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I just checked tradingeconomics and it appears Vietnam has already surpassed Philippines in both nominal and per capita GDP. I remember back when Vietnam GDP was just a fraction of the Philippines when they joined ASEAN.
Really sad for the Philippines.
The article is actually pretty insightful. Of course WSJ has no access to the inner workings of MSS but from public job offerings and public statements it's clear that MSS is relentlessly focused on civilian and defense tech intelligence and recruits mostly tech experts. On the other hand, I really found this to be shocking:
They actually say that the US gov was shocked with SMIC 7nm. I would also add CIA director Burns publicly admitting to being blindsided at China brokering the Saudi-Iran deal. This sub makes fun of the US state/commerce department being filled with low-quality pol-sci / IR / lawyers given the level of ignorance they have displayed with the chip export sanctions, but could it really be that CIA is no different and is so incompetent? I don't know, maybe the article is intended to misdirect and underestimate them.
The author is puffing up some imperial NATO delusion that nobody is really going to agree with. Your technology, trade, and financial policies will be dictated within the imperial NATO senate.
It's really just nature taking its course. Intelligent countries who play their cards right advance. Not so intelligent countries who don't don't.
I don’t remember if anyone posted their year end message on the forum. The article only contains one sentence of that message. Great news for Huawei except for the panicking politicians in Washington. It would appear they have fully emerged from the disaster.
- Retired US Navy Adm. James Stavridis says China isn't ready to fight the US in the next 10 years.
- "If we ended up in a war with China, it wouldn't be just the US and China," Stavridis said.
- Stavridis said US allies such as Japan and South Korea would come to their aid if war breaks out.
"China, in my estimation, will not be ready to take on the US in a very mature way for about 10 years," retired US Navy Adm. said in an interview on , which aired on Wednesday.
Stavridis had served as NATO chief from 2009 to 2013. Before taking the helm of NATO, he was the Commander of the US Southern Command from 2006 to 2009, overseeing military operations in Latin America.
In 2021, Stavridis co-authored a novel titled "." The book is a fictional account of a war between the US and China over the South China Sea.
Stavridis gave his assessment of China's military capabilities when host Michael Medved asked if a US-China war would break out before 2034.
"Even though China is building a massive fleet, even though they're acting very aggressively, they're not ready yet to line up all that they need to take on the US Pacific Fleet," Stavridis said.
China has the , with over 355 vessels in its fleet, according to a 2021 . In July, revealed that China's shipbuilding capacity is than the US.
But this, Stavridis argues, would be inconsequential given the strength of US military alliances.
"If we ended up in a war with China, it wouldn't be just the US and China. We have treaty allies who are sworn to come and be a part of a military campaign like that. That's Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand," Stavridis said.
"So that's a lot of firepower when you kind of put it all together," he continued.
Stavridis told Medved that such deterrence would give the US "a bit of a grace period" to strengthen its military further while easing bilateral tensions through diplomacy.
supercat
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This doesn't make much sense. How would a balloon navigate without a propulsion system? Had the components of such a device been found, the US media would have screamed through the roof.
How it started, and how it's going.
Booming trade:
Afghanistan needs electricity and lights.
National priorities:
supercat
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Really?
Last time I checked, Ukraine pretty much won every war games against Russia conducted by the US and NATO. That tells how much credibility such supreme US/NATO commanders have.