lol india? tech industry? what tech industry? they're a large call center at best. no tech of note comes out of india, this is a country that cant even build its own guns and has to order them from russia.
indian growth has been a disappointment for ages, even before covid indian gdp growth has...
TF?
China "owes" pakistan nothing. they are friendly for sure, but one should never expect to be given things for free, pakistan is a friend of china, not some colony of china. As far as i know there is no directive that says the planes must be all built in china, heck the engines are american...
no, they made no such decision. they were not and still isnt in any position to make such a choice, they accept whatever decision the USA forced on them, As you say "they were the losers of WW2."
also "the best technology"? not at all. the us refused and continue to refuse to share F-22 tech...
HQ-10?
they are present on most new chinese vessels, not just the 055. including everything from 056 corvettes, 052D destroyers, to 001, 002 and 003 carriers and the LHDs that china has.
they arent on the frigates, but technically speaking it shouldn't be very difficult to do so if they wanted...
First of all, Elon Musk isnt some god. what he wants and what actually works are different things.
second, I am unfamiliar with the politics of libya so i wont say much about it, but what I can say is that libya had almost the same GDP in 2011(the eve of its revolution) as it did in 1992, that's...
it did though. while it did not project hard power very far, there were two mitigating factors, one is that china itself exists in a very important part of the world, between us occupied SK, Japan and the soviet union itself. just existing there and having a large military made it important on...
its more than just the sales. its the fact that the us and Co. did so without consultation, messages or any warning to the french and EU. the french didn't find out about this until the day of the declaration, they called it a stab in the back, and it does seem like it. that said, EU needs to...
thats happens in real life too. that's basically what private-employee owned companies do. except the part where the payment comes out of the employee's pockets and everyone being a equal owner. because a company might need decisively action, you cannot run a company where every action requires...
not everyone is the US or China, those bases holding a dozen Rafael or typhoon and a naval task force is a serious threat to most countries in the world, and they have bases all over the world.
yes, and that's why spanish is a recognized UN official language. so as you can see it does give...
france and Britain still retain bases around the world that allows for power projection and is hugely influential in their former colonies.
just google the number of nations that still have french as a primary or secondary language in africa.
these are all important influences that gives them...
your sorry excuse of a military ran away and froze to death in rivers rather than face the Chinese.
your gang ambushed unarmed chinese negotiators with 10 times the number of people and lost.
this fight exposed capabilities alright. just not the chinese ones, but rather how cowardly indians...
pretty sure china already considers Australia to be just an extension of the US. so these subs would really just be viewed as the US getting a few more subs. not too much has changed, except apparently india got thrown out of the club. considering us, Australia and uk already have defence...
so why are you complaining that china is taking action now?
china has taken de facto control of the islands from japan.
it is uninhabited so whoever takes control of the surrounding waters controls the island.
in 2010, the japanese were able to arrest the chinese near the islands...
"genocide" according to the west. using "trustworthy" evidences, such as "concentration camps" later determined to be warehouses, schools and normal prisons. "witness" who state they saw nothing physically then change their stories 3 years later to state they saw rape, torture, and slavery...
They have such extra power because they have the hard power and influence to back it up.
the current set up is fine for the most part. afterall the current P5, is the most complete militaries in the world. they all have fusion nukes and can pretty much produce everything a modern military needs...
japan has a very unbalanced navy. it was built entirely around supporting US forces. its good at ASW, meant to block in the soviet navies. it has decent anti-air, again to take out some of the soviet bombers in the event of ww3.
it has practically no power projection and only recently acquired...
this "pact" gives india some support but also brings with it insurmountable obstacles. for one, even if india/china become close friends, china will never allow any vote to pass that allows japan to get a UNSC permanent seat. this is a non-negotiable. and not just china, but countries like...