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I wonder if Jinping knows there is another meaning for the word "tool" in the American vernacular.

If negotiators want to insult China, they better save their breathe. An expected disagreement seals the fate of trade war's encroachment:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HenriKenhman ... 9102244864

ORIGINAL: Rebel Yell



So much hyperbole.

Overall, the War on Terrorism has negated China’s foreign policy gains of the last decade, undermined its carefully crafted image as Asia’s only true great power, and energized the United States into playing a more assertive role internationally. While there is a broad consensus on crushing “the common scourge” of terrorism once and for all, serious differences exist between the United States and China (and others) on the ways and means of waging the War on Terrorism that could defeat the very objective of the war. Of all the major powers, China is the biggest loser because, unlike Russia, Japan, and India, it seems to be locked into a peer competitor relationship with the United States. Within a short period of six months, China’s world has been turned upside down. The War on Terrorism has unleashed a number of potentially threatening developments that could checkmate China’s strategic expansion moves and call into question predictions about China’s inevitable rise as the next superpower.

ORIGINAL: kevinkin

I don't expect a database entry any time soon:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20 ... aza-border

ORIGINAL: Hongjian

If negotiators want to insult China, they better save their breathe. An expected disagreement seals the fate of trade war's encroachment:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HenriKenhman ... 9102244864

I think demands like that are not aimed at trade war, but real war.

If the demands included that every Chinese should pay the US 1000 dollars a year and that China should stop STEM education at their universities, it wouldnt look out of place. Might also add the demand that China should import million tons of Opium per year from US-owned poppy fields in Afghanistan for good measure...

Demands like these arent "negotiating". Demands like these are typically followed by an ultimatum and threat of all-out war.

Looks like "Made in China 2025" really is the bane to the Western world. Understandable, since the entire West is threatened to loose their lifelihoods and markets once China can churn out comparable high technology at cheaper prices due to state support enabled by China's political and economic system. China would truly be a Japan+USSR on steroids, unstoppable by US enforced Plaza Accords (because unlike Japan, China isnt occupied by US troops), unable to be brought down by the lack of it's own ecoomic growth and lack of consumer goods (because unlike the USSR, China's economy isnt just growing, but the individual chinese purchasing power is also growing)... The sum of all western fears.

ORIGINAL: FlyForLenin

I have never found a statement I agree with more in my life. If only this forum had an "upvote" feature.

Since early April, nearly 350 French Navy sailors and their aircraft are deployed in the Norfolk area, home of the Carrier Air Wing 8. As the first (land-based) phase of Chesapeake mission 2018 comes to an end, the Marine Nationale (French Navy) released several pictures showing how its "sailors of the sky" maintain their skills and confirm their high level of interoperability with their American allies.

Thales is pleased to announce that the first Sea Fire radar for the French Navy’s FTI future medium-size frigates programme is now in production. The Sea Fire is fully solid-state multifunction radar with a four-panel phased array antenna. It is designed for roles ranging from ship self-defence to extended air defence, providing protection from conventional, asymmetric and emerging air and surface threats.

ORIGINAL: Dysta

And China fired a gun first: Mass rejection against American fruit imports in the name of quarantine check.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa- ... SKBN1I428K
http://news.china.com/domesticgd/100001 ... 89594.html (simplified Chinese)

ORIGINAL: navyrecognition

Back from lots of travel (therefore unable to share news here)

Pictures: 1st Phase of French Navy Chesapeake Deployment in the United States

Since early April, nearly 350 French Navy sailors and their aircraft are deployed in the Norfolk area, home of the Carrier Air Wing 8. As the first (land-based) phase of Chesapeake mission 2018 comes to an end, the Marine Nationale (French Navy) released several pictures showing how its "sailors of the sky" maintain their skills and confirm their high level of interoperability with their American allies.

Picture gallery: https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... tates.html


Sea Fire digital radar for FTI frigate programme enters production

Thales is pleased to announce that the first Sea Fire radar for the French Navy’s FTI future medium-size frigates programme is now in production. The Sea Fire is fully solid-state multifunction radar with a four-panel phased array antenna. It is designed for roles ranging from ship self-defence to extended air defence, providing protection from conventional, asymmetric and emerging air and surface threats.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... ction.html