Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "China: Balancing a Floundering Russia and Angry Americans" video.

China bought up GE appliances division through questionable deals, in order to weasel-in on GE jet engines. They could give to rips about airlines, as the priority is for their fighters and military aircraft. Airlines are down the priority list for them. They’re important for domestic and regional clout, but it all comes down to being able to back up your clout with air power. Making jet engines is an exclusive club China has been trying to join since the 1980s, and failing miserably at it. The US is the global leader in fighter jet and turbofan engine design and manufacturing, surpassing the British in the 1960s-1970s at the latest. UK is 2nd in terms of quality. Russia is 2nd in terms of quantity and knocking off US designs, but still falling behind in performance, systems integration, and HPHT stage longevity. France is 3rd in quality, right up there with UK. Germany is up there with UK and France. Japan is up-and-coming in this space. China is way behind all of the above, and they’ve been throwing billions at trying to copy the GE CFM56 since the 1980s. China crashes Flankers and J-20s quite frequently, one of the main causes being engines exploding in flight. They have relied on Russia for the better part of the last 70 years, and Russian engines have sucked all along that time. China had no interest in the Su-35 itself, but had to order them just to get the engines. Russians put dead-man’s switches in them of course so the engines couldn’t be used in other Chinese Flankers like the J-16. Engines are a big deal though.
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@ahndeux I'm not confusing them, since I've been in aerospace and defense since the 1970s, with specific proximity to fighter engine development. For anyone who knows how China thinks and steals though, it was a political-economic lever to weasel closer to GE engines.
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@SMarkGee How dare you bloody leave out the Kardashians butt sizes! What are you? Some kind of fascist? Also, you didn’t even mention what time all the global leaders and their companions showed up to the Queen’s funeral. GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT!!!!!
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Corporate whore presstitutes are ad agencies for their owners. The end. If you doubt me, simply go look at the media conglomerates that own them and who sits on those boards, by name. You will find Chief Corporate Officers from the top 10 industries in the region/world where the media hype is being propagated. You will notice sensationalist headlines as hooks, to get lemmings to view and glue to screens, so that advertising segments for the major companies can be placed. That’s it. None of the rest of it matters to them.
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Multiple US politicians and their family surrogates have been transferring US defense technology to China since the 1990s. One of the latest, most egregious examples was Neil Bush merging his US Defense holdings firm with his Chinese real estate front company. You then go back to what happened with the Clintons and Obama, and now Biden families where they sell out behind the scenes, while pretending to be protectors of their countrymen. Treason, treason, treason
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@GoingFar77 The US blue collar middle class kids went into more tech jobs, college degree programs with expectations of office work rather than factory work. The US leads the world in innovation, creating new technologies, and more think work vs labor, although we still have a gargantuan skilled labor sector. We offloaded low-skill/low-priority work, like toys, pencils, pens, short life goods, clothing/textiles, some furniture, small appliances, etc. For durable goods that require skilled labor, we still have massive aerospace, automotive, electronics, and semiconductor jobs. For the energy industry, we lead the world in production and refining. For agriculture, there isn’t any place like the US in terms of volume, variety, and long-lasting crop harvest seasons. One of the biggest misnomers is that America doesn’t produce anything anymore, when in fact, we’re the 2nd largest exporter, 1st-largest consumer of our own goods, with exports being only 15% of our economy. When you place those into context and see that our exports are huge for the world, but small for us, you realize how great the US economy is.
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@comment3711 Soviets have had a plan to Balkanize the US, just to degrade our military influence in their backyard because they know what a giant we are compared to their passant economy and industry.
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