Colby having a change of heart?
Damn...I read the article and they say the exact same things about China these days. So much for "muh creativity"
I highly doubt Argentina does that on their on own initiatives. This is just a broader effort by the US to hinder China's access to deep space.You need leverage to extract concessions. Argentina under Milei doesn’t have shit to bargain with. That is why they are pulling the mafia move of trying to threaten Chinese assets (space monitoring station) instead of bringing anything of value to the table themselves.
The space monitoring station is something nice to have, but it isn’t indispensable. Worst case China can just park one of their space monitoring ships in international waters like they used to. It will cost more but not remotely enough to warrant China giving Milei anything.
If Argentina was in a position of strength, Huawei wouldn’t have become China’s top beef importer since all the Argentines had of value is beef these days.
Transfering aka stealing value like a Mafia boss works provided you have the power to do it.I don't think that's how economies work. In fact, the prevailing strategy of capitalism is control of the global financial system and the fruits of production through it. The idea being that, it doesn't matter if you do all the production, as long as I take most of the value from that production via share holding profits. I then take that value and invest in other production centers, playing them against you, until you have no choice but to obey me. Because the alternative is I take my investments and my business to them, and your factories go bankrupt because I'm not buying from you but from your competitors.
That is effectively the strategy practiced by the US; and it is what India is trying to imitate. It works very well against export-oriented economies like Japan and South Korea because so much of their economy is built on selling to others. Production capability without financial independence doesn't work; at the end of the day, you're in a tough spot because ultimately, if a country can get away with printing $100 billion with little consequence, and you accept their currency in exchange for products, you're just giving the value of your labor for free and that country is going to end up buying up your whole economy.
To use an example from life - you can spend all your life creating the most inventive products ever, but if you have no capital, you're still going to end up signing away all of it for a mere middle class salary, while the investors make billions.
I highly doubt Argentina does that on their on own initiatives. This is just a broader effort by the US to hinder China's access to deep space.
Tracking ships can only do so much. Nothing beats having a big dish anchored in bed rock, with a view of the southern hemisphere of the sky to boot. So, the monitoring station is actually not indispensable. If it doesn't get shutdown, it mght get droned at some point. China would be better off moving the infrastructure into space. May be that research into kilometer sized space-based solar power plant isn't actually about generating power after all.
Literal flesh as Argentina is reportedly paying China in beef at the moment because they simply don't have anything better to offerSurely some pound of flesh will be extracted by China for all that bs.
Kids in China learn how to take responsibility and make their own planning from an early age, this is honestly a genius system that should be majorly credited in keeping China's dominant economy/tech role. Really smart people also exist in societies with worse education, but those people essentially have to self select by learning responsibility by their own at a later age. The top 1% of euro minds are probably as creative or smart as the top 1% of Chinese minds, but it's the middle and bottom majority where China is gonna heavily win out in terms of how innovative and competitive the workers are.Their conclusions as ever seem to be based on the implicitly understood even if subconscious racism of thinking that Asians cannot be creative and innovative. It creates then flawed circular logic: "We know they must have stolen the technology from us because they cannot be creature. How do we know they cannot be creative? Because they stole the technology from us."
There was a 3 part documentary over 9 years ago of which I could only find 1 part easily still online (the part on creativity):
Essentially they had a competition between a Danish school and a Chinese school (from Harbin I think) in 3 areas: English, Mathematics, Creativity. The Danish students were asked how they thought the results would be before the tests. They thought they would easily win in English, conceded they might lose in mathematics, but were confident they would win in creativity. The result was actually they lost in all 3 areas. However the Danish students then tried to say they had more fun and that the Chinese were too focused on just results so "they" (the Danish) were still the real winners. Their school principal still asserted they somehow were better despite no objective evidence of that. I think one of the documentary makers or maybe it was one of the creativity panel judges said there was a dangerous combination of Western ignorance and arrogance. That was over a decade ago and things are not really much different now, though now we are seeing the coping as advanced material results of Chinese creativity and innovation enter the market, whereas before iterative improvements on existing technology was more easily dismissed as "not true creativity".
Ok. We are already aware of the damage US caused to the world and itself through its policy of regime change and political interference. We talk about it over and over again in this thread. And now, having seen all that, the first thing some of us have in mind in terms of Chinese foreign policy goal is to break up India?????Indians will live better lives if broken up. At least people in the north east can avoid genocide. It is justice to break up India. Although it is not responsibility of China to enforce justice around the world, I am all for it if it also align with Chinese geopolitical interest.
BRICS Members Reject Joint Declaration at Swiss Ukraine Conference
The list of countries that signed the final declaration was displayed by the organizers on the screens of the press center at where the summit was held. The document was signed by 80 countries out of 92 present, but Armenia, Bahrain, Brazil, the Holy See, India, Indonesia, Libya, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates did not sign it.
After suffering the genocide and humiliation of British imperialism, what is the modern Indian response but to dedicate themselves to the social, spiritual and national goal of being forever sepoys and slaves to the Anglo American nations?Ok. We are already aware of the damage US caused to the world and itself through its policy of regime change and political interference. We talk about it over and over again in this thread. And now, having seen all that, the first thing some of us have in mind in terms of Chinese foreign policy goal is to break up India?????
for a lot of western trumpeting about their supposed high IQ, and creativity, I’m not seeing much of it in real life. Truly, innovative financial products meant to scam people like crypto pump n dumps are truly historic, but not really what the human race needs to become a space faring civilisation.Their conclusions as ever seem to be based on the implicitly understood even if subconscious racism of thinking that Asians cannot be creative and innovative. It creates then flawed circular logic: "We know they must have stolen the technology from us because they cannot be creature. How do we know they cannot be creative? Because they stole the technology from us."
There was a 3 part documentary over 9 years ago of which I could only find 1 part easily still online (the part on creativity):
Essentially they had a competition between a Danish school and a Chinese school (from Harbin I think) in 3 areas: English, Mathematics, Creativity. The Danish students were asked how they thought the results would be before the tests. They thought they would easily win in English, conceded they might lose in mathematics, but were confident they would win in creativity. The result was actually they lost in all 3 areas. However the Danish students then tried to say they had more fun and that the Chinese were too focused on just results so "they" (the Danish) were still the real winners. Their school principal still asserted they somehow were better despite no objective evidence of that. I think one of the documentary makers or maybe it was one of the creativity panel judges said there was a dangerous combination of Western ignorance and arrogance. That was over a decade ago and things are not really much different now, though now we are seeing the coping as advanced material results of Chinese creativity and innovation enter the market, whereas before iterative improvements on existing technology was more easily dismissed as "not true creativity".
For most other countries I would say we shouldn't wish such things.Ok. We are already aware of the damage US caused to the world and itself through its policy of regime change and political interference. We talk about it over and over again in this thread. And now, having seen all that, the first thing some of us have in mind in terms of Chinese foreign policy goal is to break up India?????