A robot was on fire. Again. It was the summer of 2024, and the cutting-edge robots inside General Dynamics’ sweltering artillery factory near Dallas were catching fire with startling regularity, according to four former workers there. This wasn’t ideal, as the plant was supposed to be churning out urgently needed artillery shells for Ukraine. The robots, giant metal arms with clamps for hands…
… The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics or a key Turkish subcontractor — which provided the factory’s much-hyped but little-proven equipment — publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back.
Just the opposite: General Dynamics, one of the world’s largest defense companies, has been showered with new contracts, continuing its track record as one of the greatest beneficiaries of Pentagon spending. The company is still in charge of the factory. It recently announced that it will fix things there by bringing in another much-hyped but little-proven technology.
Which of the Chinese languages?
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-says-it-will-not-renounce-use-force-over-taiwan-2024-10-16/
Because the reason it isn’t happening soon is Xi’s personal fears
https://thenightly.com.au/politics/xi-jinping-fears-taiwan-invasion-could-cost-him-power-never-raised-aukus-with-australia-says-former-envoy-c-22700238
They prefer to use their size to threaten over initiating wars. Which remains imperialistic.
https://chinapower.csis.org/china-increased-military-activities-indo-pacific-2025/
The rest is on point but I don’t understand your exceptions for China
No direct quotes from anyone in the Chinese government. It’s all just a former ambassador from an English speaking country making speculative statements a hemisphere away.
Incoherent. A country isn’t threatening merely because it is large.
I know you know and you’re in denial
https://thenationweek.com/2026/06/19/chinas-maritime-aggression-bullying-tactics-in-the-south-china-sea/
This isn’t a he-said-she-said
https://www.inquirer.net/412256/pcg-says-ccg-rammed-its-vessel-multiple-times-in-escoda-shoal/#ixzz8kUNfeSvs
https://theconversation.com/china-is-claiming-the-right-to-punish-its-critics-anywhere-on-earth-288175
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-22/china-australia-south-china-sea-philippines-tension/106946822?
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/06/18/france-shuts-down-clandestine-chinese-police-stations-operating-on-its-territory_6754608_7.html
https://www.newsweek.com/for-exposing-chinas-repression-women-are-targeted-with-deepfake-ai-porn-12008699
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/05/24/2003857863
https://apnews.com/article/australia-china-prison-play-cheng-lei-97af789380e58d775ee4fddee46898cb
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/23/business/exit-bans-china-explainer-intl-hnk
https://citizenlab.ca/research/how-chinese-actors-use-impersonation-and-stolen-narratives-to-perpetuate-digital-transnational-repression/
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/aug/04/uk-academics-studying-topics-sensitive-to-china-face-harassment-survey-finds
But you know this and don’t care. You don’t care about the abuse of minorities, violation of other countries’ borders, you don’t care about kidnappings, killings, repression, illegal arrests, sabotage, etc, because it’s done in favor of your tribe.
All it takes is excusing no tribe. But you can’t distance yourself.
You haven’t read a single one of these links.
You certainly haven’t read about
Committed by the Marcos and Duterte governments of The Philippines. Much less the long history of Red Tagging used to justify the pogroms.
“Both Sides!” But always the Evil Foreigners first.
Defending a US backed military junta in the midst of monstrous crimes against humanity, because you’ve been pre-programmed to hate anyone outside your nation’s sphere of influence.
I’m sure you clapped like a seal during the Bloody Sunday killing. Fucking MAGA fascist.
I’ve criticized every government myself, my own (Sweden) and EU and USA and also China et al. You’re just pretending to be better, and you know you can’t justify defending China so you have to lie to claim I’m MAGA without knowing anything about me.
You’re pre-programmed to assume people can’t want to rule themselves and that anything that contradict China’s desire to enforce total cultural uniformity is an evil plot by USA. Bootlicking fucking tankie. You’d applaud everything USA ever did if China claimed it was them who did it. You’d celebrate MK Ultra if China revealed they were doing that in their secret prisons for political prisoners.
When USA uses their aid programs for political pressure you’re outraged and then China does it and you cheer.
https://www.industriall-union.org/curbing-violations-by-chinese-multinationals-in-african-critical-minerals-boom
Also this is a collection of links that I read before
Sure you have. Some slightly louder than others.
When they fund rape gangs and drug cartels and genocidal terror campaigns with those “aid” programs, I wish more people would.
You fucking hypocrite. You’re talking about yourself.
So then why is the shutdown of USAID causing millions of deaths, not preventing them?
But we know what your opinion of that is. You think it’s good that those people die so that their survival won’t make people think USA is good anymore. You enjoy seeing the damage caused by Musk and Trump and co, in just the same way you enjoy seeing China hurt their minorities, because you think they all deserve it.
All because they are part of the wrong tribe. You think they supported American imperialism when they should’ve submitted to Chinese imperialism.
https://afridesk.org/en/chinese-mafia-expands-in-africa/
https://adf-magazine.com/2025/06/chinese-cybercrime-networks-spread-like-a-cancer-into-africa/
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/12/invasive-ai-led-mass-surveillance-in-africa-violating-freedoms-warn-experts
You probably even think it’s good that the Chinese mafia is taking control in many areas. That’s acceptable colonialism, not because it’s good for the people, but because it’s Chinese. They along with Chinese intelligence may be just as bad as CIA, but you think the collateral is worth it, because the right culture or some shit like that is being established. They are making them civilized according to you. Right?