What level of protests is “justified” in the opinion of the US administration?:
More to the point; how long can the Central Government hold back:
Update:
Things are hotting up in HK:
How much longer before HK Gov.starts calling for Chinese interference?
A commentary from Richard Bush from the Brooking Institute appeared in CNA today:
Meanwhile the protesters continue to disrupt daily life in HK:
And the more radical protesters are still holed up inside the Poly campus:
just spent a week with a bunch of hongkongers, all said the same, the gov has been useless since 97
The rich property developers still run it.
Maybe a bit of Saudi treatment might work?
China getting more paranoid by the day it seems…
before a Cathy flight takes off the crew list goes to china to see if they will even allow that person to be on board during an overflight…
All crews laptops and phones checked when the crew get off and they plug cables into them but wont say what they are doing.
It seems the silent majority is speaking with the same voice as the rioters:
Pro-democracy wins (196) to pro-Beijing (28) and still counting.
Largest voter turnout in Hong Kong history.
Meanwhile China continues to re-educate their ‘terrorists’ in their west.
It’s no wonder the vote was overwhelming.
here’s an update on the propaganda
the unelected party is not the spokesperson for 1 billion people…
True. The only difference between the USA and China is what they call their governing system. USA claims to be democracy. China claims to be communist. Neither are truly democratic or communist. At the end of the day unelected oligarchs control both countries.
watch the vid, its one person explaining the big picture and what I have thought all along with the current trend of your life moving to the phone. China is almost there.
It going to be lots like the tv series Person of Interest
Whenever Kyle Bass starts talking about anything on his program I get suspicious as he is a notorious short seller, made his name shorting US housing mortgages before the 2008-09 crash. He’s a noted China bear and probably still a bit miffed his more recent short against the yuan didn’t work out too well.One wonders if he is in investing parlance “talking his own book.”
yes he looks a bit like a car salesman but its what the other guy says thats interesting
COSCO the world’s largest integrated shipping company and SPIC, the world leader in renewable energy generation, has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to develop a world-class logistics service and supply chain service provider:
http://en.portnews.ru/news/288372/
China is also the first to test an autonomous cargo ship, although a very small one:
I thought the Japs were doing this several years ago?
Don’t know about"several years ago",but the Japanese carried out a full scale trial on a large ship on an actual voyage not long ago:
Small scale testing has been going on for several years and in several countries though.
Also with design input from Aker Arctic??
To my knowledge, this heavy polar icebreaker design has been developed by the Marine Design & Research Institute of China (MARIC) without direct help from western icebreaking experts. However, there was a Chinese-language article which stated that the design has been partially derived from the Aker Arctic-designed polar research vessel Xue Long 2 commissioned earlier this year.
I did some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations based on the limited technical details available for this design. While it’s theoretically possible to design a non-nuclear-powered 26,000-ton triple-screw* Polar Class 2 icebreaker capable of continuously breaking 3-metre ice** without excessive installed power and/or going to the extreme with the icebreaking hull geometry, you’d have to pull off every trick in the holy book of icebreaker design to make that work and still end up with nearly zero design margins. With no prior experience from icebreaker development, the Chinese designers are accepting quite a big risk for not achieving their design targets…
* while I could only see two azimuthing propulsion units in the published photographs, there has to be a third shaft-driven propeller in the middle, similar to the USCG PSC
** design icebreaking performance stated in the original Chinese-language article
Huawei versus Facebook and Google, which is worse?:
Facebook and google worse as their income model is based on selling your data.
To use a Huawei phone is agreeing they can take all the data off it.
And to use an I-phone means that you are safe from data theft?
BTW:I just bought a Huawei phone, should I worry that someone in China is listening and watching everything I say or do on it?
I don’t think there will be seeing advertisements for everything I may search for, or look at because Huawei don’t sell such info. (Unless I use Google of course)