Despite NATO criticism of Chinese and Russian collaboration, the two countries have announced that they are engaged in military exercises near the South China Sea

China and Russia announced Friday that they are conducting joint naval exercises in the waters and airspace near Zhanjiang city in the south of China.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    322·
    5 months ago

    Hey, why isn’t the Black Sea fleet represented here?

    They, uh, they don’t need any training right now.

  • Dove9848@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 months ago

    Well that’s not good at all…but I can’t say I’m surprised by this one. 🙄

    • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      5 months ago

      I submit that their efforts to subdivide and subsequently subdue their subjugated subordinates by subtly subsidizing subversives is no substitute for substance and will substantially subtract from their ability to keep their reputations afloat.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Probably sunrise. It makes more sense for him to be flying at night, so he’s available during the day.

      • Stalinwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        That makes sense. You don’t see many photos like this taken at twilight. It’s uncommon enough that it’s distracting to me.

        Edit: *inexplicably was not the right word in that context.

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    116·
    5 months ago

    I have been calling this for roughly 18 months now. I don’t claim to be an expert in this region’s politics, but there’s been a pretty linear narrative there that has a pretty obvious conclusion for about 2 years now…

    The south china seas/Taiwan will be the flashpoint of WWIII.

    I’ve been saying between end of 2024 - start of 2031.

    I’m starting to think “before September”.

    • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      72·
      5 months ago

      Exactly what I was thinking. With the he US growing more unstable every day, while already helping Ukraine and Israel, the timing looks good for China.

      I wouldn’t say “before September” cause China might want to wait until after the 2024 election. But before the end of 2025 for sure.

      • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        5 months ago

        There are a lot of things that are coming together that are making me say this.

        A big one was Xi saying “We will invade Taiwan in 2024” to Biden last Christmas. Here

        TSMC manufactures the semiconductors that are used in the GPU production for all of these incredibly expensive AI processing supercomputers that are being built by all of the big tech companies. I.e. AMD, Intel, nVidia, Apple, and everyone else all rely on TSMC. And Google, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, OpenAI, etc all rely on those guys.

        The US has purposely strategically closed down tech manufacturing facilities in China over the last 3 years.

        The US has pretty recently forbidden companies from allowing China to purchase these high-end products, which again we cannot produce without Taiwan. And China believes Taiwan is theirs.

        Then there’s the China One reunification policy, xi has promised China that he will reunify all of China, which includes Taiwan to him, by 2030. It would make him very weak to the public to not at least try by the end of 2031.

        THEN just look at any of the ridiculous stories that have come out of the South China Sea in the last year.

        Here’s a few:

        1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (my favorite).

        And then there’s the investment’s the Biden admin has made in bringing semiconductor manufacturing home. Billions and billions of dollars to companies like IBM, Intel, just so we can not crumble if we lose our line to TSMC when China goes for it.

        And now seeing China teaming up with Russia, who was just busying up with Modi (Indian Pres)… It looks like a clear set of sides for WWIII is being established. It’s clear where the most strategic strike would be, to me.

        https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2024-05/news/japan-us-strengthen-alliance-expand-defense-cooperation

        We’re pulling out all the stops. It’s just not the center focus of the media with everything is Ukraine and Gaza.

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    193·
    5 months ago

    Russia needs lessons in how to bully fishermen. They’ve already got “pretending a place belongs to you” in a bag, so there’s nothing else China can teach them.

    Edit: lmao stay mad, tankies.