for reference btw: japanese pharmacopoeia/standards just have a bunch of outdated stuff in it because its so conservative i suspect (not limited to Japan, last time i was in china i got prescribed something that's almost never used in the us)
I don't get why China wants aircraft carriers. Strategically aircraft carriers are mainly good for projecting power far away from your country. They're basically mobile military bases. They'd be useful if China thinks it's going to attack California or intervene in Africa. But for Taiwan, Japan, etc they could just use their own territory. Aircraft carries, unlike islands, can sink so they'd be a vulnerability in that conflict. They also can't keep them resupplied far away from China because they don't have America's alliance network. Their aircraft carriers also can't really beat American aircraft carriers because aircraft carriers are primarily delivery mechanisms for aircraft and their aircraft are still worse. (And their designs, which are Soviet, are worse too. Their engines have a tendency to catch on fire.)
The two ways I can make sense of it are:
1. China doesn't think it's going to war with the US anytime soon and expects there's going to be a long period where they want to intervene abroad. The fact they wouldn't be very useful in a conflict with the US is irrelevant if they don't think that's going to happen. And they're useful for putting Chinese military assets in Africa, for example, to protect Chinese interests.
2. China just wants whatever the US has. The US has aircraft carriers so superpowers have aircraft carriers and China's a superpower so it has to have aircraft carriers. The more sensible planners got drowned out by the "everything you can do I can do better" crowd.
I don't know for sure, since it's obviously highly classified and all that, but to be fair to China, they have been doing a lot of building and development in Africa. And the main reason nobody invests in Africa is because it's highly unstable. Having aircraft carriers might give their entrepreneurs the kind of confidence it takes to sink a bunch of money into Africa. So option one doesn't seem terribly unlikely to me.
i think its mostly the second with an additional bit that their carrier designs are getting better pretty quickly, but they definitely have international ambitions too
Oh, sorry, that's just a direct romanisation of the drug's name. It has nothing to do with bilitong, the dried beef jerky snack. It seems like it's just a generic flu medicine that's a mix of tylenol and caffeine?
for reference btw: japanese pharmacopoeia/standards just have a bunch of outdated stuff in it because its so conservative i suspect (not limited to Japan, last time i was in china i got prescribed something that's almost never used in the us)
I don't get why China wants aircraft carriers. Strategically aircraft carriers are mainly good for projecting power far away from your country. They're basically mobile military bases. They'd be useful if China thinks it's going to attack California or intervene in Africa. But for Taiwan, Japan, etc they could just use their own territory. Aircraft carries, unlike islands, can sink so they'd be a vulnerability in that conflict. They also can't keep them resupplied far away from China because they don't have America's alliance network. Their aircraft carriers also can't really beat American aircraft carriers because aircraft carriers are primarily delivery mechanisms for aircraft and their aircraft are still worse. (And their designs, which are Soviet, are worse too. Their engines have a tendency to catch on fire.)
The two ways I can make sense of it are:
1. China doesn't think it's going to war with the US anytime soon and expects there's going to be a long period where they want to intervene abroad. The fact they wouldn't be very useful in a conflict with the US is irrelevant if they don't think that's going to happen. And they're useful for putting Chinese military assets in Africa, for example, to protect Chinese interests.
2. China just wants whatever the US has. The US has aircraft carriers so superpowers have aircraft carriers and China's a superpower so it has to have aircraft carriers. The more sensible planners got drowned out by the "everything you can do I can do better" crowd.
I don't know for sure, since it's obviously highly classified and all that, but to be fair to China, they have been doing a lot of building and development in Africa. And the main reason nobody invests in Africa is because it's highly unstable. Having aircraft carriers might give their entrepreneurs the kind of confidence it takes to sink a bunch of money into Africa. So option one doesn't seem terribly unlikely to me.
i think its mostly the second with an additional bit that their carrier designs are getting better pretty quickly, but they definitely have international ambitions too
What’s “Bili Tong” that as food it has both paracetamol and caffeine in it?
Oh, sorry, that's just a direct romanisation of the drug's name. It has nothing to do with bilitong, the dried beef jerky snack. It seems like it's just a generic flu medicine that's a mix of tylenol and caffeine?
Oh right, no that’s definitely a thing 😅 (the caffeine helps with absorption of the paracetamol)