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Looks like an X-47 to me. On a side note, somebody just got fired. https://www.rumblerum.com/northrop-grumman-x-47b-uav/
Look at the video it’s definitely not an X-47 it also has a cockpit bulge (the model is upside down for RCS testing).
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> Taiwan, China sea matters are localised to the close neighborhood of China. Or the close neighborhood of the Philippines, a major US ally with a mutual defense pact. Or Taiwan, a major US ally and trading partner. Or Vietnam, a growing trading partner. There are ongoing disputes between and among those groups. A huge amount of shipping goes through the South China Sea, including most oil for S. Korea, Japan and the…
> Meanwhile, China has been aggressively expanding its influence worldwide, in South America, Africa and Afghanistan. In contrast to the U.S.? When other countries did this in the past and present, it was ok, but not for China? The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast? I'm not thrilled with China's behavior,…
Invading countries with a diplomatic alliance like NATO behind you is as close to "okay" as you can get. A small country got beat up, but there was no risk of WWIII. And there was an attempt to install a democracy in place of a dictatorship and get out.
China claiming the territory owned by their neighbors is about slowly stealing land (and sea) and making them part of China. It's completely different.
But really, the US's moral high ground is a distraction. This thread is about whether China is taking actions that could be a threat to the United States.
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Is it purely a coincidence that it's right around the time the US is losing hegemony in that part of the world to China? How would the US react if China sent ships to secure the waters between the US and Mexico.
https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2021/09/14/china-most-adva...
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> Meanwhile, China has been aggressively expanding its influence worldwide, in South America, Africa and Afghanistan. In contrast to the U.S.? When other countries did this in the past and present, it was ok, but not for China? The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast? I'm not thrilled with China's behavior,…
> The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast? Invading countries with a diplomatic alliance like NATO behind you is as close to "okay" as you can get. A small country got beat up, but there was no risk of WWIII. And there was an attempt to install a democracy in place of a dictatorship and get out. China claim…
Tell that to Puerto Rico or Guam.
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> Meanwhile, China has been aggressively expanding its influence worldwide, in South America, Africa and Afghanistan. In contrast to the U.S.? When other countries did this in the past and present, it was ok, but not for China? The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast? I'm not thrilled with China's behavior,…
> The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast? Invading countries with a diplomatic alliance like NATO behind you is as close to "okay" as you can get. A small country got beat up, but there was no risk of WWIII. And there was an attempt to install a democracy in place of a dictatorship and get out. China claim…
This thread is about the U.S. producing a war plane. Somehow China is threatening the U.S. just by knowing about a weapon produced by the U.S.? China is the threat?
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I wonder why the bad things the US does internationally never get blamed on capitalism, yet when people write or vent about China it's always about these darn Communists. Are these after-effects of the red scare? China is an authoritarian dictatorship with their own flavour of communism I guess. Blaming everything they do on commmunism as a whole is very uninformed.
Have there ever been peaceful communists who ran a country? Add that to the tankies I've met personally and their beliefs, and yeah, communism sucks.
Don't get me wrong, I can't really stand uber-authoritarian Communism. But I don't see how communist/marxist theory is bad as a whole. Would certainly help erase a lot of issues we have on our earth. Unfortunately, people at the top always start to misuse their power to stay there. But that's also the case in capitalist America, so then again, why is communism such a problem for many americans?
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> The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast? Invading countries with a diplomatic alliance like NATO behind you is as close to "okay" as you can get. A small country got beat up, but there was no risk of WWIII. And there was an attempt to install a democracy in place of a dictatorship and get out. China claim…
> China claiming the territory owned by their neighbors is about slowly stealing land (and sea) and making them part of China. It's completely different. Tell that to Puerto Rico or Guam.
Or did you miss:
>> But really, the US's moral high ground is a distraction. This thread is about whether China is taking actions that could be a threat to the United States.
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> The U.S. can invade and occupy countries on the other side of the world, but it's aggressive for China to occupy an unoccupied island off its own coast? Invading countries with a diplomatic alliance like NATO behind you is as close to "okay" as you can get. A small country got beat up, but there was no risk of WWIII. And there was an attempt to install a democracy in place of a dictatorship and get out. China claim…
> This thread is about whether China is taking actions that could be a threat to the United States. This thread is about the U.S. producing a war plane. Somehow China is threatening the U.S. just by knowing about a weapon produced by the U.S.? China is the threat?
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Every large US social media site has employees who are Chinese intelligence assets.
Make sense. Probably Tik-Tok (etc) has employees who are US intelligence assets too, safe to assume seems like. Now I wonder if every large US social media company also has employees who are intelligence assets of US agencies. I'm not going to say 'safe to assume', theoretically America likes to think of itself as having that kind of domestic secret policing, but I wonder.
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Have there ever been peaceful communists who ran a country? Add that to the tankies I've met personally and their beliefs, and yeah, communism sucks.
Have there ever been peaceful capitalists who ran a country? Don't get me wrong, I can't really stand uber-authoritarian Communism. But I don't see how communist/marxist theory is bad as a whole. Would certainly help erase a lot of issues we have on our earth. Unfortunately, people at the top always start to misuse their power to stay there. But that's also the case in capitalist America, so then again, why is commun…
Upside: this gave us rock and roll. Downside: -20 pandemic resistance.
