Posted on 04/05/2021 6:04:55 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
China and the United States have sailed aircraft carriers into contentious waters in the East and South China seas, the latest maritime contest between the strategic rivals at a time of heightened tensions in the region.
Analysts say their naval presence in the Indo-Pacific at the same time highlights the risk of military conflict between the powers, as Beijing asserts its maritime claims in the region more aggressively and Washington focuses its defence strategy on countering China.
It comes amid a deepening dispute between Beijing and Manila over the presence of Chinese vessels - which the Philippines says are a maritime militia but China says are fishing boats - in the Whitsun Reef in the South China Sea. The Philippine foreign ministry on Monday said China's claims that the boats were sheltering from bad weather were "blatant falsehoods" and "clearly (a) false narrative of China's expansive and illegitimate claims in the West Philippine Sea".
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The Butchers of Beijing knew that President Trump was to be feared.Today they know that Feels Up/Heels Up are to be laughed at. The world will be a much more dangerous place now that a weak,amoral man is leading this country.
That is a photo for the ages, my dear FRiends.
If you oppose China, that shows that you are a racist and Hate Asians ™
R.I.P.
China is preparing for war with the US. I really could give two shits about disputed islands around China. China could sink our carriers in a heartbeat if they wanted. God help us if Biden is commander in chief during a war.
The Eastern World, it is explodin’....
Exactly
If Joe sent them there, it is to back up the ChiComs. He’s gotta earn his percentage from Xi.
And if they waste a bunch of ordnance into the sea at the same time, he will earn his percentage from the Militay Industrial Complex too.
Good times a comin for the biden offshore accounts.
Bell Labs invented the transistor, and the first license to manufacture went to a Japanese company. When asked, they told Bell they planned to use it to make radios. [old anecdote]
Three Bell Labs scientists shared the 1956 Nobel in Physics for the transistor. They wound up estranged from each other.
The crankiest, William Shockley, wound up starting what we now know as silicon valley, but ironically he abandoned research in silicon, which led to an exodus of talent that formed Fairchild Semiconductor, a company often regarded as the fountainhead of semiconductor research and spinoff companies.
Walter Houser Brattain remained in pure research, including interdisciplinary research.
John Bardeen went on to share a second Nobel in Physics in 1972 for superconductivity research. From Wikipedia:
[snip] At the (1956) Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Brattain and Shockley received their awards that night from King Gustaf VI Adolf. Bardeen brought only one of his three children to the Nobel Prize ceremony. King Gustav chided Bardeen because of this, and Bardeen assured the King that the next time he would bring all his children to the ceremony. He kept his promise. [/snip]
Bardeen passed in 1991, but his later work (which continued until close to his death) may eventually warrant a third Nobel in physics. He is, currently, the only person to have won it twice.
Ramming speed!
Call it the Great Fish War. China is preparing to start a mass killing spree over fish. Really.
The iron content of one aircraft carrier is enough to fertilize the open ocean to 1) feed a trillion fish, 2) remove excess carbon from the atmosphere, 3) trigger a little ice age for some global cooling. One party rule centralized planning should be able to accomplish that, but their vanity prevents it.
I believe TI invented it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=gLNo4absXLA&feature=emb_logo
I love the Chinese people which is why I hate the Chinese government.
yeah and Edison ripped off tesla, the silicon junction changed the world
Exactly! Biden is a wuss and our enemies are so happy.
Never give up your guns
Can’t avoid a war with China if they are determined to have
one. And they are determined to have one.
That’s pretty much the way I see it also.
The problem isn’t only Biden.
His people (the Democrats) haven’t been able to wage a war
since WWII.
China knows that.
I’d say China is in the catbird’s seat for just short of
four more years.
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