maintenance cost on F-35s are sort of absurd

tbh I’m not convinced that high-maintenance stealth aircraft will have a role in modern conflicts. The Russia-Ukraine war is highlighting the issues with over engineered Western weapons in sustained conflict. If you don’t dominate the opponent logistically, they’re impractical.

it’s funny how often it happens lol

Yes but it’s pro-Western and thus good

Reuters truly the “most factual” news site

Welcome to Poland

Haha no

That’s just how free speech works

F-35s are absurdly expensive compared to F-16s though

religious fanaticism in all regards

they spent decades fighting off two superpowers playing around in their backyard

sucks to be you then

We literally saw a university president get deposed from their position for having a politically unpopular position lmao

Feel free to point out any inaccurate reporting in the article. Ad hominem attacks aren’t very useful.

Feel free to point out something inaccurate in the article rather than resorting to ad hominem arguments.

What security fears? The West has completely obliterated medium-term leverage in high tech exports. We’ve single-handedly done something that multiple levels of Chinese government have failed to: force Chinese companies to use domestic vendors despite inferior performance and higher cost. We’ve single-handedly pushed Made in China 2025 into a success story, driven millions of dollars into research investment, and contributed billions in dollars in sales into Chinese companies that people wouldn’t even consider as vendors before.

Huawei was desperately trying to sell their Ascend AI accelerators before and to no avail. Today? They’re swamped with orders. SMIC was barely usable except for research purposes and bottom-of-the-barrel development (and even research would prefer to use TSMC). Today? They’re shipping millions of units at 7nm.

Globalization theory works to protect established powers so long as established powers continue to innovate, since newcomers have little incentive to invest in fields that established powers are both 1. Much more advanced in and 2. Constantly advancing in at a pace that’s difficult to catch up to.

https://archive.ph/mPrX7

Just like how Biden saw pictures of beheaded babies, right?

AsiaFinancial needs to stop editorializing titles. It’s a bad look from a site that’s too lazy to do proper journalism or in-depth analysis.

Isn’t EEZ limited to 200nm under UNCLOS?

The Chang’e-5 samples originate from regions of the moon not yet sampled by NASA and are expected to provide valuable new scientific insight on the geological history of the moon, which could provide new understanding of the Earth-moon system and potentially inform NASA’s future lunar exploration plans. Applying for samples will ensure that United States researchers have the same research opportunities as scientists around the world