China has a Borg problem....will it save the world from China?

[Harry Dresden]

you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...

Exactly. The klingons would still be a hunter gatherer species and the Ferengi would be Jewish pawnshop owners.

Actually, the Ferengi woul likely be the most powerful race in that show.......their competitive nature would have given them the advantage over the federation, the romulans and the klingons, they would have had the best military and the best technology..

You are right about the Klingons.....they wouldn't have had the ability to develop their tech base because of their culture......

the only problem with that is the Ferengi were cowards.....

And that is what is wrong with the characterisation of the Ferengi......venture capitalists, the sort the Ferengi are, are not cowards, and, in fact, they are real risk takers in any society.......

i am talking about the Ferengi standing up to the Klingons and others in combat...

 

[2aguy]

More problems in China that might save the West....

But beneath the shiny new infrastructure, the amazing economic growth and competitiveness, China faces a reckoning, just as it prepares to mark a century of its Communist Party.

We can thank President Trump for the belated recognition that China is the most important strategic threat to the United States. As little as two years ago, Joe Biden stupidly dismissed the idea that China was a threat:
But China under the near-dictatorial rule of Xi Jinping is alienating most of the world's advanced economies.

The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to freeze the ratification process of an investment pact with China — a deal that Beijing six months ago considered a big strategic victory.
It has sent shock waves throughout China, with only one month and change before arguably the most important event in President Xi Jinping's era, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's establishment, on July 1.
Some party members are worried that the centenary's festive mood will be dampened by the harsh diplomatic reality. Not only are China's relations with the U.S. bad, but now EU relations are stuck in a ditch.
At this rate, not many Western leaders are likely to phone or telegraph congratulatory messages to Beijing for the party's 100th birthday.
President Xi does not appear to have many cards to play.

It is not just the U.S. and the E.U. that China has alienated. The entire world has been traumatized by the COVID pandemic that we now know (after over a year of media and tech complicity in pushing the cover story of wet market origins) came out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology's lab. And we know that when people got sick in Wuhan, China shut down travel to the rest of China while allowing Chinese to travel overseas, a near–smoking gun bit of evidence that China saw it as a bioweapon, whether or not it was deliberately engineered as such.

Australia has had the effrontery to demand a reckoning from China on COVID's origins and has been mercilessly bullied by China for doing so. China's neighbors in Asia, with the sole exception of North Korea, have been deeply alienated by China's aggressive moves in the South China Sea, creating artificial islands, building military installations there, and claiming sovereignty, including the right to control seaborne commerce through the busiest and economically most critical trade routes in the world. America's challenge to those claims is drawing support even from former enemies like Vietnam, along with the rest of coastal Asia. India, China's neighbor and the only other country with a billion-plus citizens, is fighting a war with it in the Himalayas and is mobilized against China.

China's Xi may be screwing up as badly as Biden, maybe even worse

Many fatalists see America in decline and China ascendant. China's dictator, Xi Jinping, agrees in public. But beneath the shiny new infrastructure, the amazing economic growth and competitiveness, China faces a reckoning, j...

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[2aguy]

you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...

Exactly. The klingons would still be a hunter gatherer species and the Ferengi would be Jewish pawnshop owners.

Actually, the Ferengi woul likely be the most powerful race in that show.......their competitive nature would have given them the advantage over the federation, the romulans and the klingons, they would have had the best military and the best technology..

You are right about the Klingons.....they wouldn't have had the ability to develop their tech base because of their culture......

the only problem with that is the Ferengi were cowards.....

And that is what is wrong with the characterisation of the Ferengi......venture capitalists, the sort the Ferengi are, are not cowards, and, in fact, they are real risk takers in any society.......

i am talking about the Ferengi standing up to the Klingons and others in combat...

The Ferengi ships would likely be as good or outclass the klingon ships.......and their armies would be better armed and as well trained.

 

[Harry Dresden]

you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...

Exactly. The klingons would still be a hunter gatherer species and the Ferengi would be Jewish pawnshop owners.

Actually, the Ferengi woul likely be the most powerful race in that show.......their competitive nature would have given them the advantage over the federation, the romulans and the klingons, they would have had the best military and the best technology..

You are right about the Klingons.....they wouldn't have had the ability to develop their tech base because of their culture......

the only problem with that is the Ferengi were cowards.....

And that is what is wrong with the characterisation of the Ferengi......venture capitalists, the sort the Ferengi are, are not cowards, and, in fact, they are real risk takers in any society.......

i am talking about the Ferengi standing up to the Klingons and others in combat...

The Ferengi ships would likely be as good or outclass the klingon ships.......and their armies would be better armed and as well trained.

you are creating your own star trek lore now....

 

[2aguy]

you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...

Exactly. The klingons would still be a hunter gatherer species and the Ferengi would be Jewish pawnshop owners.

Actually, the Ferengi woul likely be the most powerful race in that show.......their competitive nature would have given them the advantage over the federation, the romulans and the klingons, they would have had the best military and the best technology..

You are right about the Klingons.....they wouldn't have had the ability to develop their tech base because of their culture......

the only problem with that is the Ferengi were cowards.....

And that is what is wrong with the characterisation of the Ferengi......venture capitalists, the sort the Ferengi are, are not cowards, and, in fact, they are real risk takers in any society.......

i am talking about the Ferengi standing up to the Klingons and others in combat...

The Ferengi ships would likely be as good or outclass the klingon ships.......and their armies would be better armed and as well trained.

you are creating your own star trek lore now....

No....I am looking at the the show in more real world ways...

The Ferengi would need a top military to protect their investments.....they would have competition to create technology and medical advances in order to make profit from them...

Klingons put less value on anything not related to direct combat...right? So in reality, their weapons tech would likely be less advanced than the Ferengi.....since scientists would be less valued by their culture....

 

[miketx]

you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...

Exactly. The klingons would still be a hunter gatherer species and the Ferengi would be Jewish pawnshop owners.

Actually, the Ferengi woul likely be the most powerful race in that show.......their competitive nature would have given them the advantage over the federation, the romulans and the klingons, they would have had the best military and the best technology..

You are right about the Klingons.....they wouldn't have had the ability to develop their tech base because of their culture......

the only problem with that is the Ferengi were cowards.....

And that is what is wrong with the characterisation of the Ferengi......venture capitalists, the sort the Ferengi are, are not cowards, and, in fact, they are real risk takers in any society.......

i am talking about the Ferengi standing up to the Klingons and others in combat...

The Ferengi ships would likely be as good or outclass the klingon ships.......and their armies would be better armed and as well trained.

you are creating your own star trek lore now....

No....I am looking at the the show in more real world ways...

The Ferengi would need a top military to protect their investments.....they would have competition to create technology and medical advances in order to make profit from them...

Klingons put less value on anything not related to direct combat...right? So in reality, their weapons tech would likely be less advanced than the Ferengi.....since scientists would be less valued by their culture....

The Klingons would still be hunter gatherers.

 

[2aguy]

you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...

Exactly. The klingons would still be a hunter gatherer species and the Ferengi would be Jewish pawnshop owners.

Actually, the Ferengi woul likely be the most powerful race in that show.......their competitive nature would have given them the advantage over the federation, the romulans and the klingons, they would have had the best military and the best technology..

You are right about the Klingons.....they wouldn't have had the ability to develop their tech base because of their culture......

the only problem with that is the Ferengi were cowards.....

And that is what is wrong with the characterisation of the Ferengi......venture capitalists, the sort the Ferengi are, are not cowards, and, in fact, they are real risk takers in any society.......

i am talking about the Ferengi standing up to the Klingons and others in combat...

The Ferengi ships would likely be as good or outclass the klingon ships.......and their armies would be better armed and as well trained.

you are creating your own star trek lore now....

No....I am looking at the the show in more real world ways...

The Ferengi would need a top military to protect their investments.....they would have competition to create technology and medical advances in order to make profit from them...

Klingons put less value on anything not related to direct combat...right? So in reality, their weapons tech would likely be less advanced than the Ferengi.....since scientists would be less valued by their culture....

The Klingons would still be hunter gatherers.

There focus on combat might lead to innovation in weapons and tactics but their seeming disdain for science and technology would cripple them....

 

[Harry Dresden]

you don't get the technological advancement from race turned into mindless automatons...

Exactly. The klingons would still be a hunter gatherer species and the Ferengi would be Jewish pawnshop owners.

Actually, the Ferengi woul likely be the most powerful race in that show.......their competitive nature would have given them the advantage over the federation, the romulans and the klingons, they would have had the best military and the best technology..

You are right about the Klingons.....they wouldn't have had the ability to develop their tech base because of their culture......

the only problem with that is the Ferengi were cowards.....

And that is what is wrong with the characterisation of the Ferengi......venture capitalists, the sort the Ferengi are, are not cowards, and, in fact, they are real risk takers in any society.......

i am talking about the Ferengi standing up to the Klingons and others in combat...

The Ferengi ships would likely be as good or outclass the klingon ships.......and their armies would be better armed and as well trained.

you are creating your own star trek lore now....

No....I am looking at the the show in more real world ways...

The Ferengi would need a top military to protect their investments.....they would have competition to create technology and medical advances in order to make profit from them...

Klingons put less value on anything not related to direct combat...right? So in reality, their weapons tech would likely be less advanced than the Ferengi.....since scientists would be less valued by their culture....

the klingons realize that without scientist and engineers they would not have the ships and weapons they have which are more powerful than the what the Ferengies have....the Klingons had warp drive before they had it and traded that technology to the Romulans for their cloaking technology....both of which the Ferengi did not have....and please dont tell me that the Ferengi would have been more advanced than the Romulans....

 

[Esdraelon]

.China is a hollow power

That may be so but it also means they could be quite willing to do whatever it takes to maintain their grip on power. The CCP, just like all versions of dictatorships before them, have no compunction with mass slaughter if they think it's needed to hold onto power.