Thursday, January 13, 2022

Pakistan + Χί ➾ India

23-9-22 75-Yr Conflict India (+USSR) vs Pakistan (+USA) vs Kashmir (+X) - gtbt > .
24-10-27 Pakistan's Oil Discovery Could Impact Global Markets - Caspian > .
24-9-29 India and Xina on verge of teaming up? | ABC Aus > .
24-9-7 [India~Xina Border Disputes: No Direct Flights] - PolyMatters > .
24-5-8 Xina’s Land Grab in Bhutan Threatens India | WSJ > .
24-4-12 India | [Modious's] Dying Democracy? - Prof J K-L > .
23-12-11 India Rising? Xina Reversing? Asian Tigers - gtbt > .
23-10-15 Special Operators - Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) - Waro > .
23-9-30 US vs Xina in Race to Secure Lithium | WSJ > .23-7-15 Why Pakistan's on the Brink of Collapse - T&P > .
Last week, China made two deliveries in India's backyard. The Pakistani Navy received 4 Chinese frigates - while Myanmar's Military Junta acquired a Chinese submarine. Now 3 Indian neighbours have Chinese weapons.

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Russia ➾ 2022

22-12-8 Role of oligarchy in Russia | Pootinesque Corruption (subs) - MK > .22-10-1 America's Missile Defense Problem - Poly > .
22-2-24 Global Power Rivalry | Michael Buckley > .
22-2-22 Ruscia Orders Troops Into Eastern Ukraine: What’s Next? | WSJ > .
22-2-22 Sanctions being imposed on Ruscia over Ukraine - BBC > .
22-3-7 Lessons from Ukraine | George Friedman - geopop > .
22-2-4 Ruscia's Military - Weaponry, Equipment, Power - CoCa > .
22-2-11 Why Is it Not in Ruscia's Interest to Invade Ukraine? - VisPol > .
22-2-7 What Ruscia (Pootin) wants from Ukraine - VisPol > .
22-1-2 Economy of Ruscia (Better than you thought) - Learn Economics > .21-7-7 Economy of Ruscia - The world's breadbasket? - Economics in Action > .
21-12-30 What's Next for U.S. and Ruscia as Tensions Grow Over Ukraine | WSJ > .
22-1-21 Pootin Invading Ukraine? - Conditions for Success - CoCa > .

Russia ⇔ Χίna 2022

22-4-21 Russia–Ukraine war, US–Xina rivalry, Thucydides’s Trap > .
22-4-11 Dr. John Lee | Rising Tensions With Xina - John Anderson > .
22-4-7 Χίna isn't overtly supporting PoooTin in Ukraine - VisPol > .
22-3-28 Conversation with Australian Senator the Hon Penny Wong - CSIS > .
22-3-22 That’s What Xi (Jinping) Said | Hoover (full) > .
22-3-18 Putin & Xi: Will Xina double down on Russia? | DW > .
22-3-16 XXP Rhetoric, Conspiracy Theories, Russian DISinformation | Digging > .
22-2-24 Global Power Rivalry | Michael Buckley > .
22-2-7 NATO's Ukraine Mistake | John Mearsheimer > .


Mystery of alleged 22-2-23 Xinese hack on eve of Ukraine invasion . 

The Times first reported that hackersalleged to be based in China, began targeting Ukrainian websites on 23 February, the day before the invasion. That [suggests] they had advance notice of Moscow's plans and if their intention was somehow to support Russia.

A broad set of Ukrainian government and commercial organisations were said to have been targeted by hackers, including organisations linked to nuclear power. It is unclear how far this activity was scanning for vulnerabilities online and how many websites were actually compromised. The aim looks to have been espionage - stealing secrets - rather than the kind of sabotage operations which Russia was accused of carrying out just before the invasion, and when it started.

22-2-2 Against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first post-pandemic visit to Xina is of major significance. Sino-Russian relations have flourished in recent years, with Putin and Xinese leader Xi Jinping presiding over a rapid expansion of military, economic, financial, and technological ties.

— Will the escalation of the war in Ukraine drive Beijing and Moscow even closer together? — Is Beijing prepared to provide financial assistance to Moscow and to expand cooperation in the energy realm that might help the Russian economy withstand the pain of Western sanctions? 
— Would such cooperation further tilt the balance in Beijing’s favor, given the increasingly asymmetrical nature of the Sino-Russian relationship?

00:00:00 Xi Jinping
00:02:35 Cold war 2
00:04:00 Technology Wars
00:04:35 Iron Curtain
00:06:00 Nuclear Weapons
00:08:00 China will Never Westernize
00:10:35 Decoupling US/China Economy

Sunday, January 9, 2022

Tech Ċold Ŵar 2 ➾ Geoeconomics

χ China's Race for AI Supremacy - Bloomberg > .
24-10-25 [Huawei's Defiant Purchase of TSMC AI Chips] - Update > . 
24-6-20 Hazardous Life of an Undersea Cable - Asianometry > .
24-6-3 [X's industrial policy, systemic weakness impair innovation] - Update > .
24-4-15 AI Deception: How Tech Companies Are [Scamming Investors] - ColdF > .
23-9-13 Huawei's 7nm Chip Isn't Big Chinese Breakthrough || Peter Zeihan > .
23-9-12 China's 7nm Semiconductor Breakthrough - Asianometry > .
23-8-18 AI Origins to Catastrophism vs Optimism - gtbt > .23-5-26 War for Computing Power Is In Full Swing - gtbt > .23-3-2 Xina Leads US in Key Technology Research: Report | Focus > .23-1-23 Xina’s Two-Year Tech Crackdown Winds Up | WSJ > .22-10-14 US-China: Tech | Semiconductors - Update > .22-10-12 Biden Bans Xina's Access to Advanced Semiconductors | Zeihan - now > .
22-9-21 Western scholars debate decoupling; Xi plots tech dominance - Digging > .
22-8-30 How ASML, TSMC And Intel Dominate The Chip Market | CNBC > .
Climate & Decoupling 
Industrial Theft 
Internet Cables 
Chips, FABs, Infrastructure - Means >> .R&D&M Wars - Tense >> .
Tech Competition - Tense >> .

2022 ..Energy ➾ 2022 ..

22-8-9 The CHIPS and Science Act (or Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act), also known as simply the CHIPS Act, is a U.S. federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 9, 2022. The act provides billions of dollars in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States.

Tech Theft ➾ Ċold Ŵar 2, 2022

22-1-28 F-35 just fell off a carrier, near China. Who’ll reach it first? - Binkov > .
23-10-14 [Independent Taiwan versus Imperialist Dicktatorship] - Real > . 
23-9-21 A Xinese blockade against Taiwan 'won't work' | Tim Cross > .
23-8-29 Understanding the Limits of Innovation || Peter Zeihan >> .
23-8-10 How Taiwan Accidentally Became an Economic Superpower - Casual > .
23-6-20 NVGs vs PLA - US Night Superiority, Can Xina [steal & copy]? - T&P > .
23-1-23 Xina’s Two-Year Tech Crackdown Winds Up | WSJ > .
22-11-19 G20 '22 Biden-Xi meeting = "start of a new Cold War" - Times > .
22-11-11 Fortress Xina - Xi's Plans for World Domination - laowhy86 > .
22-10-15 Xina's Economy is in Bad Shape - ColdFusion > .
22-10-9 "Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise" | Susan Shirk - CU > .
22-9-21 Western scholars debate decoupling; Xi plots tech dominance - Digging > .
22-8-3 Economic Disaster is Already Here - Peter Zeihan - Triggernometry > .
22-4-21 Russia–Ukraine war, US–China rivalry, Thucydides’s Trap > .
22-3-5 No. China won't get its hand on the sunken F-35C! - Defense > .
22-1-29 Race is on to reach sunken US plane... before China - BBC > .


sī vīs pācem, parā bellum

igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum    therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...