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[enroger]

Consider the Chinese response to Golden Dome.

There are 4+ Chinese startups working on reusable launch tickets like SpaceX. My guess is that in 5 years time, we'll see Chinese reusable rockets with lower launch costs than SpaceX. Then combine this with Chinese advantages in areas such as military missile costs and development speed.

Then we can reasonably expect China to develop their own Golden Dome system, with space-based targeting of moving missiles and aircraft, along with thousands of in-orbit weapons. This would likely be at significantly lower cost.

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The US already has China's coastline surrounded with US bases, where US missiles and aircraft can already strike mainland China.

In comparison, China has no way to cross the Pacific Ocean and reach the Continental USA with conventional weapons.
But with a Chinese Golden Dome system with thousands of orbiting weapons, we can now expect ground targets in the Continental USA to be hit.

More broadly speaking, the US Navy and the hundreds of US military bases allow for military power projection all over the world.
Currently, China doesn't have this. But with a Chinese Golden Dome that covers the planet...

So from a strategic perspective, the weaponisation of space with Golden Dome will be a net negative for the US.

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Can you imagine the outrage when the US realises that China has responded with their own Golden Dome?

Golden dome is gonna be another one of those cases where Americans made the PPT and China make the finished product

 

[reservior dogs]

Golden Dome is such a cringe name for Star Wars 2
In practice its main effect will just be acting as a tool to defund large number of American defence programs without anything to show for itself. The number one rule of these fantasy programs is not to actually fund it.
Weaponization of space is something China has been preparing for along time, the F in China's FOB tests is optional after all. As far as China is concerened the more US spend on it the better, but there's no reason to change what China's already working on.

It's also not needed in a Pacific war, peacetime control of islands has little bearing on their control during war, US bases in western pacific in peacetime becomes Chinese bases in western pacific in war, the actual ability to project power across the Pacific rests in logistics and merchant marine, China actually has the logistics to sustain a war across the Pacific, US does not.

As a president, you get kick backs for awarding new contracts to MIC. When Trump came to office, he probably saw that most of the juicy kickbacks have already been spoken for. The Golden Dome allow him to award new contracts to MIC, getting his share of the kickback. As to how this would actually work in practice, it will remain a theoretical issue. For the foreseeable future, there won't be anyone shooting missiles into the U.S. as long as the U.S. does not force the hands of a handful of countries that are capable of doing so. Of course it is a boondoggle, but money is being made and that is what matters.

 

[GulfLander]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1928554610953769394

 

[Wrought]

Speaks for itself.

 

[manqiangrexue]

You absolutely can. Vicious and sleepy works brilliantly if you are crafting a layered character.

By that logic, you can say any 2 things about a person and if they contradict, you are "brilliantly creating a layered character."

Insult bits twice.

Which 2 insults wouldn't, by that logic?

Something the democrats can never come up with.

Probably because unlike Trump supporters, their brains have a logic filter, so they came up with ones that actually make sense listed below.

Someone that seems lazy or sleepy turns out to be lethally dangerous.

If that's true, then Trump would be the idiot again for nicknaming him sleepy, which would help his enemy hide his true lethal nature.

Kind killer.

gentle menace.

Polished salvage.

Just putting 2 conflicting things together doesn't actually make them make sense, unfortunately.

rocket man. And calling Kim thin. Hahah

As an "insult," that is the most counter-productive I have ever heard, but unintentionally, that is an awesome nickname. Rocket man is something to be proud of, as a guy who brought nuclear defense to his country. As for thin, Trump should be the one to talk. Might as well say Kim probably has bone spurs while he's projecting LOL

crooked Hillary

crazy Nancy.

little Marco.

KAH - ma - la.

WTF are these, even? These are random playground insults added to a name, one of which he picked into his own cabinet. KAH-ma-la?? That's literally just her actual name said slowly and more deliberately. Most people don't say these things because they don't want to be a grown man sounding like a child, AKA retarded. He also called Hillary a nasty woman LOL. What an "insult"...

You wanna hear some insults that are humorous and make sense?
Colonel Bone Spurs
Orange Menace
Mango Mussolini
Cheeto Benito
Don the Con
The Dotard

Trump is the absolute master at this. And it works.

He's an absolute master at rallying possum-IQ'd people for sure. That he was elected is a damning condemnation of America's general intellect. This is the movie "Idiocracy" in real life.

 

[GulfLander]

USTR Extends Certain Exclusions from China Section 301 Tariffs

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[burritocannon]

what exactly are these exempted items? i'm not about to go dig up--
okay i dug up two items. solar panels? and... nonwoven wipes.

always got to love the language, how it allows them to aggressively state they're looking the other way.

 

[Captainquirk]

By that logic, you can say any 2 things about a person and if they contradict, you are "brilliantly creating a layered character."

Which 2 insults wouldn't, by that logic?

Probably because unlike Trump supporters, their brains have a logic filter, so they came up with ones that actually make sense listed below.

If that's true, then Trump would be the idiot again for nicknaming him sleepy, which would help his enemy hide his true lethal nature.

Just putting 2 conflicting things together doesn't actually make them make sense, unfortunately.

As an "insult," that is the most counter-productive I have ever heard, but unintentionally, that is an awesome nickname. Rocket man is something to be proud of, as a guy who brought nuclear defense to his country. As for thin, Trump should be the one to talk. Might as well say Kim probably has bone spurs while he's projecting LOL

WTF are these, even? These are random playground insults added to a name, one of which he picked into his own cabinet. KAH-ma-la?? That's literally just her actual name said slowly and more deliberately. Most people don't say these things because they don't want to be a grown man sounding like a child, AKA retarded. He also called Hillary a nasty woman LOL. What an "insult"...

You wanna hear some insults that are humorous and make sense?
Colonel Bone Spurs
Orange Menace
Mango Mussolini
Cheeto Benito
Don the Con
The Dotard

He's an absolute master at rallying possum-IQ'd people for sure. That he was elected is a damning condemnation of America's general intellect. This is the movie "Idiocracy" in real life.

It works though.

Rubio now forever known as little Marco.

Hilary. All her ambitions…down the drain.

Joe. Now and forever known as sleepy joe. Sad cause Biden is a good guy. No match against DJT though.

 

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US can do no wrong. After all this China still agrees to talk?

US says hey, sorry for all the sanctions. But let’s talk ok. China says yea let’s talk. Win win to be friends.

 

[MortyandRick]

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US can do no wrong. After all this China still agrees to talk?

US says hey, sorry for all the sanctions. But let’s talk ok. China says yea let’s talk. Win win to be friends.

There's no date set, lol. How can you assume they are gonna talk soon?!?
Wishful thinking. Coming from a US govt official, basically they are hoping and begging china to talk.

They were hoping China take off the RE exports during the last visit and when that didn't happen, they threw a tantrum, and now beg to talk. Lol

Lost all credibility