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Brief update - End of my Vacation.

congjing yu@laoban4site
705 Posts
#1 · February 25, 2026, 4:45 am

As I end my vacation, I must put on my "big boy" pants...

Tucker Reveals “Supra Government” That Actually Runs The Country!

This is as astounding!

Why doesn't India solve border issues with China and become good friends?

That sounds like an extremely naive idea

India and China have a significantly large power assymetry/imbalance of power

This means China holds plenty more cards than India and seen as being stronger than India in several aspects

Where there is power assymetry, there cannot be friendship or unlimited trust

The best outcome one can hope for is a ‘No Conflict, State of Caution' where mutual development remains unaffected

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Question : How is there an imbalance between India and China

The Imbalance between India and China is substantiated everywhere and requires no exclusive source

India remains

  1. A Fifth the size of China in Economic Size
  2. A Twelfth the size of China in contribution to Global manufacturing
  3. A Ninth the size of China in terms of logistics and cargo
  4. A Fourth the size of China in gross foreign reserves
  5. A Fiftieth the size of China in net foreign reserves
  6. Additionally Technological capabilities, Industrial depth, High Quality St Talent, Manufacturing depth, Productivity are all areas where China has a lead that cannot be quantified on paper but is universally regarded as being more than substantial

Such an imbalance means China is capable of absorbing cost of war for several years while India might be unable to handle economic or military shocks beyond a year tops

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Question : Why can India be more comfortable with the States than with China despite stronger power assymetry?

There is a safe distance between India and the States with no conflict overlap

The States is too far away and there are no conflicts - Boundary, Ideological or otherwise

Indians of five generations have grown up seeing the States as a Great Power & have enmeshed their finance systems, technology systems completely to the ones run by the States

The Political establishment in India has accepted the possible humiliation & heavy handedness by the States , as part of a price to pay for a ‘Close relationship with the States'

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Question : Why can't India develop a similar relationship with China?

India can and India will

It would take time

Presently Indians of four generations have seen China as a counterpart of India, a poor country with a similar colonial background

It might take another 2 generations to acknowledge China differently at which stage, India would redefine the relationship

Singapore and Malaysia is an apt example

Malaysia continued to regard Singapore as a peer well into the 1990s and middle 2000s but by the 2010s began seeing Singapore as a far more prosperous technologically evolved country

The term is known as ‘Generational Familiarity’

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Until such time - the best relationship possible would be one of

  1. Mutual Economic Cooperation
  2. Mutual co existence
  3. Low conflict
  4. Low interference in others affairs

My daughter died one month earlier...

Our reality can be strange.

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What is the best electronic warfare aircraft?

Electronic Warfare (EW) comes in a couple of varieties, electronic surveillance (ES) and electronic attack (EA).

When it comes to ES, there are a multitude of aircraft that perform this role. As a Navy guy, I’ll give the example of our premier platform, the P-8 Poseidon:

Take a close look at it. All it is is a Boeing 737 but there are a bunch of “appendages” sticking out. I truly have no idea what all of those antennas are for, nor would I tell you here on Quora if I did. The P-8 is first and foremost a sub hunter but there are varieties that can be outfitted with gear for ES. One of its predecessors, an EP-3, was involved in an international incident back in the early aughts with China. This was the infamous “spy plane brought down by the Chinese” incident. I have my feelings on what the mission commander did, but I’ll leave that for another time.

Now EA! That’s my bread and butter.

EA-18G Growler

It is so hard to accurately describe what we do. Big picture, we jam RADARs but what does “jam” actually mean? The tactics aren’t the same for every RADAR so it’s really a catch all term for what we do. Again, going big picture, I’ve co-opted the term stealth: we provide stealth to non-stealthy aircraft. IOW, we hide them by making a RADAR scope unusable. And we have a perfect record; no plane has ever been shot down by a SAM if they have Prowler/Growler support.

An F-16CJ has what they call a HARM Targeting System, HTS. These guys go out and intentionally get targeted so they can shoot a much faster HARM at the shooter. I love me some CJ action. But a Growler is the preeminent platform for EA. Not only can I jam a target and get a soft kill, but my systems are even better at locating a threat so we can opt for the hard kill. Even better, the HARM is a bygone relic at this point. Now we’re talking AARGM. I can’t over emphasize how much better it is compared to a HARM. In the Navy, we considered a HARM a soft kill weapon because it wasn’t terribly accurate and you couldn’t count on it hitting the target (we are VERY conservative in our estimates). AARGM is not just an upgrade to HARM. It’s a whole different beast and is truly amazing, no bias whatsoever on my part.

To sum up, electronic warfare is extremely complicated and extremely complicated to explain. One platform may be better at a specific task, but there are others that are better at something else. Whatever task you’re trying to accomplish, go Navy. We don’t f around and will dismantle your IADS (Integrated Air Defense Systems) with just a couple of aircraft.

Go ahead. Target one of my buddies. Light them up, just like we want you to do. Now run! My missile is faster than yours and has an energy advantage. Your site is about to blow up. Sayonara.

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Col Douglas Macgregor DESTROYS Smug Indian Journalist on China & US Military Dependency

I was afraid to watch this, but it is really pretty good.

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