One of these days when the western hegemony goes down and should there be any kind of a war, it would be for the best the most of the casualties be Australian soldiers, if only to teach them what happens in a world where racism against of dominate force finally has truly lethal consequences. Also helps to show the pecking order and finally ensure that australia learns that being a USA lapdog can and will get people killed. Also hoping that China ensures that none of these political a**holes ever have a life after there political tenures. In the past where the white australia policies are in force no one can do much, now however, australia is about to be put into there place for good and sadly I normally would be sad about this giving where I come from but really, these Liberial dogs**t need to be put in there place, painfully
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The article suggests Americans should go to Taiwan to learn to speak Mandarin. I gather that written Chinese is slightly different between the two countries, is there any difference in spoken Mandarin?
WOW. A real living wumao courtesy of the BBC. Too much fakery from the mental-gymnastic state media.
What did China expect honestly. Yeah I get that motor sich purchase could offer some high bypass manufacturing expertise that China could benefit from for their WS-20 and CJ-1000 programs as well as some helicopter engines? But as soon as the Ukraine movements started, they should have been able to see the writing on the wall in regards to cooperation with Ukraine on a politically neutral landscape.
China is in a budding alliance with Russia. Don’t blame Ukraine for not cooperating.
Ukraine only decided to intervene after pressure from the US. So China and Russia alliance is only a secondary reason why Ukraine blocked the deal.
Motor Sich may struggle struggling without Russian and Chinese patronage but Ukraine's domestic demand has gone way up during its conflict with Russia.
The Ukrainians were very keen to sell even after the conflict with Russia started. They benefit with a huge injection of funds, those workers will almost definitely have secured jobs because the orders from China will likely have flooded in so much they wouldn't be able to keep up seeing as they're already busy filling Ukrainian orders. It wasn't like China would be moving the whole production to China which wouldn't even be realistic. The purchase was just a quick and easy (and relatively affordable) way of accessing certain engine production technologies that Ukraine and Russia have an edge on still, in particular helicopter engines. The long term effect of selling to China would not have been favourable for Ukraine I don't think but as things go, if their domestic orders dry up, it's questionable how many customers would be left since the deal with China soured in such a way that future purchases may become unlikely especially as China just goes the long way of development and may catch up in those departments by that time.
Western nations don't buy from Motor Sich at least not to the same scale as Ukraine, China, and Russia. Actually Russia definitely isn't and won't be for some time and as Russia fills in the engine gaps left after the breakup of the Soviet Union, they have less reason to buy elsewhere. Ukraine's engine customer base is rather limited because they are competing with the west in the political third world.