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Corruption in companies is always the bigger issues.
But even here, we see that CHina has SERIOUS issues with QA on building the western plants that they insisted on doing. That was stupid on both of those companies. Oddly, if CHina has issues with those reactors, they will probably blame the western companies, rather than their own lousy workmanship. They should have allowed either the Japanese or South Koreans to do the work.

BTW, as to Fukishima, the company had several choices. Build the wall higher as GE wanted, OR add generators further away from the reactors, and higher on the hill. Either solution would have solved this. BUT, MBA's always get in the way.

Actually, China's master plan calls for 1.7 tw of coal. And as it said, your nation did not cancel to clean up the air or lower emissions. Instead, they did it for lack of growth, specifically, because your nation's economy was tanking in 2015-2016.

You have been told numerous times coal has peaked back in 2013.
Here is the actual plan for China's energy.

Yet it is still noteworthy that policy makers seem to be even more determined to squeeze coal’s share in the country’s energy mix, lowering its 2020 percentage in primary energy consumption from 62 percent to 58 percent, and capping its consumption at 4.1 Gt (which means roughly at 2014 levels).

You are correct Windy, there are other very dirty countries as well, it's not just America. But I'm specifically calling out your cheerleading for America, and your lies about China.

Still waiting for you to point out a single lie of mine Windy...

I'm sure the Vietnamese wold like to hear your thoughts on how American guaranteed their security too!

june 2015: "This week, the United States and Vietnam deepened their defense ties during a three-day trip by U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter to the Southeast Asian state. Most notably, Carter and his counterpart, Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh, inked a Joint Vision Statement on Defense Relations. The statement itself, which comes as both sides celebrate the 20th anniversary of the normalization of their ties, is not wholly new. It builds on a 2011 memorandum of understanding ..."
https://thediplomat.com/2015/0...

Windy does not.
Since 2007, China has loaned more than $50 billion to Venezuela through an oil-for-loans arrangement that helped Caracas reduce reliance on U.S. energy markets. But the flow of funds from Beijing has slowed since 2014, when abundant crude oil led to a crash in oil markets and made China less interested in maintaining its alliance with Venezuela.

China promised Chavez everything to become dependent on them, and move to doing nothing but oil production. China gave Chavez billions but on condition that it all went into oil production that was to be sent to China to pay for the massive debts.
Now, you Chinese act like the tossers you are and insist on money from them or ownership or the resources. Bloody Wankers.

That scenario has been proposed already. I think it is likely, but murphy's law will make sure the sea level rise doesn't happen until after an exhaustive treaty is reached or a blood war is won.

Indians carry their UNCIVILIZED Caste system Overseas.
https://thediplomat.com/2017/1...

Visa, Master and Swift have been abused so badly in pursuit of political goals in US Primaries that people all over the world have lost faith. Case in point - Sanctions against Iran a country which does not promote Wahabbism whil allowing full trae with Saudi. People have realized that depending on American and Western money networks opens you up to financial blackmail whenever American politicians want to do some dog whistling. Russia has created its own payment network and making it difficult for Visa and Master to operate there in order to drive adoption. China most transactions are moving to Baidu's network. India is now using PayTM. As more and more major economies start moving away from western payment systems the West's power to use sanctions as a policy tool will go away. Since money still needs to move between the competing monetary systems cryptocurrencies will become the interface currency

Dodging government to government pressure is probably only a small reason for countries to move away from Visa and Mastercard. A much bigger reason taking 1-2.5% of every consumer transaction. That's a huge incentive for any bank or financial company to build a competing system.

Government sanctions as a policy tool are deeply flawed, but one of the few options to pressure countries without dropping bombs. The reason sanctions are somewhat effective is not because of the power of one country, but only when lots of countries adopt them. It's basically a government-level boycott.

Government sanctions are a flawed method of applying pressure, but cryptocurrencies are not a great workaround. Suppose North Korea gets their hands on a huge pile of bitcoin. Then what? They can't exactly make bitcoin an official currency, that would wreck their internal monetary policy of having artificially inflated exchange rates. It is difficult to cash out in other countries and use legitimate banks to transfer money, because they are sanctioned. The only reliable option left is to cash out in Russia (closed) or China (closed) and launder the money the old fashioned way (for overseas use), or carry it across the border (for internal use). Cryptocurrencies are just one of many difficult and not-foolproof options to try to get around sanctions. They are not a magic sanction-killing bullet.

You joke, but this is what the Chinese are doing. Look at the size of their coast guard and fishery enforcement ships being built. Larger ships can ram smaller ships in the international waters of the East and South China seas, which China claims sovereignty, without resorting to using weapons, which can cause much more serious escalation and international scrutiny. It's a strategy that's working well to slowly change the status quo to Chinese favor, as they slowly extend their control of the maritime domain within the first island chain.

It is extremely unlike that anything in China gets broke.

As far as I know it is the only government that is running since decades with a positive balance.

China as an "industrial social complex" owns half the world in terms of land they buy here and there.

They are probably the biggest owners of land, railroads, mines etc. in Africa.

http://thediplomat.com/2016/08...

Getting money out of China, if you want so, is easy. You simply do a wire transfer to an over seas account. Just like in any other country.

The US Navy has hundreds of ships, of which only a few dozen are aircraft carriers and submarines. Since the submarine power plants tend to be in the 50MW to 150MW range then I'd say any surface ship with a power plant of 50MW or larger should be capable of being nuclear powered.

There's two questions here...."can we" and "should we". Nuclear powered reactors have a use case on aircraft carriers, as they are floating cities with immense power needs. For icebreakers, for power, long deployments, and acting as floating power plants for remote sites. Submarines, for obvious reasons.

Not really seeing it for cruisers, though, for a couple of reasons. First, the cost, which happens to be the Achilles heel of civilian nuclear power. For what it would cost to build and maintain a reactor on a cruiser, you could probably pay to have fuel oil shipped to it anywhere in the world, build enough wind and solar farms to make up for any CO2 burned as fuel, and save a nice chunk of money in the process. So if the purpose is to lower overall emissions, why bother.

Second reason is, the U.S. military hasn't faced anyone that can give it a kick in the teeth, or at least a bloody nose, since it got its imperialistic ass kicked out of Vietnam. If Hillary had won the election and tried to enforce her stupid fly zone over Syria, bomb Iran for the weapons program the CIA and Mossad said Iran didn't have, or take the "Asian Pivot" another step and sink a Chinese vessel, we might have a few sunken Navy vessels on our hands.

Aircraft carriers are kept at a distance and are well-defended. If a nuclear sub is sunk, it probably means it just fired off its nuclear missiles and we have much much greater things to worry about than having a mini-Chernobyl in the Persian Gulf. But if a cruiser is sunk because it was swarmed with enough missiles to overwhelm its defenses - you really want that mini-Chernobyl, or several of them? Countries that have been picked as enemies of the United States aren't going to bother trying to outspend the Pentagon's $1+ trillion annual budget, they're just going to get enough missiles together to sink your ships stalking their coastlines.

What you seem to fail to comprehend is that nothing requires this technology to be used only on ships. It can be done in any location where a nuclear power plant can be located and there is access to water.

Try to "comprehend" the cost and risk arguments above. I'm sure the U.S. base in Okinawa uses a good amount of power - but why not simply buy it from Japan's civilian power infrastructure (even nuclear powered). For reasons based both on cost and risk. Let's say some trigger happy commander in Foal Eagle decides to fire some "warning shots" in the annual practice invasion of North Korea. North Korea, deciding its the real deal this time, decides to defend themselves by firing off some ballistic missiles at said Okinawan base. Mini-Chernobyl, again.

Or....Congress could completely gut every single military program and institution outside of the various Guards: Coast, National and Air. It would be more than enough for this nation's actual defense needs. Having a thousand military bases around the world and special forces deployed to 130+ countries has nothing to do with defense and everything to do with empire.

That's just an anti-military rant which has nothing to do with this matter.

It has everything to do with it. The United States shells out at least $1.2 trillion a year on warmonger spending, more than the rest of the world combined. This is wholly and completely unneeded corporate welfare, in service of an American Empire. Nothing more, nothing less

What's even more curious is that the entire gun system itself may soon be obsolete, as the Navy's eventual plan is to replace it with a railgun:
http://thediplomat.com/2016/03...

Huge amount of group think going on here.

The F-35 May have been made invisible to the EMF spectrum used by radar, but there's far more frequencies that it will show up on.

https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
http://aviationweek.com/techno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I like this one. Clutter can be solved with good software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And this one is gold:

a series of in-field modifications carried out by the Yugoslavs further reduced the frequency of the 1960s vintage P-18 VHF acquisition radar under Dani’s command, which enabled his men to detect Zelko’s F-117 at a distance of 30 to 37 miles (50-60 km).

*In-field modifications* That's bad-ass.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/08...

I see you didn't click any of the links. For starters, the this one clearly explains that these "drive-bys" are not, in any way, shape or form, mutually exclusive with traditional diplomacy. They're a tool for enhancing traditional diplomacy. This link explains the legal nuances of the freedom of navigation operation in much greater detail, and describes the legal and diplomatic needle the operation was threading. Sailing a single destroyer past an island is hardly a flexing of military muscle. Flexing muscle is when you sail an aircraft carrier battle group through the strait of Taiwan. As for the hacking, please note the lede paragraph of this story:

Chinese state-backed hackers have carried out a string of cyber espionage attacks on U.S. companies, violating a pact signed by the two countries to stop carrying out this kind of activity, according to a cybersecurity company.

The two-way street you suggest has already been attempted, and it has sadly resulted in jack diddly. Attempts to bridge these gaps by inviting China to participate in the major US-and-allies annual pacific naval exercises were similarly undermined by the Chinese sending an uninvited spy ship.

You see, there is no lack of diplomatic effort being made regarding American-Chinese relations - but time and again the Chinese have declined to reign in their aggressive efforts to enrich themselves at the cost of others. It is only natural that the United States has been taking measures to re-assert their commitments; (diplomatic, economic, and defense-wise) to their many regional allies in the face of ever-more-bold Chinese demonstrations of military power and diplomatic hardball.

I've read that homosexual relationships between Afghani men and boys are surprisingly common in Afghanistan, although forbidden and not entirely consensual.

Indeed, the practise is called bacha bazi or 'to be with the boy' or 'to have the boy' and it is a form of traditional institutionalised rape and a long term human rights violation that exists in the culture of the warlords and rich of the region. I don't think it is a religious practice.

Maybe this guy was in the category of less than consensual youth participant at some point and is having trouble with the cognitive dissonance of that experience.

None of them consent but it is a very interesting theory as these people are victimized even after they survive, however many die. It wouldn't be surprising if a political organization could achieve that form of manipulation.

We either need to start cleaning up or affixing defensive technology onto satellites.

China does have anti-satellite missiles. If the Japanese telescope got pointed in the wrong direction, they may have mistaken it for a spy satellite and taken it out.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/03/china-secretly-tested-an-anti-satellite-missile/

Though this isn't a modern diesel electric boat. The US know exactly where it is.

Perhaps not...
http://thediplomat.com/2015/12...
This is Chinese but the success of the Chinese makes it obvious
that modest priced diesel electric boats have capabilities worth
exploring. Replace the lead acid batteries of a WW2 U-boat with
modern Tesla class batteries and Tesla class electric motors
and Bob's yer Uncle.
The better class of milling machines and NC machine tools on the open
market should allow building a quieter anything. No need for a
pressure hull like a the Challenger Deep class hull.

(fixed broken link)
No china isn't fascist

USSR was spending 10-40% of their GDP on their military
And if you go through this, Russia outspends America in % of GDP, except when W throw the money away on his wars

But hey, do not let REAL facts get in your way.

Foxconn is a Taiwanese multinational headquartered in New Taipei, Taiwan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn

That's a lot like differentiating between California and the USA. There is a distinction, and it may matter, but overall the one is part of the other.

Your juxtaposition is shit. The feds didn't put as much effort through Jade Helm as China has put into building a mockup of the presidential palace in Taipei and showing the PLA practicing invading it on state television.

http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/satellite-imagery-from-china-suggests-mock-invasion-of-taiwan/

US says ‘no evidence of Russia’s direct involvement’

** Russian provided BUK-M1... then captured BUK from Ukraine army. There is also BUK driver "released" from separatists confirmed that (Where is he now??).

** No Russian involvement, so how separatist could launch the BUK. New theory:
http://touch.latimes.com/#sect...

U.S. intelligence agencies have so far been unable to determine the nationalities or identities of the crew that launched the missile. U.S. officials said it was possible the SA-11 was launched by a defector from the Ukrainian military who was trained to use similar missile systems.

Robert Parry confirmed that: https://consortiumnews.com/201...

2+3. Unverifiable. Also, fake photo, provided by SBU (Ukraine security agency), which claimed BUK no.312 launched missile downed the MH-17, is still in Ukraine service:
http://rt.com/news/174868-ukra...
http://web.archive.org/web/201...
http://www.sbu.gov.ua/sbu/cont...

The last photo was **DELETED** (silently).
The first photo, is interesting too.
This is the first, and **ONLY** photo which captured the smoke-trail of missile, provided by a pro-Kiev "witness", here some analysis from Dutch blogger (he may be hired by Kremlin, but his logic is interesting):
http://7mei.nl/2015/05/18/mh17...

Here some fact:
* This is the **ONLY** photo about smoke-trail, despite several video from locals capture the moment of the planed burning.
* The photo was in BMP, no EXIF data (Bellingcats to "protect" the "witness", yes here have contact with pro-Kiev medias, blogger, too)
* His interviews contradicted themselves.
* Minor detail, the blogger of 7meil.nl wen to the room of "witness", taken a photo as "witness" described, and there is (electric) wires in photo, not like the "original" photo.

4. After the incident, locals, in some videos, cheering because they thought government airplane shot down. May be, the separatists think so, too.

5. Which satellite images!?
IF satellite images provided by Russian Government after the accident, there not claim that is fake (yet).
Meanwhile, the satellite images provided by Ukraine Government, to counter the Russian ones, was analyzed by Russians, that was faked

Russian tanks just have to be better than this https://medium.com/war-is-bori... against Ukraine. Those were bought by money of Ukrainian tax payers. Or wait, WTF http://sputniknews.com/militar... - sold by private Ukrainian company. This another funny one - http://thediplomat.com/2015/03... - basically somebody stole 5 Indian fighter jets, out of 40 that were send to Ukraine for upgrade.

Presidents change every 4 years in Ukraine, but their mission stays basically the same - steal as much as you can, divert attention by some crazy bullshit. I've been to Crimea a few years back, public transport in Simfiropol was from nineteen sixties - in more than 10 years since USSR collapse Ukraine did nothing for Crimea development. Could be that this is the actual cause of separatism? Shoving Ukrainian village dialect and equally funny culture (vishivanka?lapti?) probably also played a part - those people used to be part of a nation that defeated Napoleon, Hitler and launched a man into space, just to name a few, and now they are supposed to be proud of nazi collaborationists and a village style t-shirt? Time to end this circus, give Galicia to Poland, rest join with Russia, move capital and all bunch of bureaucrats to Kiev and name resulting country Kievskaya Russia.Wait, I'll roll one more...

Russia is also fucked up - looks like they are building unique joined cristian - muslim proudly multinational theocratic state, lol. With a touch of idiocraty, offcourse. Our next lecture might be on topic of retards and idiots in all branches of Russian government, and influence of their retarded laws and other acts on a daily life of ordinary citizens, observed from a safe distance.

Probably never heard of the movie eh? It was all over the news back in June.
http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/no-north-korea-did-not-threaten-war-over-seth-rogan-movie/
It doesn't prove anything, but NK's displeasure at the movie has been well known for a long time now.

I find this rather disturbing in light of Russia's Growing Isolation. I'm left to wonder if Russia is 'just being Russia' or if these laws are being passed with the intent of gently nudging companies like Google and Adobe out of the country. Russia's recent actions in Ukraine have left me with a very Hitleresk taste.

This story from 2008 suggests that the citizens support censorship.

This story from a few months ago says most don't believe it is being censored/monitored.

The NSA and GCHQ have always wanted more info on China.

Isn't turnabout is fair play?.

China's Growing Spy Threat

But according to analysts and officials, the communist-controlled People’s Republic of China operates the single largest intelligence-gathering apparatus in the world—and its growing appetite for secrets has apparently become insatiable.

From economic and military espionage to keeping tabs on exiled dissidents, China’s global spying operations are rapidly expanding. And, therefore, so is the threat. Some analysts even argue the regime—which is also gobbling up such key natural resources as farmland, energy, and minerals—has an eye on dominating the world.

Estimates on the number of spies and agents employed by the communist state vary widely. According to public statements by French author and investigative journalist Roger Faligot, who has written several books about the regime’s security services, there are around two million Chinese working directly or indirectly for China’s intelligence apparatus.

Other analysts say it would be impossible to count the exact number. ‘I doubt they know themselves,’ says Richard Fisher, a senior fellow on Asian military affairs at the Washington-based International Assessment and Strategy Center. Regardless, the number is undoubtedly extraordinary. ‘China can rightly claim to have the world’s largest, most amorphous, but also most active intelligence sector,’ he says.

Russia, China engaging in industrial espionage

Germany is full of Russian and Chinese spies working to get information about top business and technology developments, according to the country’s domestic intelligence service.

Studies show that the German economy loses around €50 billion a year as a consequence, Burkhard Even, head of the counterintelligence section of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told the audience at a recent security forum in Bonn. . . .

There are around 80,000 Chinese people living in Germany, Even said, many of whom are commercial spies. China is also buying into, or taking over companies completely, in order to get access to new technological developments. . . . . . the Chinese were mostly active in the electronic sector. Some reports suggest the Chinese intelligence services have up to a million agents across the world collecting technical and business data to support their industries.

"It is estimated that at least 20 Foreign intelligence services are operating to some degree against UK interests. Of greatest concern are the Russians and Chinese. The number of Russian intelligence officers in London has not fallen since the Soviet times."
 

Britain Warned Businesses of Threat of Chinese Spying

Canada a target-rich environment for Chinese spies

Officials say Chinese spies have targeted every sector of the U.S. economy

There's nothing "traditional" about the depth, pervasiveness, or reach of the USG's spying. If it's anything like military spending, the U.S. spends more than the rest of the planet combined.

Maybe you can use this to start bridging your information gap.

Russia, China engaging in industrial espionage

Germany is full of Russian and Chinese spies working to get information about top business and technology developments, according to the country’s domestic intelligence service.

Studies show that the German economy loses around €50 billion a year as a consequence, Burkhard Even, head of the counterintelligence section of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told the audience at a recent security forum in Bonn.

The spying is a mix of official, intelligence service agents, and unofficial business spooks, he said.

Even estimated that of the 500 registered staff of the Russian embassy in Berlin, at least 150 were working as intelligence agents, disguised as diplomats or journalists.

He said that more than four million Russians live in the country as a whole, leaving him unable to guess at how many agents might be hidden amongst them.
 

China's Growing Spy Threat

But according to analysts and officials, the communist-controlled People’s Republic of China operates the single largest intelligence-gathering apparatus in the world—and its growing appetite for secrets has apparently become insatiable.

From economic and military espionage to keeping tabs on exiled dissidents, China’s global spying operations are rapidly expanding. And, therefore, so is the threat. Some analysts even argue the regime—which is also gobbling up such key natural resources as farmland, energy, and minerals—has an eye on dominating the world.

Estimates on the number of spies and agents employed by the communist state vary widely. According to public statements by French author and investigative journalist Roger Faligot, who has written several books about the regime’s security services, there are around two million Chinese working directly or indirectly for China’s intelligence apparatus.

Putin's Secret Weapon

Britain under attack from 20 foreign spy agencies including France and Germany

"It is estimated that at least 20 Foreign intelligence services are operating to some degree against UK interests. Of greatest concern are the Russians and Chinese. The number of Russian intelligence officers in London has not fallen since the Soviet times."

A Whitehall source told The Sunday Telegraph that Russia uses its massive spy network as an "extension of state power" in an attempt to "further its own military and economic base".

The source said: "If a country, such as Russia or Iran, can steal a piece of software which will save it seven years in research and development then it will do so without any hesitation. Russian agents will target anybody that they believe could be useful to them. Spying is hard-wired into the country's DNA. They have been at it for centuries and they are simply not going to stop because the Cold War has ended."

Officials say Chinese spies have targeted every sector of the U.S. economy

Looking more like suicide. Sad whatever it was.

http://thediplomat.com/2014/03...

Channel NewsAsia said that police were called to Cantonment Close just after 7:00 am on February 26. Autumn Radtke, 28, was allegedly discovered lying motionless on a second-floor parapet – indicating the possibility that she jumped from a higher floor (though it is unclear what floor she lived on). Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene and preliminary investigations turned up no evidence of foul play. Toxicology results are expected in the coming days.

I'm assuming you're referring to the US. If I understand you correctly, you either question or don't think there are (or could be?) any foreign spies, or associates or members of terrorist groups running lose in the US?

One recent famous case: How the FBI Busted Anna Chapman and the Russian Spy Ring
FBI Investigating Possible Russian Spy Recruiting In U.S.
After the Cold War, Russian Espionage in the U.S.
Russian spying at cold war levels, say experts

China's Growing Spy Threat
Spy case patterns the Chinese style of espionage

Senator’s memo shows Iran links in Homeland Security’s troubled immigration program

Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism - (From 2004, but the problem remains.)

Smugglers with ties to terrorist groups are acquiring millions of dollars from illegal cigarette sales and funneling the cash to organizations such as al Qaeda and Hezbollah, federal law enforcement officials say, prompting a nationwide crackdown on black market tobacco.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has more than 300 open cases of illicit cigarette trafficking -- including several with terrorist links -- up from only a handful five years ago, ATF sources said.

"This is a major priority for us," said Michael Bouchard, assistant director of the ATF. "The deeper we dig into these cases, the more ties to terrorism we're discovering."

Those links above are only a drop in the bucket, especially where China is concerned.

There is a process for properly releasing classified information. Broadcasting it on CSPAN without prior coordination and clearance generally doesn't conform to that.

China has no debt? Really? China is no paragon of fiscal virtue, they're barreling down the road to financial ruin unless they do some significant restructuring.

Which were used by the US at least since 1959 and various other examples in use or in development since then.

Oh, and as for the AirSea Battle Office, some apparently believe that it is redundant and superfluous as other parts of the US military already got that covered.

Since the ASB Office was first announced in August 2011, the Pentagon has faced charges that it is redundant with missions performed by other parts of the defense bureaucracy. It has often struggled to define how the ASB Office differs from other areas of the Pentagon, and to explain the value it adds to the services.

OK, so that was an anecdote, which I admit is unusual for me.

Here's a story published this week about how Android is growing three times faster than iOS if you prefer statistics instead: http://thediplomat.com/tech-biz/2013/08/08/apples-shrinking-market-share-android-broadens-mobile-device-lead/

Back in the real world it is obvious that Android's rise is due to the ultra cheap Androids replacing feature phones in all ways including in function.

OK, so that was an anecdote, which I admit is unusual for me.

Here's a story published this week about how Android is growing three times faster than iOS if you prefer statistics instead:
http://thediplomat.com/tech-biz/2013/08/08/apples-shrinking-market-share-android-broadens-mobile-device-lead/

North Korea is a treasure house of natural resources if they were developed correctly:

http://thediplomat.com/2012/08/30/north-koreas-six-trillion-dollar-question/