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- shapesalad1
China end game.
- PioneerDJ3031
China Successfully Tests Hyperloop-like Train Inside A Vacuum Tube
{ Suck It, Elon Musk. }China claims to have become the first country in the world to successfully carry out tests on a Hyperloop-style, magnetically levitated train inside a vacuum tube — or "vactrain" for short — according to a report from state-run newspaper China Daily.
Researchers tested the train along a roughly 1.25-mile track in the province of Shanxi in northern China. During the test, it reached speeds of up to 80 mph inside a "low vacuum tube," according to the report.The team is only getting started. The goal is to eventually construct a full-scale, 37-mile test track and have trains reach speeds of up to 621 mph.
- https://youtu.be/5eH…instrmntl
- Manchild PWNDutopian
- "{ Suck It, Elon Musk. }"
um.. how so?Nairn - The second-most powerful country in the world beat a private biz at testing an 80mph train? Wowwwwwwnb
- what could possibly go wrong_niko
- “claims”Gnash
- Elon can dig better tunnels though.utopian
- #Communismpalimpsest
- well done pangopinkfloyd
- If the vacuum leaks you get crushed like an aluminum can!
https://thumbs.dream…instrmntl - fuck yeah I want to be shot through a pneumatic tubePonyBoy
- BoringSandder
- nb1
My friend is an architect here in NYC. Medium/Large firm. On the weekend he told me “all our clients just stopped paying recently. Invoices were sent for a while and then they just told us ‘we aren’t paying’. I asked him why and he just shrugged.
Tens of millions of dollars, so not a remarkable amount of money but also not just one client. Many clients.
What do you think is going on here?
- Ugh typo. He said “all our clients in China”nb
- Err, 'tens of millions' can make or break even the healthiest of shops. Not sure I'd be so dismissive of the kind of lost income.Continuity
- *that kind ofContinuity
- Their entire real estate market collapsed what would you expectgrafician
- Yeah it’s lots of money to their firm, but not lots of money in the economynb
- grafician0
- Both the CCP and NK seem to have boners for artillery, whilst the US seems to have one for tanks and planes.Continuity
- CCP and NK can't occupy shit, their logistics - just like Russia's - are a joke. Huge numbers, zero impact.
While the US are all about mobilitygrafician - Well, CCP (as far as I know) only want to occupy TW, which is a much smaller territory than, say, UA. So occupying it might not be so much of a challenge.Continuity
- As for NK's capbilities, I don't know enough to speculate or be an armchair strategist. And, again, seems to me they only want to have a go at SK ...Continuity
- ... though I imagine that wouldn't go well for them, all things considered. *Unless* the CCP is trying to annex TW, and the West is too busy trying to stop thatContinuity
- Then NK would probably have an easier time of it.Continuity
- Considering all this, investing so much in your military when nobody really wants to occupy you or you don't occupy others is nuts but heygrafician
- But remember Russia "modernised" its military for 2 decades and we've seen how "advanced" they are so I guess Chyna and NK won't be far behind only to save facegrafician
- re: Taiwan, that's impossible to occupy without failure. Instant failure!grafician
- Russia's got more skin in the military build-up game, however. For them, everything post-USSR has been about revanchism against Nato and its allies.Continuity
- China didn't go through that kind of humiliation and loss of territory. They even gained some, after HK was tranferred to them from the UK.Continuity
- Nonetheless: I'd actually still be more worried about the CCP's military capabilities than of Russia's. It's pretty clear that if it came down to it,Continuity
- Nato would ass-fuck Russia dry in a conventional shooting war. Versus the CCP, it's hard to say.Continuity
- NATO was created to counter Russia mostly, in Europe. I see no point in having NATO <> Chyna or NK militarilygrafician
- That's what it would come down to, though, should the CCP try to annex TW. The US has already made it clear they'd intervene, and I guess at least *some*Continuity
- ... Nato countries would probably join in. Also, Russia v CCP AFs: I'm guessing the CCP's forces are *way* more disciplined than RUS's, on top of being ...Continuity
- ... far more numerous. That really changes any calculus when we're talkiing about the chances of invasion successes.Continuity
- But, since the CCP hasn't really battled-tested their forces in RU- or even US-style overseas 'adventures', everything I'm saying is pure guess and speculation.Continuity
- Only NATO countries with a navy anyway
But there's no point on getting Taiwan if they blow up the semis fabs so...grafician
- grafician0
"China Delays Indefinitely the Release of G.D.P. and Other Economic Statistics
The unusual move comes as the country’s ruling elite have gathered in Beijing for the twice-a-decade national congress of the Communist Party."
- It's very bad or it's so bad they can't even invent something to save face...grafician
- grafician-1
"One official said some 30 pilots - many ex-fast jet but also some helicopter pilots lured by annual salaries of around £240,000 - are currently in China training pilots in the People’s Liberation Army in what a defence analyst described as a stunning breach of security."
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- This is pretty fucked. I mean, it's a great strategy on their part - a steal too, at barely £7.5M.Nairn
- How is this not treason?MondoMorphic
- ^Continuity
- Why would it be treason to take on a job after your service, training foreign pilots from a non-combatant country?Nairn
- yuekit2
The US is forcefully decoupling the entire advanced technology supply chain before China insources it.
Advanced logic, such as AI and HPC chips, are restricted. Equipment for 16nm or more minor logic chips, non-planar logic chips include FinFET and Gate All Around, NAND with 128-layers or more, and DRAM with 18nm half-pitch or less are restricted.
Specific equipment bans go further and limit many even older technologies. Many major Chinese companies and universities will no longer have access to the American supply chain, which includes practically every large company in Europe, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and India.
- C Y B E R - F I N A L L Y !utopian
- Trump made a lot of noise but Biden's new policy on semiconductors is probably the toughest US action against China so far.yuekit
- It’s one thing to announce policy, it’s another to police it.shapesalad
- As they should. Is one thing to be a production hub and quite another to steal or force "sharing" of IP they don't have rights too in Chynagrafician
- But undoing all the Western capitalists done over the past decades will take some time...grafician
- And could prompt Chyna to "hinder" Taiwan as a semiconductor hub as blackmail or orsegrafician
- UMM. A lot of the technical stats blow by me, not a nanometers guy.garbage
- But now I'm seeing an actual soft-war between the US and China over TSMC. This is going to be filthy.garbage
- and this will probably effect us with higher hardware prices?Beeswax
- Easily the best thing to come from this administration. Too bad it's 10+ years too late.MondoMorphic
- That senile scrotum has done nothing to reverse course on a single one of Trumps foreign policy objectives.Khurram
- Just like all the other economic wars they've inflicted on non-compliant nations, this one will too bite them in the ass.Khurram
- Their chip industry is already in meltdown because of this: https://www.economis…Khurram
- Speaking of IP. Maybe you should return all the knowledge that was stolen from the Chinese civilisation during the West's ascendancy to power...Khurram
- if you want to monopolise knowledge....
FUCK YOUR IP rights, knowledge is free and will be taken from you and you'll be left with nothing of your own.Khurram - I think you win the "foaming at the mouth" award. Such an angry fella.garbage
- I'm not generally a fan of these trade restrictions, I'd rather see free trade. But you have to acknowledge that China itself does the same thing.yuekit
- And Xi Jinping is currently threatening to invade and take over the world's leading producer of semiconductors.yuekit
- If you scroll up past Khurram's squealing, that's exactly what I said. TSMC has already started production operations in Japan..garbage
- ..in anticipation of Xi needing to do a grabby power move because its not a secret that members of the Standing Committee are seeing him as weak.garbage
- Oh sorry i sometimes can't tell the difference between you and grafician lol plus i'm posting in the morning before my coffee lol plus you know #outrageKhurram
- It's all gravy, even if we disagree. Have a good day bro.garbage
- instrmntl1
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfNY…
Chinese consulate staff in UK attack Hong Kong protesters
British officials calling for investigation and saying China has no right to quash free speech in UK
- palimpsest0
"Quand la Chine s'éveillera... le monde tremblera"
- PioneerDJ3035
BMW to move production of electric Minis from UK to China
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/artic…BMW is to axe all UK production of the award-winning electric Mini and switch it to China, dealing a major blow to hopes that Britain could be a global hub for zero-emission vehicle manufacture.
- Brexit means BrexitPhanLo
- Fish and chips production moving to Chyna also?grafician
- The UK can convert all of the empty factories into shared workspaces for the unemployed or convert them into football pitches.utopian
- “Grow the pie”Bluejam
- potential for a revival of warehouse raves!uan
- “Oxford plant isn’t up to the challenges of making electric cars” - basically the British want a living wage compared to the Chinese slaves.Chimp
- Bad move UK.instrmntl
- BMW are Germangrafician
- Bad move Germany.instrmntl
- people like minis for the british connotation, that was long sold off... uk is nothing but a memoryshapesalad
- i wonder if union laws had anything to do w ithotroddy
- Why would you wonder that - because it's a hot topic in the States? There's two reasons for this - Brexit, and China = Cheaper and closer to marketNairn
- Ya...blame the union you fucking idiot, it's called greed!utopian
- Chinese junk nowYakuZoku
- - sent from my iPhoneYakuZoku
- Haha, fuck me, brexit really does mean and sound like a good old Yorkshire ‘Breaks it’ in regards to investment in our country.Ianbolton
- Minis aren’t even very small. Fake name fake newsnb
- Rule Britannia, God Save the King, Take Back Control etcmrAtor
- grafician-1
"Reactions to Xi's speech opening China's Communist Party Congress"
https://www.reuters.com/world/ch…
"Mao Zedong promised to make people revolutionaries. Deng Xiaoping promised to make them rich. Xi is promising to keep them safe."
"It is obvious that security is Xi's greatest concern. His narrative is - China faces many dangers, the country is in a war-like state, figuratively, and he is the saviour. With this narrative, he can get people to unite around him.
"In the past, Chinese leaders based their legitimacy on their ability to provide economic growth. Now with the economy slowing, Xi tries to shift the basis of legitimacy from economic growth to security - that he can be the one who saves and protects China."
- grafician-1
"President Xi Jinping vows China "will never commit to abandoning the use of force" when it comes to the issue of Taiwan"
- You see how Russia fail, and that's with a flat land board right next to ukraine. You think China can maintain an attack, with supplies etc,shapesalad
- across a stretch of ocean that is a busy shipping route (esp for japan), is dangerous to cross most of the year, is prone to typhoons.shapesalad
- It ain't going to happen, if it does it's either Nuclear, or it's a 1 week thing that isn't sustainable, once USA etc come to the aid (of japan).shapesalad
- Yes, they can take some of Taiwan - The Matsu Islands, which are right next to China, closer to China then Taiwan main island.shapesalad
- But that would be instant bad PR, Sanctions russian style and economic disaster.shapesalad
- They use invasion of Taiwan as local rally cry, and an international bargaining chip.shapesalad
- Yes, local rally cry, well put
same as the Russian attempt with Ukrainegrafician - The entire speech was shorter this time and mostly vague just to save face on several issues - going from an expansion to a more "protective" positiongrafician
- PioneerDJ3030
- jesus what a shit holehans_glib
- Elevator lifestyle city.shapesalad
- How can you fit people in that drone?!grafician
- Lol. It’s an oversized drone. They should be embarrassedGnash
- Back to the Future 2yuekit