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US politicians wont easily tied up her hegemon with taiwan island, as such there wont be any official or legally binding document with taiwan. They know that it is a big risk to stake upon, for the moment they lose any armed conflicts it spell the end of her global superpower status.
It’s more about paranoia than stuff like hierarchy and status. They see investments like they are signing a deal with the devil. So it doesn’t matter how much it could improve their quality of life. China could create a medicine that extends life by 100 years and they think will convince themselves that China created a brain controlling drug.
Hold onto your horses, people; just like shale oil and fracking made americans salivate over torching the middle eastern oil fields to get the world dependant on US hegemony for oil and access to oilfields, and how US' 'rare earths mine' in Colorado was gonna kill China's RE monopoly, the latest puff piece from the anglo presstitute service is how american manufacturning is returning and gonna kill Chinese manufacturing:
Not so fast, buddy; as Goldman would put it:
The thing is, the Americans have now made depriving China of its territory of Taiwan (which even american officially recognises as being an inalienable part of China) a matter of life and death for its regime, that if it loses Taiwan- indeed- if it loses the entire presence of east asia, since a war over Taiwan will not remain localised- there is going to a greater than 50% chance of violent civil revolt at home. American leaders can't make deals with China without looking weak, so it's going to a death spiral into war.
Noone in the USG has the cojones to reverse that tide so it's looking more and more like the young being dragged off to a war by petulant boomers.
Not so fast, buddy; as Goldman would put it:
The thing is, the Americans have now made depriving China of its territory of Taiwan (which even american officially recognises as being an inalienable part of China) a matter of life and death for its regime, that if it loses Taiwan- indeed- if it loses the entire presence of east asia, since a war over Taiwan will not remain localised- there is going to a greater than 50% chance of violent civil revolt at home. American leaders can't make deals with China without looking weak, so it's going to a death spiral into war.
for better or worse, the USG has made its entire legitimacy predicated on whether or not Taiwan is returned to China or 'remains democratic'.
Noone in the USG has the cojones to reverse that tide so it's looking more and more like the young being dragged off to a war by petulant boomers.
I mean with so-called educated experts like these spewing garbage after garbage, essentially telling their fellow Americans that the reasons for their failures in life is not because of their corrupt and ineffectual governments, political parties, leaders led by their greedy corporations the easy bogey man to use is CHYNA, SEE SEE PEE, Cococomunism!!
Check this new argument against CHYNA, it's freaking hillarious!!
This is what I think about Messieurs Macron's visit to China, and his one on one meeting with comrade Xi.
I am writing this up, because with all the noise in the media, had not the time or intention to spare a thought about, until right now, heh.
This visit was a routine state visit.
Macron made point of that, that the last time he came to China was in 2019, which was before the pandemic, and all this time no one came to China because China was under quarantine of sorts. Once the order was given that the pandemic is over, then everything returns to normal, including state visits.
What should we make of this routine state visit? I don't know. Kind of like, who really cares, eh? If is it routine, then people just doing their jobs.
What is not routine, was that von der Leyen garden woman inviting herself, and next the Borrell jungle-man, more or less inviting himself to visit China in whatever capacity they represent. Maybe they come to personal deliver more sanctions? Who knows. The appearance of Eve the Adam in the jungle, is unwarranted and pointless. Still they insist on coming. That is kind of bizarre.
Should this routine state visitor from the French leader, be viewed in a larger context of China and United States tensions?
After all, more state visits are scheduled to arrive in Beijing.
In conclusion, I think this entire write up, is pointless in itself.
There is two pointless conclusions.
1) These state visits are business as usual, after the pandemic. Life goes on.
2) The Americans will believe anything they tell themselves. The Americans will surely have the echo chamber repeat that France is most definitely on America's side and together will take on China. This recent state visit from Macron was a mere formality signifying nothing. And so are all the other state visits to China, the echo chamber has spoken.
3) Why no one wants to visit Uncle Joseph in Washington DC? Not even them Mexicans want to come on a state visit. Wonder what the answer to that would be?
4) SHUT UP ... the sound from the echo chamber.
I am writing this up, because with all the noise in the media, had not the time or intention to spare a thought about, until right now, heh.
This visit was a routine state visit.
Macron made point of that, that the last time he came to China was in 2019, which was before the pandemic, and all this time no one came to China because China was under quarantine of sorts. Once the order was given that the pandemic is over, then everything returns to normal, including state visits.
What should we make of this routine state visit? I don't know. Kind of like, who really cares, eh? If is it routine, then people just doing their jobs.
What is not routine, was that von der Leyen garden woman inviting herself, and next the Borrell jungle-man, more or less inviting himself to visit China in whatever capacity they represent. Maybe they come to personal deliver more sanctions? Who knows. The appearance of Eve the Adam in the jungle, is unwarranted and pointless. Still they insist on coming. That is kind of bizarre.
Should this routine state visitor from the French leader, be viewed in a larger context of China and United States tensions?
After all, more state visits are scheduled to arrive in Beijing.
In conclusion, I think this entire write up, is pointless in itself.
There is two pointless conclusions.
1) These state visits are business as usual, after the pandemic. Life goes on.
2) The Americans will believe anything they tell themselves. The Americans will surely have the echo chamber repeat that France is most definitely on America's side and together will take on China. This recent state visit from Macron was a mere formality signifying nothing. And so are all the other state visits to China, the echo chamber has spoken.
3) Why no one wants to visit Uncle Joseph in Washington DC? Not even them Mexicans want to come on a state visit. Wonder what the answer to that would be?
4) SHUT UP ... the sound from the echo chamber.
I find it remarkable but not surprising that Anglo mouthpieces would psychologically transfer their own ancestral sins onto enemies like the Chinese. It was the Anglos who spread smallpox blankets and pushed opium on the Chinese at gunpoint, and yet anglo propaganda twists it so they remain perpetual victims. Their mythology proclaims victimhood to be the highest ideal since it gives them carte blanche to commit the most egregious of sins. The United States is the world's first crybully superpower, who shrieks in pain as he strikes you.
Re Macron, by Hu Xujin:
Speaking of aircraft, it's likely the UAE saw the track record of F-35s and decided it wasnt worth it to give up huawei's 5G for an american death trap:
China taking off the gloves to 'teach the Anglos a lesson' as i'm paraphrasing Deng who once put it about the Vietnamese, reminds me of this exchange in an intervew between Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's legendary Founder and Statesman and The Atlantic:
tbh this sounds more like US politicians trying to make the most of freebies and first class travel and gibs before the inevitable austerity and fiscal tightening of a dollar losing its currency reserve status.
Well, good for your stepfather-in-law, I guess. Not many can actually afford to fly (and have a type rating, I assume) on a turbojet, nevermind owning one.
But I think you are inadvertently proving my point.
BLUF: Dunning-Kruger effect is real, and it lead people into making bad choices that kills them. But again, best to wait for the NTSB report.
Now it should be obvious that the majority of pilots, even those "successful in their field" kind, aren't suicidally overconfident. After all, aircraft crashes make the news precisely because it doesn't happen often, and even then in most cases, the occupants walk away virtually unscathed. However, those people usually take pride in their flying skills, and hold themselves to a much higher standard than what is legally required. That being said, the type that ended up dead in news usually don't.
I will spare you the spiel I wrote on Beechcraft Bonanza and Cirrus aircraft in general
Private Pilot Licence/certificate (PPL) is actually a really low bar in the grand scheme of things. In theory, one can immediately jump into training for (and thus flying) a turbojet with just a PPL with proper endorsements (IIRC high-performance, complex, maybe multi-engine).
People actually flying planes for pay, such as aerial survey, would require a more stringent training and testing (i.e. Commercial Pilot Licence/certificate (CPL) at least).
People flying scheduled passenger service (what people will probably first think of when talking about "aircraft pilot") would require even more stringent and continuous training and testing (i.e. Airline Transport Pilot Licence/certificate (ATPL) and type rating at least, since they are usually flying a jet or heavy turboprop).
People actually flying planes for pay, such as aerial survey, would require a more stringent training and testing (i.e. Commercial Pilot Licence/certificate (CPL) at least).
People flying scheduled passenger service (what people will probably first think of when talking about "aircraft pilot") would require even more stringent and continuous training and testing (i.e. Airline Transport Pilot Licence/certificate (ATPL) and type rating at least, since they are usually flying a jet or heavy turboprop).
As I said in a previous post, the cost and time associated with obtaining a PPL (while pretty low in the grand scheme of things, is still expensive and time-consuming) and buying and paying upkeep for an aircraft tend to self-select a set of "successful" people with traits like confidence, goal-oriented mindset, and... "intelligence" (for a lack of better word at the moment). However, what makes them successful in their field of pursuit may well work against them in flying safely:
- their overconfidence overrides their sense of prudence
- their expertise in their own field and the aforementioned overconfidence lead them to believe that they are an expert in every field, even when they are not (i.e. Dunning-Kruger effect, kind of...)
- their goal-oriented mindset plus the previous points lead them to have acute get-there-itis
As I said, the "successful" type who takes flying seriously often holds themselves to a much higher standard. For example, they will go for CPL even when they have zero intention of flying for payment of any kind, because they wanted that extra scrutiny. Some may even go for ATPL, since type ratings are tested to ATP standards anyway, so they figured: "might as well". This usually means they have the training and foresight to avoid putting themselves into dangerous situation in the first place. Sadly, it is no panecea -- we human beings are fickle and flawed being, alas.
Anyway, this was one helluva tangent. The reason I wrote the original post was because I thought OP for the news
It's actually kinda bad to make any judgement right now because we simply don't know the details, which is why I said it's best to wait for NTSB report. That being said, if "They" really did pull a "Strange Brew" on the Raytheon guy and "They" did it properly, it's probably not going to show up in the final report... and this is your cue to get your tin foil hat out
That's enough for general aviations, back to your regularly scheduled programming on Tw*tter randos being pants-on-head stupid. BMUFL, out.
I now understand what Comrade Ma Yi Long is doing with these new government funded twitter labels before his expected meeting with Li Qiang this week.
Its the same 投名状 that Macron did with TotalEnergies selling LNG in Yuan before his visit to China.
Ma Yi Long is already in China now and will also meet with the leaders of CATL.
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