Ladakh Flash Point

SimaQian said:

Lets be realistic here. Tibet will never be a gateway for exchange goods and people between China and India even if one day China and India will become allies. Not in the next 100 years, even in the next one thousand years or even ten thousand years. Its just a simple fact the Tibetan plateau, averages at 4300 meters. This even excludes the higher altitudes of the Himalayas range which acts as dividing wall between China and India. It takes so much potential energy to lift 1 kilogram of something in there, not to mention the kinetic energy needed to transfer from developed places below the Tibet plateau to developed places in Tibet plateau.

This is the reason why logistics to Tibet is poor over the centuries because of so much energy cost to move something with little return.

Majority of goods are moved on oceans over distances because the potential energy cost is zero.
Its very expensive to move 1 TEU container 4 km up.

China values Tibet for strategic reasons not for economic reasons.

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tresriogrande said:

It's absurd that Brazil and Bulgaria are in front of China. I am very familiar with Brazil and just recently went to Bulgaria. Both countries are much poor than China and their food in terms of how expensive to locals are way less affordable comparing to China. People made up this list had no idea how people eat in China.

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tresriogrande said:

It's absurd that Brazil and Bulgaria are in front of China. I am very familiar with Brazil and just recently went to Bulgaria. Both countries are much poor than China and their food in terms of how expensive to locals are way less affordable comparing to China. People made up this list had no idea how people eat in China.

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Figaro said:

Even if Tibet holds no strategic or economic value at all, China will still defend it to the death. There seems to be a huge global misconception that China is only defending Tibet and Xinjiang because they are extremely strategically valuable (e.g. OBOR, CPEC). But what they have forgotten is that these are all Chinese territories and as such, will be defended to the upmost means.

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ougoah said:

This EM space launch stuff is beyond off-topic. It's also ridiculously unsuitable for space launch what kind of investor scam are these guys running? What package can survive the g forces of such rapid acceleration? Unless they want to build a barrel a few hundred meters long/kilometers long to slow down the rate.

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siegecrossbow said:

Get a sneak peek of PLA’s new winter gear at the 4:00 mark.

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NeutralWarrior said:

Nice!

But..but..but I just don't understand PLA's arrangement;

1. New winter outfit with new camo + Old helmet (I really hate the old helmet) for border troopers.
2. New FAST helmet with new camo + Old uniform for paratroopers.

Why..oh..why??

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SimaQian said:

Lets be realistic here. Tibet will never be a gateway for exchange goods and people between China and India even if one day China and India will become allies. Not in the next 100 years, even in the next one thousand years or even ten thousand years. Its just a simple fact the Tibetan plateau, averages at 4300 meters. This even excludes the higher altitudes of the Himalayas range which acts as dividing wall between China and India. It takes so much potential energy to lift 1 kilogram of something in there, not to mention the kinetic energy needed to transfer from developed places below the Tibet plateau to developed places in Tibet plateau.

This is the reason why logistics to Tibet is poor over the centuries because of so much energy cost to move something with little return.

Majority of goods are moved on oceans over distances because the potential energy cost is zero.
Its very expensive to move 1 TEU container 4 km up.

China values Tibet for strategic reasons not for economic reasons.

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