In the Ukraine war, the Western mainstream calls the Russian invasion 'unprovoked' and their relatively uneducated citizens believe so. The logic behind is the robber's argument: I come to your home to rob you, you cannot protect or retaliate against me OR I will call you the trouble...
I think the proper response might not be at or near Taiwan. It's better to respond at where the US more desperate in situations. For example, South America, Ukraine, and/or Iran. For Taiwan, I don't think Chinese planned to do anything other than some military exercises and flying close to...
LOL... Indians love to imagine their Indian forces matter. Did any Indian military bullying against other than smaller Bhutan Nepal come out positive for India? Indian military is a shame. Vietnamese forces in the 1980's could have taken over the whole India if Vietnam bordered India. Even...
The most sensible reaction would be to send some J-16's approaching the 12-mile airspace of Taiwan. Make this a regular manuerver. This is an advance after crossing the arbitrary mid-strait line in the Taiwan Strait.
J10CE is kind of an overkill among the African nations due to their lacking of capable 4th-gen fighters. I speculate if at all Sudan will get surplus J10B's that are no longer in production. China will likely sell the used J10B's lower than JF-17.
Why was it the military chief asking for money from a foreign country to relieve the country's fiscal problem? A cross of line by military on the constitution or the power of the administration? I must say I haven't seen any precedence in the world.
She won't visit Taiwan. At first she thought she'd use the visit news to divert public attention from her husband's insider trading in multiple semiconductor companies' stocks. She largely succeeded. Then she'd realized how this will play out against the American interests and of course the...
Where did you get your numbers from? BBC? NYT? or White House? LOL... Sri Lanka's loans were mostly dollar-dominated. When dollar rose in values, small countries in big debts like Sri Lanka will have problems servicing their debts. For example, Sri Lanka found its services of its debt...
LOL.. The majority of Western citizens are f****** stupid. Chinese debts in Sri Lanka is 10% only. The rest of Sri Lanka's debts were owned by nations like U.S., UK,, India and Japan through their sovereign banks, IMF, or World Bank. The problem with Sri Landka debt servicing is its loan...
India has never stopped its land grapping since its existence 70 years ago. Contrary to what most people understand, India has never been a unified empire great in land mass, population, or civilization. What the British gave India was its greatest land mass by arbitrarily drew its borders...
I don't think her visit will start WWIII but it will sure bring instability to Taiwan, opportunities for Mainland to exert sovereign control over Taiwan's airspace, and humiliations to DPP, Chai, and the US.
One note about this: It's a good time to sell or short Taiwan Semiconductor stock...
I look forward to the show brought by Nancy. I guess she first thought the visit would divert American public's attention to her husband insider tradings into the semiconductor companies. She was right -- that succeeded, because Americans are stupid. But she's an American too. So she's on...
Could that spine be just extra oil tank? One of the loudest criticisms lobbed against J10C is its range (I know, people like to compare it to twin-engine fighters) and this might be the answer. With the extra range, countries not planning to invest heavily on oil tankers can have a fighter jet...