GPS

The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS,[2] is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force.[3]

The GPS service is controlled by the United States government, which can selectively deny access to the system, as happened to the Indian military in 1999 during the Kargil War, or degrade the service at any time.[9] As a result, several countries have developed or are in the process of setting up other global or regional satellite navigation systems. The Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) was developed contemporaneously with GPS, but suffered from incomplete coverage of the globe until the mid-2000s.[10] GLONASS can be added to GPS devices, making more satellites available and enabling positions to be fixed more quickly and accurately, to within two meters (6.6 ft).[11] China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System began global services in 2018, and finished its full deployment in 2020.[12] There are also the European Union Galileo positioning system, and India's NavIC. Japan's Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) is a GPS satellite-based augmentation system to enhance GPS's accuracy in Asia-Oceania, with satellite navigation independent of GPS scheduled for 2023.[13]

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>>14723128

100% on the money analysis. I dunno who this writer is, but he gets it.

He did not mention one wildcard in the equation, that is the Chinese citizen's tendency toward group-think. They are a society in which every tendency is in sync with societal groups. This is why the social credit system works so well. The hive mind can get buzzing about something totally false, but it doesn't matter, they will all believe it. Their collective ire will be directed somewhere….maybe the CCP, maybe Taiwan, maybe even Hong Kong. Wherever it goes, no one will be able to reason them with facts.

Another thing the writer misses is that for any solution to avoid war, it must have a FACE-SAVING safety valve. China or Xi would have to do something heroic or admirable. Invading Taiwan saves face to the people, but to save face to the world and avoid global conflict, they would have to do something really big and really positive.

I think Trump knew this. If Xi and Trump are working together somehow, then look for just this kind of Hero scenario. China saves us from space aliens. China cures Covid. China solves nuclear fusion. Giving China credit for something big is necessary for any future peaceful relations.

Or maybe the Deep State is just saying fuck it, we don't need no stinking peace. An all-out country to country war would truly be devastating, and I gotta believe that is the ultimate precipice.