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To: Gemlaoshi who wrote (139233)	2/12/2018 5:57:25 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217540

The one oddity of post-WW-II imperialism was the creation of Singapore as a modern and odd little city-state, tended to by one of grandfather's cousins, Leonard Rist from World Bank, and Lee Kuan Yew. It was supposed to be a 'model', an example to nations in the region of what they could become if they chose the western model of development. I think it succeeded because it was too small to attract the interest of anyone other than Rist, for whom it was a life-long hobby like others might have with model trains or a garden.

To: Gemlaoshi who wrote (139233)	2/12/2018 6:14:09 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217540

you do not detect sarcasm well, apparently and so whenever i note peaceful rise, you should detect a shade of something, but as i always noted in related posts, big countries must behave as big countries, otherwise they would not remain as big countries just a state of is

To: Gemlaoshi who wrote (139233)	2/12/2018 7:16:36 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217540

much of nations do are in response to what other nations do and do not do cases in points (i) why does n.korea devote precious resources to expensive nuke program? - one take would be n.korea is bemnt on aggression, etc, and the script runs from that starting point - another take could be that the n.korean leaders do not want to end up like saddam etc - otoh, s.korea / usa / japan does not wish for replay of 1950-1953 etc etc, and - neither does china, and perhaps russia, etc etc - and so the main actors do whatever they believe they have to do (ii) why does china want to be able to control access to china coast? - history books taught china to do so, etc etc (iii) etc etc. crimea, syria, israel, ... convoluted, complicated, stretches way back in time, but nothing changed since a ways back, and cannot change historical facts, whatever they may be in the case of china peaceful-rise, merely acknowledging china becoming a big country again, and surely shall behave as such, like other big countries but, per natural scale, gets noticed more so than one would in cases of other nations developments, and because china was once 'big' and relatively speaking was once 'bigger still' suppose for a moment the romans are again coming to the fore. would there be a worldwide alarm? vikings? spanish? portuguese? persians? greeks? indians? etc etc, supppse the japanese starts to (re)-build outsized aircraft carrier fleet complete w/ up-to-date first-strike nuke capability? germans? hungarians? etc etc and so explains what infrastructure rollout on some desolate islands making to the pages of NYT and so we must watch the developments in cislunar space, and brief on whatever may be happening in quantum, ai, space exploration, genetics, supercomputing, obor / bri, etc to sense where progression trending on all of the above, one can choose to label it all one way, or spin it another way, and pollute the watch & brief w/ pre-established surmise / premise that would be not helpful, especially for folks who at the outset pronounce 'history does not matter'. history matters a lot, i believe. one very important reason the discussions on the middle east situation, china / tibet / taiwan etc were once banned on this thread and would be again banned should such crop up, is because the history is too convoluted to sort out on open thread devoted to teotwawki / darkest interregnum / financial collapse, and i at one time used a favoured phrase, 'just is' to cut short fruitless dialogue over happenings none can materially action on per free-lunch protocol. this is a macro investment thread, as opposed to political / foreign policy / history thread. nytimes.com

To: Gemlaoshi who wrote (139233)	2/12/2018 7:25:48 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217540

speaking of which (peaceful rise), highlighting cooperative play between china and others, indicating good trending, and let us hope such continues, as opposed to the workouts of n.korea, syria, ukraine, etc etc ft.com China completes prototype dish for mega-telescopeProject is a milestone in country’s emergence as a global science power Don in Oakville February 6, 2018 China's prototype dish will be the world’s largest radio telescope A research institute linked to the Chinese military has manufactured the first prototype dish for what will be the world’s largest radio telescope, with vast fields of antennas picking up radio signals from space in remote regions of South Africa and Australia. The Square Kilometre Array’s 15-metre prototype dish was built by the 54th Research Institute of CETC, a state-owned company that specialises in producing hardware and electronic communications systems for China’s People’s Liberation Army. Once it is finished in the mid 2020s, the SKA will consist of about 200 dishes similar to the Chinese prototype stationed in South Africa and 130,000 much smaller antennas operating at a different radio frequency in Australia. They will provide astronomers with the most powerful instrument yet for tackling unsolved questions about how the first galaxies and stars formed after the Big Bang, while probing the depths of outer space for signs of intelligent life. For China, the project is a milestone in its emergence as a global science power, earning it the prestige of participating in multinational projects. It is one of ten countries collaborating on the SKA. “The SKA is a reflection of Chinese wisdom and the determination of the Chinese government to be engaged in international megascience,” said Huang Wei, a vice-minister at the ministry of science and technology, at an unveiling ceremony this week. “Our Chinese partners are extremely well resourced,” said Mark Harman, SKA dish project manager. “They’ve demonstrated that they have the technology and capability to construct a telescope with the specifications that the SKA requires.” Under president Xi Jinping, China has poured national funding into research and technological innovation. At the same time it has sought to build up its own scientific infrastructure. In 2016 in Guizhou province China completed what will be the world’s most powerful radio telescope until the SKA is finished. Unlike the distributed multi-dish design of the SKA, the Guizhou instrument has a single huge 500-metre dish. The SKA telescope will be funded through a model in which countries pay in accordance with their scientific capacity and desired returns. The more a country pays, the more procurement contracts and research access it gains. China has informally agreed to contribute about 8 per cent of SKA costs, which are projected eventually to run to billions of dollars, but it could raise that proportion. Every member country, regardless of how much it contributes, will own the intellectual property from the SKA’s design and manufacture. Particularly lucrative could be the commercial applications of big data storage and transmission technology being developed to support the telescope. Once fully running, the SKA will require data links with streaming speeds that far exceed anything that exists at present. SKA countries are also bidding to host supercomputing research centres where researchers will be able to access the troves of radio signal data SKA scoops up. The Shanghai Astronomical Observatory and the China Academy of Sciences are negotiating to host one in China. The US dropped out of the SKA Organisation in 2011 and is ineligible to host a centre. The organisation’s base is at Jodrell Bank, Manchester, in the UK. Low labour and shipping costs and a willingness to invest in the manufacturing tool kit ultimately made China the winning contender for producing SKA prototype dishes. They will incorporate components from Italy and Germany as well as China. CETC54 hopes to manufacture many of the telescope’s dishes. “China can just do it more effectively than everyone else,” said Willem Esterhuyse, a SKA satellite engineer. “Any other country would have struggled.”

To: Gemlaoshi who wrote (139233)	2/12/2018 7:28:31 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 217540

otoh, there are at least two ways to take in below development newscientist.com Leaked photos suggest China may now have a hypersonic railgun China’s top gun? @XINFENGCAO By Chris Baraniuk Photos published online yesterday suggest that China may be testing a ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun. If confirmed it would make China the first nation to develop such a superweapon, with potential implications for the power-struggle between China and the US in Asia. A railgun uses electromagnetic force to fire projectiles along electrically charged rails at very high speeds. The US has been developing its own railgun technology over the last 10 years. In tests, prototype weapons shot projectiles at speeds around 7800 kilometres an hour – more than Mach 6 – with a …