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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    They don't care, because this isn't about Canada - this is part playing to their domestic audience that they have weight to throw around and are willing to do so, and it's part warning to other countries. Maybe next time Belgium will be more reluctant to cooperate compared to just a couple...
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    I'm pretty sure the goal here is not to influence this trial but to intimidate countries that might receive extradition requests from the US in the future into potentially reconsidering their cooperation with Washington.
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    Carriers still use dedicated AWACS although inflight refueling is done with buddy refuelling now. More to the point, bringing the carriers in closer just shifts the risk from USAF aircraft and bases to Navy aircraft and vessels.
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    Canada vs ISIL: War vs fight? (split fm Politics in 2016)

    Would you consider Taiwan a state? Officially recognized or not, ISIL acts like a state. It maintains or at least tries very hard to maintain a monopoly on the use of force inside its borders. It HAS borders. It maintains armed forces, administers territory, operates a judiciary (however...
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    Politics in 2016

    While this particular Dilbert strip ran nearly two decades ago...
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    The Next Conservative Leader

    When comparing GDP across time, the figures are adjusted for inflation to compare like to like. Check the fine print on graphs and you'll usually see something like *2013 CAD or *2012 USD It'll almost always be using the currency value from a couple years ago after that year's tax numbers have...
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    I wonder if North American industry is capable of that level of fine manufacture, or if it's an industrial niche that everyone else has ceded over to the mittelstand and the Japanese (or Swiss) equivalents. Nearly all of my brother's optometry equipment is manufactured in either Switzerland or...
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    PMJT: The First 100 Days

    For 'random' interviews in a city where about half the population has a first language other than English, a similar proportion aren't white, only 42% voted Liberal, and nearly a third of eligible voters didn't cast a ballot, ... they sure did end up with an unrepresentative group of white...
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    Russia in the 21st Century [Superthread]

    I wonder if the death was anything as suspicious as that of the GCHQ mathematician found dead in a padlocked bag in his bathtub.
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    Buying (modern) Chinese fighters also means being logistically tied to the Russians for engines. I suspect not too many countries able to afford the J-31 are particularly interested in becoming dependent on not one, but two foreign powers to keep their fleet up and running.
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    Article is date-stamped early-2012. Also, all other images of the J-16 show a twin-seat aircraft in the same configuration as the Su-30. The image used in the article looks like a photoshop someone did for a RIFTS game (the result pulled by Google reverse-image search). The photoshopper appears...
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    Politics in 2015

    That's a more perceptive analysis than I've seen in any Canadian media outlets yet.
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    Election 2015

    I don't think I was blaming the federal government for it there - just pointing out that it's an issue that the outgoing party no longer needs to worry about handling. Although there was that early period (2006-2008) when the gov't backed 100% financing and 40-year term mortgages before...
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    Election 2015

    Too soon, impossible (604 area code, see...), not needed under the present circumstances. Also atypically spare living, but I take your point about average households and their many other expenses. Per recceguy's request to remain on-topic, I think the outgoing government left the Liberals one...
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    Election 2015

    What? I invest the full 10k in the TFSA. I've maxed out the TFSA every year. It's RRSPs I don't make a contribution to. In other news, the first thing in my mind seeing the electoral map of the Maritimes was "The East is Red"
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