and the North Korean people because of the protest from the North Korean side. The reason was that at that time there was little difference in language and writing between the two sides, and the volunteers kept the tradition in China of reaching out to the grassroots to help the people, which would shake the foundations of the Korean Workers' Party.
Concluding words. "琉台不守，三韩为墟". Historically, the loss of Taiwan will be linked to the situation on the Korean Peninsula, and holding the Korean Peninsula is China's invisible red line. China will have to acquiesce to North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons to maintain the balance at a time of military imbalance between the North and South.
It is not surprising that Japan bribed the IAEA to change its report.
In the report he wrote in English, “political donations of more than 1 million euros between Mizuno (IAEA Safety Standards Working Group member) and Freeman (IAEA officer), (detection of contaminated water in storage tanks) strontium 90 exceeded the standard ( 30,000 times), all of the information contained in the exposed document is true.” (The original text and translation of the reported document are posted below)
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Just a couple fantastic news from the UK over the last week or so:
Remember Britishvolt? They were promoted by Boris to a great example of British innovation. Anyway they went bankrupt, and then sold to some Australian. Turns out, the Austrialian guy is a scammer. I mean obviously, who else would buy this company?
More mortage rate rises today, now very close to levels when Liz Truss was doing her thing:
People running out of money:
Water company supplying London and 1/4 of the UK is going bankrupt. How does a water company go bankrupt? Well it got privatized and sold to some Australian bank, which made huge profits and loaded it up with £10bn of debt. The best part: interest rate on the debt is tied to RPI, now at 11%.
Remember Britishvolt? They were promoted by Boris to a great example of British innovation. Anyway they went bankrupt, and then sold to some Australian. Turns out, the Austrialian guy is a scammer. I mean obviously, who else would buy this company?
More mortage rate rises today, now very close to levels when Liz Truss was doing her thing:
People running out of money:
Water company supplying London and 1/4 of the UK is going bankrupt. How does a water company go bankrupt? Well it got privatized and sold to some Australian bank, which made huge profits and loaded it up with £10bn of debt. The best part: interest rate on the debt is tied to RPI, now at 11%.
Whoever thinks allowing North Korea to have nuclear weapons that can nuke Beijing in 10 minutes with little warning is in China's interests needs to think again.
