SpaceX and fanboys will still call this a huge success as usual because "We collected data". But when something happens to a Chinese rocket, western media and public starts acting like it's the end of the world.
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SpaceX and fanboys will still call this a huge success as usual because "We collected data". But when something happens to a Chinese rocket, western media and public starts acting like it's the end of the world.
Rumor of Samsung hiring former Huawei GPU leader.
Why is Huawei and the Chinese government allowing this to happen?
manqiangrexue
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Because we don't kill people for hopping companies? We respect scientists' decisions on where they work? We poach talent; others can too. We will compete and win. We don't have freakout laws like ROC (illegal to recruit for tech jobs in Mainland) and America (illegal for American citizens to work in semiconductors in China) due to being unable to compete with China.
There's no shortage of talent. Banning people from moving to other companies really doesn't achieve anything. US banned American citizens and residents from working in China Semi industry and thought it was "complete annihilation" but Chinese semi continues to thrive.
You only need to watch the first 43 seconds to see how the US military leadership really views this Iran war. It's really ALL about China. Clip of General Michael Flynn giving his thoughts on Bannon's podcast, being discussed on an anti-imperialist YouTube channel.
It has been part of the neocon plan since the early 2000s at least. They can't allow any independent powers to exist as it would be a threat to their hegemony. Iran is also the last piece of the puzzle to control Middle Eastern oil and deny it to China in case of conflict.
North Korea was also supposed to be invaded before taking on China.
North Korea was also supposed to be invaded before taking on China.
But then it'll be China playing the away team and the US with all its bases in the region playing the home team, the opposite of the scenario around TW.
The Tang, Qing, and the Mongols all managed to get large armies to that region, and the US managed to sustain a land army in Afghanistan from half the globe away. If any country can manage the infrastructure and logistics to do so, I'd think China could.
Fighting directly would be the last resort anyways. If the rumors of Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon are real, China can simply threaten to completely shut down all US civilian infrastructure (electrical, internet, communications, etc.) via cyber and completely halt all rare earth metal & magnet exports in response to US threats (use of force or naval blockade of critical sea lines of communication). Throttling oil imports from the middle east to China also isn't as huge of a deal now that there are alternative oil pipelines from Russia. Hence one additional reason (on top of the rest of the obvious ones) why the US wants to split Russia away from China. Given some of the Stans are now part of those alternative supply lines for gas/oil, I am sure they're on the eventual regime change list as well.
As for what China can or can't manage, the real question is whether it's wise to deploy overseas. My vote is clearly on no. One piece of China's appeal to the global south is the lack of military adventurism. Military adventurism has historical been a stepping stone towards imperial or societal collapse regardless, so I see it as nothing but negative for China..
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