Seriously? Xinhua can't hire someone to narrate the story? It has to use text-to-speech like some shitty clickbait YT channel?
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Yeah and they can be used as as pathfinders for railways, once traffic reaches a certain volume, a PPP financing can be used to pay for a railway.
Speed isn’t really a big issue, a truck doing 100 kmh on average would be faster than China-Europe trains, and speed can be increased in future.
Capacity wise, maybe they could evolve to an actual road train format, like they do in Australia.
I think fuel efficiency can be ok, they could be electric and be able to regenerate power while braking and possibly even be covered in electricity generating materials.
If they use battery swapping, with the batteries charged with low cost solar at the stations then that’s pretty good.
Hydrogen is the other major alternative, I’m sure both options (and biofuels) will soon be widey available to these new HGVs, as well as the special lanes.
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As you noted this is offtopic so I will just say one thing. The "neo-Nazi" rhetoric isn't about a fight against Nazism. It's connecting with WWII. Modern Russian history is centered around what they call "The Great Patriotic War", i.e. the fight against Nazi Germany. So Putin is trying to link the struggle in WWII with the current war. It's a smart tactic from a purely optics perspective.
There's a secondary purpose. By claiming it's a small Nazi junta that has captured Ukraine, it gives the impression to the Russian general public that nationalistic feeling is very small whereas in reality it's quite substantial, especially in Western parts of Ukraine.
I would note that whatever problems Russia has with racism, China itself (let alone India) are both pretty notorious for anti-black racism and there doesn't seem to be any serious attempt to fix it either. It's not hard to find black students or businessmen talking about how terribly they were treated in either country. Guangzhou in particular has purged a large part of its black entrepreneurial population and African students in India regularly get treated like criminals or worse. This gets little attention in Western media so both countries get off the hook.
These complaints are deceptive due to lies of omission and framing. Many of these people that you say are "purged" (eg lawfully handled by immigration officers) are over staying their visas so they are illegals. Calling them "entrepreneurs" is deceptive. A significant portion are engaged in criminal activities. Other still routinely endangered the public. For example, during the height of the pandemic, some Africans violated quarantine protocol because they thought rules don't apply to them. That doesn't sound like an oppressed group to me. In your desperation to cast the Chinese as xenophobes, you conveniently "forgot" these minor details.
On the whole, Africans are treated very well by China both domestically and internationally.
They are not routinely shot in the back by racist white police who were "defending" themselves from unarmed Black people.
They don't get bananas thrown at them at sporting events like they do in "multicultural" Europe.
It wasn't the Chinese who invented terms like racist terms like nigg*r. That credit goes to "tolerant" Caucasians.
Internationally, China has done more to help Africa in 10 years than Caucasians have done in the past 400 years.
But see, one time, one Chinese man looked at a Black man for 3 seconds. Therefore, all of China is "anti black".
On the whole, Africans are treated very well by China both domestically and internationally.
They are not routinely shot in the back by racist white police who were "defending" themselves from unarmed Black people.
They don't get bananas thrown at them at sporting events like they do in "multicultural" Europe.
It wasn't the Chinese who invented terms like racist terms like nigg*r. That credit goes to "tolerant" Caucasians.
Internationally, China has done more to help Africa in 10 years than Caucasians have done in the past 400 years.
But see, one time, one Chinese man looked at a Black man for 3 seconds. Therefore, all of China is "anti black".
China delivers first 6,000-meter-class deep-sea exploration robot
China's self-developed 6,000-meter-level autonomously remote-controlled robot, the Wenhai-1. /CAS
China's first self-developed deep-sea exploration tool, Wenhai-1, an autonomously remote-controlled robot capable of operating at a depth of 6,000 meters, has just ended a sea trial that verified several of its capabilities.
Designed and produced by the Shenyang Institute of Automation of the China Academy of Sciences (CAS), the Wenhai-1, which means "inquires to the ocean," completed 17 dives.
Experts said they verified the capabilities of its high-resolution sounding side scan, shallow dissection acoustic detection, optical detection, and seated and fixed-point fine sampling operations.
Staff members operate the Wenhai-1. /CAS
The deep-sea robot has three working modes: autonomous, remote-controlled and hybrid. And it can switch modes smoothly to better undertake tough scientific tasks.
During the sea trial, the Wenhai-1 also acquired high-precision near-seabed detection data, surface sediment columnar and seabed biological samples. It measured Earth's gravity and magnetic fields, providing technical support for marine resource exploration and multi-physical field matching navigation research.
It is to be installed on the "Haiyang Dizhi-9" (which means "marine geology") ship of the Qingdao Institute of Marine Geology, China Geological Survey, and will facilitate deep-sea scientific research such as surveys on the marine environment, biodiversity, specific targets on the seabed, and in-situ exploration of extreme deep-sea environments and mineral resources.
Why does China invest so heavily into deep sea robotic vehicles ?
To detect, locate and remove undersea sensors place by the US in Yellow Sea, E China Sea, S China Sea and maritime passages to go beyond the first island chain ?
Why do they even need to announce it?
But either way, these ultra-long-range (let's call it ULR) torpedoes could deliver results akin to a Round Two Pearl Harbor. The ULR torpedoes can be utilized for attacks on not just warships that are already sailing on the seas, but also warships that are still docked in naval bases, given its range.
Most importantly, such ULR torpedoes also provided the enormous benefit of not requiring PLAN warships to sail anywhere close to the US mainland or even Europe at all.
The 10000 kilometer-range is sufficient to hit Hawaii and the West Coast from within the First Island Chain. But that wouldn't be enough to cross the Arctic/Indian Ocean nor round the South American cape in order to strike naval bases on the East Coast and/or Europe.
For that, I think PLAN could start with conducting friendly port visits to China-friendly countries with Atlantic coastlines (i.e. Argentina, South Africa, Nigeria) on a regular basis. So that in case tensions do run high enough that war is inevitable, those PLAN warships that are located in the Atlantic with those ULR torpedoes could cone in handy.
Another method would be to accelerate the procurement of advanced nuclear-powered submarines. In particular the 095s and 096s, since they would be the only PLAN warships (other than the 093s and 094s, but they are easier to be detected, thus compromising their safety and security) capable of sailing around the world without refueling and resupplying for long periods of time. They can sail to anywhere in or near the Atlantic, and launch those ULR torpedoes against the East Coast and/or Europe.
Moreover, given that such ULR torpedoes are effective standoff weapons, I think it can also be tipped with smaller nuclear warheads to further add valuable nuclear deterrent capabilities for China.
Certainly the requirements for the ULR torpedoes to be used across the PLAN would limit the size of nuclear warheads, and that would never allow the blast yields of such ULR torpedoes to come anywhere close to the Poseidon. But having at least several or several tens of kilotons of TNT for each torpedo can be a menacing threat against not just any warships, but capable of crippling naval bases and ports for significant periods of time too.
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If you have the capability of deterrence you want the enemy to know it. It will be a factor in their escalation calculations.
Because a secret deterrence is not a deterrence.
Because a secret deterrence is not a deterrence.