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doggydogdo

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US has freeways, automobile culture and aviation connecting every major city. There is no way USSR with lack of personal transportation, poor road network could compete in work hours unless workers are residing inside the factory.
They have public transport, higher density and better city planning. which means they do live near to where they work lol. Automobile culture is not good for working hour since traffic alone wastes a long time.
 

Temstar

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Seems to be true:
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I agree with the analysis, scanning the shape of the SPG isn't that useful from intelligence perspective, but is very useful if you're making model kits. So chances of him being sent from a model maker is high.

Word according to 洞洞 is that guy has been caught and is having tea. Local media is even taking his footage and using it as an example to warn people.
 

Temstar

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Firstly he was like this:
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“I want to turn the Taiwan Strait into an unmanned hellscape using a number of classified capabilities,” Paparo said, “so that I can make their lives utterly miserable for a month, which buys me the time for the rest of everything.”

Then Zhuhai 2024 happened. And now:
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Speaking at the Brookings Institution, Adm. Sam Paparo said smaller unmanned platforms won’t get the job done in the vast oceans of the Indo-Pacific. Should the U.S. military deploy drones in a smaller area like the Taiwan Strait to thwart a Chinese invasion of the self-governing island, U.S. forces would still need to sustain those platforms from Okinawa, Paparo said. The distance between the Taiwan Strait and Okinawa is about 436 nautical miles, a stretch of water that would require surface assets to control the sea lines of communication.
 
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vincent

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Firstly he was like this:
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Then Zhuhai 2024 happened. And now:
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It was a retarded idea to begin with. US can’t afford large drones that can based on the Second Island Chain. Bases on the First Island Chain that hosts small drones will get wiped out in a few days by the PLA.
 

TPenglake

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Chinese society is essentially sick right now if 5% growth can cause this level of discontent when other countries can easily handle negative growth.
Lol, I'd like to know which countries have negative growth right now and are all hunky dory?

Barring the hyperbole though, knife and car attacks are perhaps nothing new in China sadly, yet it is very concerning to see three in such short succession and producing as many casualties when before these attacks usually just result in wounded with minimal dead.

Its a given that the economy is having a bit of a hard time, but I do think some self-criticism is warranted in this case mostly with how broadly East Asian culture would make people lash out more severely when times are hard. Yes, compared to Western nations citizens of China, Japan, and Korea are more disciplined and thus follow rules more, have lower levels of street crime, and are more orderly.

But the flipside is East Asian countries are essentially pressure cooker cultures, where hypercompetition is promoted, emphasis is put on face, extreme judgmentalalism and classism is rife, mental health is stigmatized, tolerance for failure is practically nonexistent, and where most working class jobs are low paying and considered dirty work reserved for migrants. People are disciplined, but are also conditioned to bottle up whatever emotional problems they might have. In Korea and Japan, many people collapse under the pressure and off themselves, and in China nowadays it seems people who let their emotions get the better of them just let it explode into violence.

Its not like the government is unaware of this, but as the saying goes old habits die hard. (Which is why its so ridiculous to claim the CR destroyed Chinese culture.) When they banned private tutoring and beseached parents to let their kids have more free time, Chinese parents simply went underground to seek private tutors for their kids. When they banned 996, companies simply skirted the ban by cutting base salaries and incentivizing people to work overtime, as well as dangling the lay off list over the heads of every employee if they thought twice about work life balance.

The government can protect the public from future attacks by hiring more police and if necessary increasing surveillance, but on top of the economy getting back on track again some changes will needed to be made by the Chinese people themselves to decrease the pressure everyone is under.
 
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