China in the news.
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politicsBecause everyone likes to talk about it in a "clash of superpowers" sort of way, always carry your salt with you when reading stories like the following...
A man convicted of selling military secrets to China is due up for a potential life sentence. His defense was that he did help design some systems for companies in China, but that the designs he used were not marked secret and were older technology.
Steel from a Chinese firm was convincingly tied to nuclear plants in Iran, which can only make people who think sanctions and blockades work tear their hair out at how much China appears to be for sanctions, and then turns around and sells to Iran anyway. Not that other countries are blameless - the United States offers plenty of waivers to do business with organizations and countries that they're technically banned from.
Perhaps the one that will raise the fear-hackles the most (for those prone to that kind of fear), the possibility that the newly unveiled stealth fighter from China uses technology reverse-engineered from a United States craft shot down in the Kosovo region.
If you're in the United States, all of these things and the general "clash of superpowers" narrative means that you're going to be bombarded with messages saying that defense spending can't be cut just in case China gets worldwide domination ambitions and goes on a conquering tear. Why they would want to, we're not sure, but it probably has something to do with the fantasy that they'll leverage debt holdings to crush the United States and then send all their young men out to conquer and destroy.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled program of anti-government demonstrations on the African continent.
A man convicted of selling military secrets to China is due up for a potential life sentence. His defense was that he did help design some systems for companies in China, but that the designs he used were not marked secret and were older technology.
Steel from a Chinese firm was convincingly tied to nuclear plants in Iran, which can only make people who think sanctions and blockades work tear their hair out at how much China appears to be for sanctions, and then turns around and sells to Iran anyway. Not that other countries are blameless - the United States offers plenty of waivers to do business with organizations and countries that they're technically banned from.
Perhaps the one that will raise the fear-hackles the most (for those prone to that kind of fear), the possibility that the newly unveiled stealth fighter from China uses technology reverse-engineered from a United States craft shot down in the Kosovo region.
If you're in the United States, all of these things and the general "clash of superpowers" narrative means that you're going to be bombarded with messages saying that defense spending can't be cut just in case China gets worldwide domination ambitions and goes on a conquering tear. Why they would want to, we're not sure, but it probably has something to do with the fantasy that they'll leverage debt holdings to crush the United States and then send all their young men out to conquer and destroy.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled program of anti-government demonstrations on the African continent.
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Date: 2011-01-28 03:02 am (UTC)http://blog.minitofu.com/2011/01/cctv-news-suspected-stolen-scenes-top-gun-fighter-jet-news/
Xinwen lianbo, or News Broadcast, on China Central Television, comes under fire again for its report of an air force training exercise on January 23. In the newscast, the way a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft and exploded looks almost identical to a cinema scene from the Hollywood film Top Gun.
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Date: 2011-01-28 05:57 am (UTC)