most likely they undersestimated China's resolve, thought China would sit back and simply do nothing.... didnt think China would ever go on offensive
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It's ok, I'm sure they can cope their way through this
LoL! Indian media. Just because Modi recently went to Tianjin to beg Xi Jinping for help doesn't mean China is gonna let India off at the border. You guys can never be trusted.
So India builds airbases near the Chinese border, claims of all kinds of advantages, and says they can do XYZ to the PLA. But no, that's not a threat to China. China upgrades it's airbases near the border in response, but that threatens India. So Indian cannot trust China again.
Oh. Don't worry guys. This is just going back to business as usual. Keep this up, the Victor Gao Line is coming too.
So India builds airbases near the Chinese border, claims of all kinds of advantages, and says they can do XYZ to the PLA. But no, that's not a threat to China. China upgrades it's airbases near the border in response, but that threatens India. So Indian cannot trust China again.
Oh. Don't worry guys. This is just going back to business as usual. Keep this up, the Victor Gao Line is coming too.
Recent Sentinel imagery shows 18 HAS under construction at Tingri and at Burang. Links on the PLAAF News thread.
Nice to see one of the former AVMs debunk the long-held Indian cope about high runways = lower loads.
A lot of people are wondering how western politicians are so unaware that China could punch back. It could be that they are really that ignorant.
A lot of info we know on this forum we take for granted. We have subject matter experts who keep us updated on the latest trends of China in semiconductors, ai, finance etc etc thanks to the specific threads.
Western politicians main focus area of knowledge is about themselves not China. So unless they were a China knowledge expert before, you can't expect them to know much.
Think tanks are supposed to give the info to them. But the problem is many think tanks don't even have Chinese people who can read Chinese. I've tried searching about many subjects related to China in English, it just does not work. All the info is in Chinese and even then a lot of time the info isn't there openly and you need to spend a lot of time digging for it.
A lot of info we know on this forum we take for granted. We have subject matter experts who keep us updated on the latest trends of China in semiconductors, ai, finance etc etc thanks to the specific threads.
Western politicians main focus area of knowledge is about themselves not China. So unless they were a China knowledge expert before, you can't expect them to know much.
Think tanks are supposed to give the info to them. But the problem is many think tanks don't even have Chinese people who can read Chinese. I've tried searching about many subjects related to China in English, it just does not work. All the info is in Chinese and even then a lot of time the info isn't there openly and you need to spend a lot of time digging for it.
It's not just China knowledge, it's a couple of other observations:
- Total lack of subject knowledge in western governments. From my experience you can never underestimate how little people know about something and the vast majority of personal interactions does not involve the need to know anything.
- Western culture trains people to only get their thinking points externally, especially boomers, they literally would kill themselves en-mass (COVID) if the TV told them to do so.
- People equate something's importance only with how many people talk about it and not based on it's objective merit.
Case in point, the fact that Dysprosium is needed in RE magnets, and that RE magnets are neodymium magnets, that neodymium magnets come in many grades and shapes, that they're critical for brushless motors are all knowledge that almost nobody knows outside engineering. When China first announced export control on Dysprosium 6 month ago it was just a single line item half way down the page, while this forum knew immediate it was huge, it's presentation and obsecureness hid the nature of that rule for almost one or two month before magnet shortage popped into news, they literally didn't know they were being starved as China's already starving them.
The fact that large number of Chinese officials has engineering background is far more consequential than most people realize, even if they at a surface level recgonize it's benifits.
That's ironic considering Israeli model for Taiwan would mean Gaza treatment for Taiwan.
These excuses are in themselves extremely damaging to European economy and they don't even realize it.
By calling Nexperia Dutch, or Nexperia's IP "British trade secret", implies they fundamentally believes the 2018 deal to sell 100% of the company to Wingtech was a successful theft of money rather than trade, that while they accepted the money, they never intended or even comprehended the idea of exchanging for the thing they claimed to sell.
It implies all European business inherently consider theft as Plan A, as their default mode of operation, that it's practically impossible to conduct any commercial transaction with Europe because European culture doesn't even comprehend the idea of commerce.
Its correct that China is ghosting Europe, their cultural inability to understand basic concept of law makes it impossible for any civilized nation to interact with them on good faith.