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China has launched its first aircraft-engine manufacturer in an attempt to wean itself off Western suppliers.
The state-owned Aero-Engine Group of China was created by combining a group of existing aircraft-engine companies, according to local media reports.
It has about 50bn yuan ($7.5bn) in registered capital and will develop both military and commercial engines.
China already makes its own planes, but has struggled for decades to develop engines that meet global requirements.
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F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway:
"Ernest, the rich are different from us."
Hemingway:
"Yes. They have more money."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @08:25PM
Many thanks greedy American businessmen and your whores in congress for funding our country and helping us become the next world super power. Now kindly, step the fuck down and we'll take it from here.
-Love China
Trump 2016. Hillary 2016. Doesn't matter. We've let our top 1% sell us down the river. Now its time to accept our downward spiral and be happy playing second fiddle to the mighty Dragon. And you know what? Good. Let them play "Team China, World Porees" for once. They have an army that can bulldoze the middle east if they wanted to. Hopefully, we'll settle into a mediocre post superpower economy with slow growth like post war Europe. And we'll still be just as addicted to Chinese goods. And once it becomes too expensive to manufacture goods in china, India will become the next China, for China. They can simply build a railroad right into that dump to haul cheap goods.
Yay America.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bob_super on Monday August 29 2016, @08:55PM
The main difference lies in a simple fact:
The 319 million Americans are told all their life that there is no better place to live in the whole world. Some do move out, but have to keep arguing about lower healthcare costs, better weather, or other silly quality of life things...
The 1357 million Chinese people (according to google, not just to match my ID) can be sent all over the world to directly control and work in the various offshoots of the Chinese Empire, rather than just trust the locals to remain dumb, as the white idiots did. The Chinese always play the long game, because their Almighty Stability would be threatened if they allowed themselves the kind of short-term profit schizophrenia that the US somehow mastered.
Despite the human capital, I don't know if India will ever put together the kind of infrastructure that is required to be the next China. Might happen, but I don't see it given the current situation. The Chinese will encourage African countries (secured by Chinese, for the Chinese workers) and likely bypass India's turn... just MHO.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by GungnirSniper on Monday August 29 2016, @10:21PM
Funny isn't it how fascist China, authoritarian Russia, and even dictatorships of many degrees are focused on the long game which emphasizes stability and cohesion over unrestrained capitalism's rampant rusting away.
On a barely related note, with the upset over a benched football player not standing for an anthem, perhaps we should take a closer look at the idea that American soldiers who died in Iraq "died for our freedom" and somehow that our rights "are afforded to us" by a flag. Saddam was never going to put even a single soldier on our soil, and treating our flag like a symbol of worship is obscene.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Monday August 29 2016, @10:58PM
Emphasis mine. The flag as a symbol of worship is nothing more than the establishment of another religion. The flag her cross, the dirt her eucharist. Personally I like the USA. Born here. But the blind, flag waving patriots and the vitriol they spew against people who protest such nonsensical worship is nauseating. And these are usually the same people who scream bloody murder about any perceived threat to the second amendment. Yet they completely forgot the first.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Monday August 29 2016, @11:09PM
Uhhh... I dunno where you get your stats mate. I know a lot of migrant Chinese here in Oz and a lot of them don't give a flying fuck about the Chinese regime - their kids who are born and growing up here, even less so.
There's hot pot of different migrant cultures here in Oz and the new generation Chinese assimilate into the Modern world culture much better than some.
Sure, given the sheer number of them, as you quoted, there are probably a small portion that are patriotic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @03:49AM
1) Many of them are from an earlier diaspora (their ancestors left China and went to South East Asia and other places), or they are from Hong Kong (which was under the British, so their love and loyalty for the Communist regime is not quite as strong ;) ).
2) Many of them working as labourers in Africa (as per the OP) are prisoners, they have little choice: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jul/29/china-export-convict-labour [theguardian.com]
3) Many of them if from China are from a different class - the urban ones: http://projectpartner.org/poverty/hukou-system-explained-chinas-internal-passport/ [projectpartner.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @03:55AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 31 2016, @03:19AM
Perhaps it's time to choose a side.
Are Chinese all beholden to the party and all the Chinese living overseas a party plot to control the world. In which case Chinese all support the party and it cant be all bad.
Or the Chinese are leaving the party to start a better life some place else.
You can't keep trying to claim both...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 30 2016, @04:17AM
Careful man... They're sleepers... from the WelHung Dynasty... and just like Dennis Rodman, they're fouling the white man's woman so the next generation will have big dicks 'n stuff.