Chinese made EVs cause more explosive damage sinking ships than their J-35
Related: our smart people are way smarter than their smart people.
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Don’t know how that conclusion is reached, given Indians and Chinese dominate authorship of most non biology scientific papers. And many of those are H1B types inside the US. This doesn’t make them “our” smart people.
As for the airplane, let’s start with certain realities. China doesn’t project power. Neither does Russia. We have so many residual bases scattered all over the world that we are forced to have carriers and airlift assets.
Further, just 15 years ago we were importing enormous amounts of oil (before zero interest rates made shale fracking possible) and those tankers had to be escorted. Those days are returning, according to the Permian shale people.
And so, the Chinese think mostly in terms of Taiwan, and their flow of tankers from the Middle East. They don’t need to project power all over the world. Just those tanker routes south of India and past Singapore. Like Russia, they have no interest in conquering and dominating places with no natural resources and loaded with violent Muslim refugees.
So this airplane will be mostly defensive and escorting — since the easiest way to absorb Taiwan is to cut off its oil.