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Also, if the Chinese or rather Xi is actually getting serious on cracking down on corruption? That's another reason to worry because he's likely serious about becoming a major military power.

India is trying to develop a fifth-generation aircraft, the HAL AMCA, but there is some skepticism about how far they can go in developing and fielding such an aircraft without more foreign collaboration and investment. India did announce they're doing a joint collaboration with GE on the...

Another reason Pakistan may be interested in purchasing this aircraft "in the near future"... https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/09/promise-and-peril-pakistans-economic-recovery-effort#:~:text=In%20the%20first%20half%20of,a%20suspension%20of%20loan%20disbursements. "China also played a...

Taiwanese civilians are prepping for war with China.

It probably had more to do with they were getting a mostly-built frame of a carrier for a garage-sale price. But if those pics that have been posted of Chinese carriers with huge cracks on their tops are legit, I would say yes.

If you're curious to watch some videos on carrier development during the 1930s and their use in WW2, a good source is Drachinifel on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/@Drachinifel

Haven't heard anything else yet on the Chinese landing ship that decided to have a duck BBQ, don't know if we even will for a while, they tend to be tight lipped about such things. As for the carrier in question that was sold off, it was the Soviet Kuznetsov-class Carrier/Missile Cruiser Riga...

Distressingly familiar, it is. Japan was teaching something like this not long before WW2. History continues to rhyme.

I concur. Unfortunately, it's often the trend for authoritarian regimes to lash out when they may be staring down their own internal collapse. It would be in Xi's interests not to make rash decisions....however China has now basically reverted back to the good old days (cough) of Mao, with Xi...

You have to mind the impact of Covid on children and infants, too. Especially in China and Russia.