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As someone who followed the various published Western assessments of Soviet Military Power avidly throughout the Cold War I am all too aware of the risks in such evaluation. As various Chinese capabilities are asserted regularly in a range of threads I think it would be timely to discuss the...

https://www.defensenews.com/unmanned/2021/09/03/italian-police-raid-drone-maker-over-alleged-chinese-takeover/ TLDR: Alpi Aviation, manufacturer of the Strix, which is used by Italian SF, was bought for an inflated price in 2018, by a Hong Kong based front company for two Chinese state owned...

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/china-erases-billionaire-actress-zhao-wei-from-history/news-story/94100f6569377078cfeee411f5fc3538

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Tpxm4wITvPpUoMRo0DOzAg With five small wheels

For the 1960s/1970s fighter project, see here. https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/planaf-j-11bh-fighter-seen-using-potentially-new-ecm-pod

https://navalpost.com/china-type-052d-destroyer-suzhou-132/ From back in March, via the Wikipedia entry on the Type 052D family: https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/more-stretched-type-052d-destroyers-join-the-pla-navy...

From; Авиаколлекция 2010 № 8. Штурмовик Q-5 (A-5)

What if the Sino-Soviet split did not occur? Basically there were ideological differences between Mao and Khruschev, which led to the split. Lets say in this scenario, both sides were a bit more flexible about the interpretation of Communism and agreed to some how respect each others...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/china-nuclear-reactor-leak-us-monitoring/index.html https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/558253-company-warns-of-imminent-radiological-threat-from-leak-at-chinese

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57356140

Makes sense to move this into its own thread. This is a thread about the free-flying telescope module. View: https://mobile.twitter.com/dr_guangtou/status/1384547267999322113 View: https://mobile.twitter.com/dr_guangtou/status/1384547272264925188 View...

The growth of the Soviet Navy was symbolised by Admiral Gorshkov and a global maritime exercise (Okean 70). I was wondering if any clue was emerging to Chinese naval doctrine?

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https://spacenews.com/china-is-aiming-to-attract-partners-for-an-international-lunar-research-station/ https://spacenews.com/russia-china-to-sign-agreement-on-international-lunar-research-station/

Now it has reached Mars orbit it might as well have its own thread. View: https://twitter.com/PRCMarsRover/status/1358403478284947459 View: https://twitter.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1359490712786460673

Surprised that this wasn't being discussed or have its own thread but it regards militarization, icebreaker projects, living in cold conditions, transporting fuel, possibly another area of conflict later. Examples of starting off thread to get the general idea...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCsRkHlECQQ

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXRtNwUju5g https://e360.yale.edu/features/piling-up-how-chinas-ban-on-importing-waste-has-stalled-global-recycling

Hi, look at this nice multipurpose vehicle project from China. https://sinorecords.org/shangdengno1/ Regards

Rumoured since some time but confirmed only know View: https://twitter.com/RupprechtDeino/status/1317346711682093056 View: https://twitter.com/OedoSoldier/status/1317316788594438144