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They're already a T2 nation. T1 is China and US, which are both far ahead of everyone else.
Bruh that's the 3rd failed rocket launch in a row the past few years, I'm starting to actually lowkey feel bad for them LMAO. Just launch ONE rocket successfully at least, JUST ONE. Maybe they should just focus on making anime about launching rockets and carrying out successful space missions since that's the closest they're gonna get to the real thing at this point. Even India's space program is having actual success. You know what, maybe they should just stick to making cartoons, reminiscing about the short 80 or so years in the past where they were relevant, making bite-sized raw fish dishes, and other cute little things. Let the real countries do the big boy stuff.
Japan's rocket engine test fails with explosion
A Japanese rocket engine exploded during a test on July 14, an official said, in the latest blow to the country's space agency.
The future of India is always bright. This is because good things in India only happen in the future.
The "gardener" doesn't look so good in the jungle.
"Say Taiwan one more time, I dare you"
how tf can i get a job similar to these people? write endless vacuous, unfalsifiable, unverifiable word vomit all day long and get paid for it.
I've been hearing words about this for a few days now:
It's a bit hard to find out exactly what happened because DPP government is keeping a very tight lid on this incident. But rumours on Chinese side says ROC research ship New Ocean Researcher 1, under escort by ROC Coast Guard Administration vessels CG 127 Xinbei and CG5002 Hsinchu had a stand off with Japanese Coast Guard while in the waters around Diaoyu Islands, New Ocean Researcher 1 was able to complete her mission.
Then:
Japanese fishing boat 瑞宝丸 entered coastal waters of 赤尾屿/Taishou-tou, was driven away by a pair of Chinese Coast Guard vessels.
Japan has lodged protest to both PRC and ROC over the incidents, which I find rather amusing and perhaps a rare example of 国共合作, even if by pure coincidence.
It's a bit hard to find out exactly what happened because DPP government is keeping a very tight lid on this incident. But rumours on Chinese side says ROC research ship New Ocean Researcher 1, under escort by ROC Coast Guard Administration vessels CG 127 Xinbei and CG5002 Hsinchu had a stand off with Japanese Coast Guard while in the waters around Diaoyu Islands, New Ocean Researcher 1 was able to complete her mission.
Then:
Japanese fishing boat 瑞宝丸 entered coastal waters of 赤尾屿/Taishou-tou, was driven away by a pair of Chinese Coast Guard vessels.
Japan has lodged protest to both PRC and ROC over the incidents, which I find rather amusing and perhaps a rare example of 国共合作, even if by pure coincidence.
China wants a world where interests can be respected and not necessarily zero sum. It's not about doing the opposite of what the US wants per se but if you want to go toe to toe and play the game the US wants you to play then you've lost already. Like I've mentioned earlier, many of you weren't alive or were too young to witness the last Cold War. The Soviets wanted to play the same game with the US, went toe to toe with it and lost...spectacularly. The leadership of the CPC watched this and drew lessons, one of which is that if you sucker yourself into reacting when your enemy is poking you to do just that then they have an advantage over you. Look at the mess Russia is in right now.
The west makes up a very powerful bloc but if you think they are all united at the moment then you need to look again. I wouldn't go as far as saying there are fractures but if you look hard enough you'll realize the only countries who really want to toe the US hard line towards China are the anglos and maybe the Eastern Europeans, the Germans and the French aren't too kin, in fact much of the world isn't. If the US were to start a war I don't believe it will have the backing it thinks it will. China has a military that's growing stronger by the day so I don't understand your statement about its lack of security.
Yes, you can defeat a country economically, lol! How was the USSR defeated? As far as I'm aware there wasn't a single shot fired directly between the Cold War belligerents so how did the seemingly mighty Soviet empire shrivel up and wither away so embarrassingly? It allocated much of it's resources playing the game you want China to play now; trying to keep up and go toe to toe with the west. You sound like one of those those militant diehards from the Cold War era that refused to see the obvious. The Chinese in "Africa" are mostly fine, it can be a volatile region and these things happen. It even happens to Americans.
Let me say it again: there's no Cold War. Not even close. The US wants one because that's the sort of environment they want to create, that's their comfort zone; an us vs. them situation so they can rally their people and the world against a common enemy. This is why they are trying so hard to create false narratives like democracy vs. authoritarianism or capitalism vs. communism. Imagine a so called Cold War were US officials have to come to China to beg for money and are calling seeking re-engagement, Cold War my foot! Thankfully, much of the world isn't falling for it and just wants to get on with it. If, however, China decides to form defense alliances with the likes of Russia, North Korea, Cambodia, Iran, etc then it will lend credence to the claim that China wants to spread its system and go directly against the west, the west will then rally even more than they are now, ASEAN will get nervous and start to align more with the west. In short, it will set China back.
If you want to win against the US, China needs to embed itself into the world's economic system (like it already has) to make sure any confrontation will be costly. It also needs to start working on decentralizing the world's financial system, the sooner the world ditches the USD the better, the US will find it harder and harder to fund its military expeditions. It will eventually reach tipping point where it becomes unsustainable.
Y'know, the level of escapism and wish-fulfillment has been quite stark once you start looking at how isekai (protagonists dying in unceremonious ways like getting hit by a truck, collapsing from overwork, or just drop dead from heart attack before an accident even happens, then get reincarnated to fantasy worlds filled with typical role-playing game tropes like magic and dragons and goblins, where the once pathetic main character who used to no-life his way through an unappreciative society back in Japan is now an over-powered, Jesus-level saviour who attracts a harem of cute and sexy females from princesses to she-elves to beast and demon girls as they go on grand adventures together while engaging in a variety of *accidental* sexy-time hijinks along the way) has been absolutely dominating the anime scene for well over a decade now.
I don't think there's ever a period in anime where everything else is basically getting crushed by a single genre. Even mecha anime of the 70s/80s through the 90s which is probably the closest analogue in terms of dominance wasn't that severe in stomping out the competition, where shounen anime was neck and neck in popularity and was just starting to supplant mecha in the 2000s with the likes of Bleach and Naruto, until isekai came along and now everybody and their mother is making "I Became A [...] In Another World".
So go figure.