Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Hongjian

Sounds like a Great Bargain.
China will pull back its tariffs on US pork and wine.

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"It's always fun to see the diehard Trump supporters justify this complete about-face from Trump's earlier position. It destroys the Iran sanctions argument, it directly contradicts his argument about Chinese jobs and goes against the whole MAGA thing (by propping up Chinese corporations). It's opposite day, and the people tying themselves in knots justifying this are once again highlighting their lack of integrity." - Gary Patterson

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ORIGINAL: Hongjian

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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/HenriKenhmann/status/992428579102244864

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.

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ORIGINAL: Dysta

I would like to cite more military hardware news from Chinese news sites, but given by their increasingly absurd tones and not everybody can understand Chinese, I have difficulty to find these sources in English either.

And some of my non-military news are serving as tangents, which I must say it does induce some political and philosophical perspectives in it. I find it not all players would buy what they said, let alone making a scenario about it.

I will slow down and looking for translational solutions instead of quick-posting, I must admit here and apologize.

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ORIGINAL: kevinkin

Symbolic bridge linking Crimea with Russia over the Kerch Strait opened by Vladimir Putin:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crimea-bridge-to-russia-opened-by-vladimir-putin-today-2018-05-15/

Nice target for JASSM-ER.

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ORIGINAL: kevinkin

No worries ... was talking about simulation. And a scenario to that effect is on the way. Thanks for the link. I may use it in the briefing. On second thought, never mind, it's from TASS.

Kevin

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Rogan's article also violates international law:

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ORIGINAL: kevinkin

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Rogan's article also violates international law:

The dude needs to take his geopolitical frustrations out in CMANO. Here we can "kill off" NATO and Russians in huge numbers with "You Brexit, You Fix it!" and even sandbox the complete annihilation of any entity he wants with "nukes". Threatening an inanimate object like a bridge is child's play.

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ORIGINAL: Sharana

Nothing unbelievable. If it flies somewhere close to the border J-20 will have the Luneburg lens. On the J-20 photo in the articles you posted it even has one. With such RCS there is no wonder that it's picked up, on radar it should be almost as big as some Boeing or Airbus. Can find you enough articles where the Chinese say they detected F-22. Well of course they detected it with RCS enhancer, no one would let 5th gen jets fly in peace time without them if they are close to potential enemies.

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Nevertheless, they did not denied the Chinese state report about the deployment of "20" at the plateau, because:

"Y-20 military transit to plateau airfield."

Say, are Indian actually saw that kind of "20"?

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Lockheed Martin’s F-35 has seen combat for the first time.

The Israel Defense Forces announced on its Twitter account that the Israeli version of the aircraft, using its “Adir” moniker was used in operational missions.

“The Adir planes are already operational and flying in operational missions,” the tweet said, quoting Israel Air Force head Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin. “We are the first in the world to use the F-35 in operational activity.”

The Israeli Air Force used the F-35 in two recent strikes in Syria, Norkin said, according to the news outlet Haaretz.

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ORIGINAL: Filitch
Four ballistic missile salvo by Pr.955 Borey-class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUdIUdouLv0