China needs to stifle India's development? China needs to spy on India, to see how many toilets India is building?

Palki Sharma is again complaining that China is trying to stifle India's development using unfair competition. What global brand has India been showcasing to support her claim that India is indeed competing with China and that China is using unfair tactics to sabotage India.
I think that is a big insult to China trying to put India on the same level playing field. Apple and Foxconn are not investing further in India because China is controlling its supply chain servicing Apple in India. Is that what she is nagging about? Is she talking about China clamping down on rare earth elements exported to India, now that China knows India is reselling them to USA defense contractors making weapons to target China? That incidentally is just collateral damage targeting India's own EV makers and manufacturing, sorry to say, for consorting with China's most bitter enemy.

In fact, China cares two hoots what India does, whether it is trying to become the next superpower, the factory of the world, dominate global EV making, sending rockets to Mars or exploring the sun at night. China does what it does best and does what it needs to protect its interest, nothing more.

Palki Sharma is also trying to demonize China by claiming that China is placing hidden ships spying on India. That must be a joke to say the least. What has India got that China does not already have and even more than what India can hope for? China has its own Beidou Navigation Satellites that can see India's sensitive infrastructures for target practice. India better wakes up and not try to toe the USA line by demonizing China too vigorously and shooting its own foot. During COVID19, India was conned into providing vaccines to counter China's vaccine diplomacy, under the dictate of the USA, that in the end deprived India of vaccines for its own use, resulting in the death of millions. I guess lessons are never learnt by India and consorting with the devil cannot be broken off.


Anonymous

China more dependent on America or the other way round?

 China arming Iran is indirectly also arming the Houthis in time to come, with Iran now the main supporter of the Houthis. The West can make a song and dance to demonize China about it but isn't that the same as the USA and EU arming Ukraine and Israel. What works for them cannot be denied for China, right?

Sure, the USA can start sanctioning more of China, since Iran is already deep in the USA's sanctions list. Better still, the USA can now completely decouple from China, a move which I believe China is taking in its stride. If China can announce that it is ready for any war with the USA, it shows it has no fear of decoupling from the USA - lock, stock and barrel. Who is in need of what from whom? Rare earth, consumer goods, raw resources are all in the hands and under control by China. China can wash its hands of doing business with USA. But can the USA afford that? Why is the USA not touting about de-coupling, only squeaking about 'de-risking'? People can deduce why the USA is backtracking on decoupling, whatever 'word salad' the USA choose to trot out.

Anonymous

China on the right track towards self sufficiency in advanced tech

Thankfully, China is not buying any weapons from the USA, otherwise it will be used to blackmail the Chinese. China is making its own weapons, fighter jets, aircraft carriers, missiles, satellite navigation system and does not have to depend on the USA or the West. In fact, China's domestic aviation is going to be self -reliant on just the Comac planes, with Boeing and Airbus losing market share in China going forward.

It was reported, just recently, that the USA and its allies, Japan and South Korea had agreed to deny selling high grade bearings for China's high-speed trains, hoping to derail China's runaway HSR construction that is outshining Japan. What they failed to find out was that China had already figured out how to make high grade steel bearings comparable with imported ones from Japan and South Korea for its high-speed trains.

The USA also tried to stop the sale of commercial jet engines to China recently, but we know that China is already well versed in making its own jet engines for its fighter jets. So, what is the problem if the USA stop selling engines for Chinese planes? It just makes China more determined to make everything itself.


Anonymous

Air India's 171 crashed...Fuel control switches were cut off

Fuel control switches were switched from "run" to "cutoff", before an Air India plane crashed last month, a preliminary investigation report by India's Aircraft Accident Investigation Burea revealed early on Saturday.

Shortly after takeoff, and once the plane reached its top recorded speed of 180 knots, “the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another" within a second, which caused a loss of engine thrust moments after it left the runway, the report revealed.

Shortly after both switches had been turned off, they were flipped back into the run position. One of the pilots transmitted "MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY," however, the plane could not gain power quickly enough after it had begun to lose altitude.

The flight lasted around 30 seconds before it crashed.

The report also revealed that, prior to the crash, one pilot could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking why the other had cut off the fuel. The other pilot responded that he had not done so.  MSN

The most critical moments of an aircraft movement are taking off and landing. When taking off, full power and maintaining full power are crucial for a safe take off. Cutting off fuel by switching off the fuel switches is never done as it would crash the aircraft. Every pilot knows that and would not do that.

Why were the switches turned off? Who turned off the switches? Definitely not the pilot or co pilot unless they did it deliberately to crash the aircraft. In this case this would not happen. Recorded pilot conversation, one pilot asked the other why he switched off the fuel. The other replied he did not. And the switched was in the on position, suggesting the pilot turned it back to on, or was it in the on position all the time?

 

So, how could the fuel switches turned off on their own? Mechanical problems? Unlikely as no switches would flip on its own unless it is wired and controlled by some software. The switch may be switched off if the software is faulty or being hacked, or being programmed to do so, like a kill switch, or being switched off deliberately by someone other than the pilots.  A software or a kill switch that can turn off the fuel is deadly and cannot be allowed in the first place. This kill switch facility must be removed in all aircraft immediate. This function was introduced after the 911 incident to justify ground operators to take control of the aircraft in a hijack situation. Caveat, if there is indeed such a kill switch installed.

If the investigation team does a thorough job, more evidence would be uncovered. By the way, China's Southern Airline had sold all its 787-8 Dreamliners as a safety measure, in consideration of the safety of all its passengers and air crews.  Better to be safe than sorry.

Many operators of Boeing 787-8 are investigating the fuel cut off switch, physically and mechanically. The control and problem are the software that controls it.

Albanese should shut up about Taiwan when in China

 Aussie PM Albanese is in China supposedly for trade talks and improving relations. What the shit must he be talking about Taiwan and wanting to preserve the status quo, ie Taiwan remaining a separate part of China? Who does Albanese think he is? China is the one to decide what will happen with Taiwan, not little Australia. The issue of Taiwan has nothing to do with trade and improving relations with China. Raising Taiwan, Tibet or Xinjiang is the white men's way of provoking China, telling China they have a right to meddle with China's internal affairs. This applies to all the western rogues that went to China. They are guests and need to behave themselves and stop being rude to their hosts. China's domestic affairs are none of their business. You to trade with China, talk trade.

The Chinese do not meddle with the domestic affairs of other countries. When they visit or meet with foreign delegations, they talk about trade and matters of mutual cooperation. The Chinese never raise issues concerning the internal affairs of other countries. They never tell the Aussies to return their land to the aborigines. They never ask the Aussies to repent for their crimes against the aborigines. Why are these rude and cocky white men always want to meddle with China's domestic affairs? 

Australia is just another little Mickey Mouse but behaving like it is superpower. It is insignificant, irrelevant in international politics. Australia should not think too highly of itself. The days when it can bully the Pacific Island nations and Asean nations are over. China can write off Australia and cut off all trade and relations with Australia and trade with the rest of the world. Without China, Australia would go into recession immediately.

However, China is partially to be blamed for the rudeness of these white foreigners. China allows these white foreigners to be rude even in Beijing and just respond with a stupid smile when the foreigners are rude and insist on meddling with China's internal affairs. If China continues to allow foreigners to misbehave while being welcomed as guests in China, the foreigners will take it as a sign of weakness and that China is afraid to offend the foreigners.

Wondering why it is so difficult for China to learn to deal with rude foreigners. After being bullied for centuries by the white men, it becomes second nature, not knowing how to stop it or even telling the foreigners to stop being rude. When the foreigners are rude, it is them telling China that China can be kicked around.

So they will continue to slap China straight in their face, in China, until one day when China dares to stop them. When would China dare to stop being humiliated and put an end to this? Hopefully not too long. Rude visitors must be treated rudely and shown the door. That is the only way they know, as they asked for it. Why be gracious and invite rude visitors and be slapped in their own house?

All the white rogues know what they are doing. They want to sit on the Chinese, to tell the Chinese that the white men are superior to them. Albanese said it on purpose, to put the Chinese in their right place, the place that China sat during the hundred years of humiliation.

PS. Albanese also talked about Australia's policy of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan, which is the same as the Americans. Strategic ambiguity is the Americans' way of saying we speak in forked tongue, we say one thing, mean another.