Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

[Good2Golf]

Hazarding a guess - if you open a mine in Africa, and the government decides it wants it and takes it then you are insured. Like I said just a guess.

In a foreign country that would make sense, but if I understand the article correctly, this is domestic insurance within China.

 

[OldSolduer]

In a foreign country that would make sense, but if I understand the article correctly, this is domestic insurance within China.

I think you would really need it there. Or just don't open.

 

[Kirkhill]

If you can buy insurance for legs and breasts you can buy insurance for anything....if you are willing to pay the premiums.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Indonesian are showing their teeth

 

[Dana381]

Hazarding a guess - if you open a mine in Africa, and the government decides it wants it and takes it then you are insured. Like I said just a guess.

Hell that happens here. When the PEI government decided to take over the video lottery terminals they basically stole them. They gave the owners peanuts for them. Pat Mella even said the payment was a token amount.

I didn't like the VLT's but the owners didn't deserve their property stolen like that.

 

[FSTO]

China’s useful idiot doesn’t agree with the China is in trouble sentiments.

https://www.mining.com/web/rio-tinto-says-it-is-optimistic-about-chinas-growth/

 

[RangerRay]

China’s useful idiot doesn’t agree with the China is in trouble sentiments.

https://www.mining.com/web/rio-tinto-says-it-is-optimistic-about-chinas-growth/

I wouldn’t classify him as “useful idiot”. He is extremely intelligent. I would classify him as “captured elite”. He knows what he’s doing and looking out for his own interests.

 

[FSTO]

I wouldn’t classify him as “useful idiot”. He is extremely intelligent. I would classify him as “captured elite”. He knows what he’s doing and looking out for his own interests.

Most of Stalin’s useful idiots were the intellectual elites of the west.

I’d argue that Barton has no concept of loyalty to nothing but his bank account. His culpability to the opioid crisis is just one example.

 

[dimsum]

Decided to post this here instead of the Perun thread.

 

[OldSolduer]

Most of Stalin’s useful idiots were the intellectual elites of the west.

And still are "intellectual elites". Once they figure out what really happened its too late and its "off to gulag with you Comrade!!! "(Russian accent)

 

[RangerRay]

Beijing’s apologists in Parliament hard at work.

Canadian Senator met with leaders affiliated to PRC espionage arm days before filing challenge to Foreign Interference Commission

On February 3rd Senator Yuen Pau Woo met with community leaders reportedly subject to Chinese Overseas Affairs Office

www.thebureau.news

 

[Good2Golf]

Beijing’s apologists in Parliament hard at work.

Canadian Senator met with leaders affiliated to PRC espionage arm days before filing challenge to Foreign Interference Commission

On February 3rd Senator Yuen Pau Woo met with community leaders reportedly subject to Chinese Overseas Affairs Office

www.thebureau.news

Time for the pleasure of the Crown to end for Woo’s and Oh’s Senatorial service.

 

[QV]

Time for the pleasure of the Crown to end for Woo’s and Oh’s Senatorial service.

Seems like an easy decision. If that easy decision isn't shortly forthcoming, we know how far up the compromise goes.

 

[OldSolduer]

Time for the pleasure of the Crown to end for Woo’s and Oh’s Senatorial service.

And BTW you are being investigated by multiple agencies .

Don't let the doorknob hit you on your traitorous ass on the way out

 

[Good2Golf]

 

[Cloud Cover]

China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities—Background and Issues for Congress; Jan. 30, 2024​

Report to Congress on Chinese Naval Modernization - USNI News

The following is the Jan. 30, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities — Background and Issues for Congress. From the report China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, is the top focus of...

news.usni.org

“China’s navy is, by far, the largest of any country in East Asia, and sometime between 2015 and 2020 it surpassed the U.S. Navy in numbers of battle force ships, meaning the types of ships that count toward the quoted size of the U.S. Navy. DOD states that China’s navy “is the largest navy in the world with a battle force of over 370 platforms, including major surface combatants, submarines, ocean-going amphibious ships, mine warfare ships, aircraft carriers, and fleet auxiliaries. Notably, this figure does not include approximately 60 HOUBEI-class patrol combatants that carry anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM). The… overall battle force [of China’s navy] is expected to grow to 395 ships by 2025 and 435 ships by 2030.” The U.S. Navy, by comparison, included 292 battle force ships as of January 29, 2024, and the Navy’s FY2024 budget submission projects that the Navy will include 290 battle force ships by the end of FY2030. U.S. military officials and other observers are expressing concern or alarm regarding the pace of China’s naval shipbuilding effort, the capacity of China’s shipbuilding industry compared with the capacity of the U.S. shipbuilding industry, and resulting trend lines regarding the relative sizes and capabilities of China’s navy and the U.S. Navy”


Detailed report to Congress:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24400102/china-naval-modernization-implications-for-us-navy-capabilities-background-and-issues-for-congress-jan-30-2024.pdf

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[Colin Parkinson]

China just being a asshole

 

[GK .Dundas]

China just being a asshole

It

 

[GK .Dundas]

This what happens when you get someone who suffers from little man syndrome but you're 6'6," and you're a country instead of a person.

 

[daftandbarmy]

This what happens when you get someone who suffers from little man syndrome but you're 6'6," and you're a country instead of a person.

Well, China isn't a Western Democracy so we can be pretty sure that the 'Head Man' has actually been installed there by a committee that controls the puppet strings.

Hey, wait a minute