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supercat said:

There are 5.35 million km (3.3 million miles) paved roads in China for the TELs to traverse. With China's industrial prowess, they can build thousands if not tens of thousands of decoy TELs. They can also build thousands if not tens of thousands of concealed shelters to hide the TELs. These will likely overwhelm any satellite recon system.

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FairAndUnbiased said:

You have no idea what you are talking about but also lack the technical knowledge and self awareness to understand that.

Elon Musk could get away with stupid napkin math because he's rich enough that nobody calls him out. You aren't Elon Musk.

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_killuminati_ said:

It was already a hostile border since 1947, long before NATO stepped in. Hostile but manageable. NATO invasion just aggravated the problem temporarily. Prior to that, the Soviet invasion had aggravated the hostility, but by 1990s the situation was improving.

NATO presence was a gift to India as the latter setup a covert presence in Afghanistan to conduct attacks in Pakistan via the porous Western border. At it's peak, there were suicide bombs going off in major Pakistani cities every month. When NATO decided to leave, India begged them to stay.

I suggest you enlighten yourself with actual Taliban-India relations for the past 40 years, how India has always been on the opposing side, against Taliban (and it's precursors) from NATO to Northern Alliance to Karzai and Ghani to USSR. And not forget for a moment that Taliban is a Pakistani-Afghan extension of ISI.

Western media is incapable of discerning between Taliban and most other non-Taliban groups operating in the region, such as the small anti-Taliban factions and the now nearly defunct pro-Indian.

NATO withdrew because of their massive intelligence failures in the region (the above paragraph being an example), incompetence of puppet governments, and widespread local support for Taliban. For example, nobody in the West knew that the leader of Taliban (Mullah Omar) had died of old age until several years later - this occurred while NATO was present in the country. And the fact that they did not have even a single video/photo of Omar except for a very questionable generic image. ABC News ran a short documentary highlighting that wherever NATO troops go, the civilian population tips off the Taliban, providing vital intelligence. This was a disastrous war for NATO and it's cheerleader India.

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curiouscat said:

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First Brexit and now a draft??? The UK Conservatives have really lost their minds this time.

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azn_cyniq said:

Vietnam is part of the Sinosphere, so I don't feel comfortable bashing them. They are hard-working and education-minded, so their cars will most likely become competitive in the future.

That said, I wouldn't buy a Vietnamese car. Companies like VinFast need to rely on their domestic market until the quality of their cars reaches that of the global leaders.

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tygyg1111 said:

In summary: CN > JP (Hokkaido) > SK > CN (HK) > CN (TW) > JP (rest of)

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tygyg1111 said:

Somehow, despite being genetically identical, there is a surprisingly high number of Taiwanese girls that just don't look as good as their mainland (or even HK) counterparts. Also, I've noticed the more conservative girls in both TW and HK just look better.

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Two B.C. companies ordered to 'cease all operations' over national security concerns​

Ottawa has ordered the dissolution of Bluevec Technologies Inc. and Pegauni Technology Inc. following a national security review, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said on Friday.

He did not say what kind of national security threat the two companies pose, but suggested the Burnaby-based firms received foreign investment.

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B.C. corporate registry records show both companies share Junfeng (Jack) Jia as CEO and sole director and the same mailing address in Surrey. The companies have offices in industrial parks in Burnaby about 500 metres apart.

Bluevec Technologies is an anti-drone company founded in March 2018. It sells wireless drone defence technology that allows users to “secure the sky” against unwanted drones by detecting a drone’s wireless signals, then blocking or disabling the device.

The technology can be used in a range of applications, including protecting a person’s privacy, safeguarding air traffic lanes, and preventing drones from dropping contraband into prisons.

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Bluevec was the subject of a civil suit by competitor Vancouver-based SkyCope Technologies, which alleged Bluevec stole trade secrets through former SkyCope employees and gained a competitive advantage.

Last year, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Nitya Iyer ordered Jia, Bluevec and another Bluevec employee to pay $800,000 to SkyCope for misusing its confidential information and selling a direction-finding code to Chinese anti-drone company Beijing Lizheng Technology.

In court, Jia testified Lizheng was Bluevec’s biggest customer, but SkyCope alleged Jia was the owner of the Beijing company. Court records cited a decision on a separate case by a Beijing arbitration commission that found Jia was a shareholder in Lizheng and held shares in the company held in trust by other individuals.

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