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In other words if you get sick in China you should go see a veterinarian, not a doctor.
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I've told this story before but I'll tell it again. I had part of my intestines removed years back and now need vitamin B12 injections every few months. When I first got here no one would sell me a syringe so I went to a hospital to get them to do my injection for me. I got sent to see the gynecologist (I'm male) who didn't know what vitamins are.
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Haier posted:I also realized something about the Chinese healthcare system... Meanwhile my nong grandfather in law is getting actual western-style chemotherapy for his lung cancer. (He started smoking around the Great Leap Forward because his attitude after that was "gently caress everything")
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Oh, and the room the gynecologist was in had a woman with her legs wide open on the bed and people were just wandering in and out, with some old ladies standing there staring.
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big time bisexual posted:i wonder what would happen if she had to get an iv drip the person limply holding her inner arm is her husband/boyfriend, they are wearing hideous matching clothes.
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Anyone have any idea what the real deal is with China hiring the company formerly known as blackwater? I thought they were doing just fine handling their Uighur massacring in house.
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Erik Prince was mad that the US Government wouldn't hire him to be an adventurer anymore, so he made a company that runs support and security services for the Chinese in the "fun" parts of Africa. IIRC, at least one former US military officer who signed onto he board resigned in disgust when he realized the company he had just joined was taking money from the Chinese foreign intelligence service to help them empire build in Africa.
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TsarZiedonis posted:Erik Prince was mad that the US Government wouldn't hire him to be an adventurer anymore, so he made a company that runs support and security services for the Chinese in the "fun" parts of Africa. It's more than that. He wanted to build a private airforce. A long but insane read. https://static.theintercept.com/amp/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-drive-to-build-private-air-force.html
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It's also a hilarious waste of money for countries like China to build aircraft carriers because the USA, Japan, France, and the UK are the only major powers in a geographic position where they'd be useful. Chinese carriers would be boxed into the first island chain with the rest of the PLAN and at that point you might as well just launch from land. Countries like Russia and China spend billions of dollars on loving nothing just so that they can say they have a carrier
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And now that China's carrier and coming carrier have been outed as useless pieces of poo poo they're going to throw even more money down the hole trying to build one that looks like it has EMALS just like the Gerald Ford class
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You can get EMALS on your phone now. You don't need a fukkin aircraft carrier lmao.
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Please tell me the Brazilian carrier is crewed entirely by favela kids in flip-flops
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webmeister posted:Please tell me the Brazilian carrier is crewed entirely by favela kids in flip-flops It's being decommissioned. Which also means Argentina's carrierless naval air arm will need to find a new training space. Falklands War 2 is gonna be hilarious.
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P-Mack posted:It's being decommissioned. Aww. I guess that would make the Brazilians .. airless 
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China used to have an aircraft carrier they bought from Russia or Belarus called the Minsk, it was an amusement park/museum in Shenzhen and was really badass. Most of the stuff in the control room was picked clean but I managed to snag a piece of wire from the communications room as a souvenir.
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 Just got this on my FB feed. Those benefits sound like a pretty sweet deal. And look at the beautiful scenery!
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Also, if your carrier isn't CATOBAR, then it's a stupid/useless piece of poo poo. France and the US are the only ones that have that now that Brazil has decommissioned theirs. If you don't have CATOBAR, then every mission either is extremely limited in range/useful payload, or you have to use land-based air refuelling assets to not remake operation "Black Buck" every time you take off.
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I'm actually kind of shocked at Italy has two. That is not the country that comes to mind when I think of advanced mechanical/computer systems.
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Devils Affricate posted:
EF in China isn't a bad deal if you're looking for something completely different or have no idea what you want to do in life. they take care of you and the schedule isn't too demanding. there's a few negatives but really not that many. my best friend in china for a few years was a guy from liverpool who had just gotten a divorce and was super angry and pissed off and was like "gently caress everything" and he saw an ad like this and moved to china and now he has a good job in shanghai and is dating a cute american girl, so i'd say it worked out well for him
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bongwizzard posted:I'm actually kind of shocked at Italy has two. That is not the country that comes to mind when I think of advanced mechanical/computer systems. They're did a shitload of strikes from them with Harriers during OEF, and but that's pretty much "best case scenario" for Harrier Operations, since their bows were almost touching land for most of them.
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To be fair--and let me just fix my Tom Clancy memorial baseball cap firmly in place here--China needs all the help it can get when it comes to power projection. The carriers are a part of that strategy that (and these two things are definitely going to be important internally as well as externally) lets them join the international Big Kids Club of carrier-havers, and lets the PLAN play a bigger role in both national prestige and in actually being part of defense plans. All those years of being the redheaded stepchild of the Chinese military are over, baby! China's building a real navy! And in actual military terms, China is using multiple strategies here to solve a very simple problem: most of the PLAAF doesn't have the range to fight in the places China at least wants to be able to fight. The older designs (advanced modernizations of '60s Russian fighters, if you care) don't have the range to reach Taiwan, fight, and come back, let alone fly around the SCS. Their newer fighters have more range, so they're building more of those. They're building airfields in the middle of the ocean so their planes have new bases. They're building aerial refueling tankers, which they haven't had very many of until now, to extend the range of their missions. And yeah, they're building carriers, so they'll be able to send a carrier battle group to patrol or reinforce an area. And a lot of this is important for them to do now because right now they don't have a lot of people who actually know what they're doing with this stuff, and there's no substitute for hands-on training and experience. And the USN sure isn't going to help them learn. Incidentally, in other Asia navy news: Taiwan has announced it's going to build 8 new submarines of an indigenous design.
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If a Tibetan made this argument about any one of the many elements of Tibetan culture and religion China still bans, they would be instantly convicted of separatism and tortured to death before any of us could hear about it.
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Electro-Boogie Jack posted:If a Tibetan made this argument about any one of the many elements of Tibetan culture and religion China still bans, they would be instantly convicted of separatism and tortured to death before any of us could hear about it. Please respect the sovereignty of China's affairs.
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Pirate Radar posted:Incidentally, in other Asia navy news: Taiwan has announced it's going to build 8 new submarines of an indigenous design. Looking forward to seeing the maiden voyage of ROCS Tai Ke
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Pirate Radar posted:And in actual military terms, China is using multiple strategies here to solve a very simple problem: most of the PLAAF doesn't have the range to fight in the places China at least wants to be able to fight. The older designs (advanced modernizations of '60s Russian fighters, if you care) don't have the range to reach Taiwan, fight, and come back, let alone fly around the SCS. Their newer fighters have more range, so they're building more of those. They're building airfields in the middle of the ocean so their planes have new bases. They're building aerial refueling tankers, which they haven't had very many of until now, to extend the range of their missions. And yeah, they're building carriers, so they'll be able to send a carrier battle group to patrol or reinforce an area. This needs to be spoken of in relative terms because when people hear phrases like "The PLAN/PLAAF increasing its operating range" they often think of US tier operating range which China is never going to possess. In this case "increased range" means "they can reach islands literally off their coast and they couldn't before"
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Fojar38 posted:This needs to be spoken of in relative terms because when people hear phrases like "The PLAN/PLAAF increasing its operating range" they often think of US tier operating range which China is never going to possess. In this case "increased range" means "they can reach islands literally off their coast and they couldn't before" Yeah, I should have said: this is all still in the context of being able to operate even a few hundred kilometers away from the mainland
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Fojar38 posted:This needs to be spoken of in relative terms because when people hear phrases like "The PLAN/PLAAF increasing its operating range" they often think of US tier operating range which China is never going to possess. In this case "increased range" means "they can reach islands literally off their coast and they couldn't before" Pretty much this. Their ski-jump carriers are not going to be allowing them to project power on distant shores or dominate Korean/Japanese airspace. China's "static aircraft carriers" (strips on reclaimed land) are going to be the main focus of their air sovereignty in the SCS. Not necessarily because they can operate aircraft from them, but because they have (or will soon have) long-range SAM sites located on them. Chinese Naval airpower really only intimidates countries like Vietnam/The Philippines who have nothing to send up to meet the PLAN aircraft. Everyone else who might operate in the area (Korea/Japan/USN/USAF) are really only worried about the SAMS they have. China's carrier air wings are for the foreseeable future "made for internal consumption", in that they are to impress their citizens and slowly build up a knowledge base that they have little of and the US has had since the 1930's (mainly how to operate aircraft at sea). Right now I think their longest-range and best missile is the HQ-9 (similar to the S-300) which can reach out to approx 200km. If they have a decent enough ring of islands that have these mounted, they can effectively control the air in the SCS. Then again, this is all assuming that Uncle Xi is willing to outright say, "we totally own this now, anyone who enters is going to be shot" and willing to back it up. The problem with having these systems mounted on static islands is that they're really easy to hit with cruise missiles since they can't really evade. Personally, I don't think that China is ready (or willing) to take a step beyond what they are currently doing (which is basically mild harassment) when it comes to foreign civilian and military aircraft.
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Is it reverse racist when Koreans see me on the street and pull open their eyes wide while pointing?
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Pirate Radar posted:To be fair--and let me just fix my Tom Clancy memorial baseball cap firmly in place here--China needs all the help it can get when it comes to power projection. The carriers are a part of that strategy that (and these two things are definitely going to be important internally as well as externally) lets them join the international Big Kids Club of carrier-havers, and lets the PLAN play a bigger role in both national prestige and in actually being part of defense plans. All those years of being the redheaded stepchild of the Chinese military are over, baby! China's building a real navy! I remember reading something years ago about how one of China's aircraft carrier problems was that the US has literally generations of carrier pilots and have been able to do a really good job with training, but China has to start from scratch, or trying to learn from the Russians.
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Fauxtool posted:Is it reverse racist when Koreans see me on the street and pull open their eyes wide while pointing?
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The Great Autismo! posted:it depends on the power dynamics at play. if you're a minority in Korea then it is just ftfy
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hakimashou posted:I remember reading something years ago about how one of China's aircraft carrier problems was that the US has literally generations of carrier pilots and have been able to do a really good job with training, but China has to start from scratch, or trying to learn from the Russians. Yeah, that's one of the effects (and probably a reason) of America being at war basically nonstop for 70 years. We have generations of war-tested experience at the helm of every major detachment, all of whom were trained by people with decades of war-tested experience. I can't confirm this, but I remember reading somewhere that Japan actually has a really good navy too because they're one of the only countries who consistently does war-drills with the American fleets.
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hakimashou posted:I remember reading something years ago about how one of China's aircraft carrier problems was that the US has literally generations of carrier pilots and have been able to do a really good job with training, but China has to start from scratch, or trying to learn from the Russians. Yeah, though this is true about literally everything to do with any military. It's one thing to have people who know what they're doing on paper and another to have people who have done it. China is starting to expand its capabilities, and part of that is going to mean a lot of training exercises on sailing in a battle group, flying aircraft off carriers, refueling aircraft in flight, etc etc. Expect to read lots of stories about PLAN training exercises in the SCS.
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bongwizzard posted:I'm actually kind of shocked at Italy has two. That is not the country that comes to mind when I think of advanced mechanical/computer systems. It should though. It might have a corrupt revolving door clown car of idiot politicians but (northern) Italy is one of the world's great high end manufacturing and design power houses.
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