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One of the best ways I've found suppliers is to use the embassies of those countries. For example, I contacted the Taiwan trade office here in Canada and told them I am looking for a widget that we currently procure in China and want to look at Taiwan options. Once you tell them this the trade officer is put on alert and they make the connections with potential suppliers for you.The company I work for, which is not one of the really big boys but does sell hundreds of thousands of units a year, has a strategy of moving production out of China over the next few years. But it's not easy finding manufacturing plants that produce the required quality in the required numbers.
Oh, so it's a bad thing to have depleted Uranium ammunition but yet it's ok to shell nuclear power plants.Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the UK plan to send such ammunition a "Yugoslavia scenario", saying it caused cancer and infected the environment.
If the Ukrainians are willing to use DP rounds within their own territory, I say there's zero issues. It'll be just part of the decade-long cleanup once this war is over. It's the landmines everywhere that will cause the greater issue postwar.Just saw this on the BBC. UK is sending depleted uranium AP rounds with its Chally 2s
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the UK plan to send such ammunition a "Yugoslavia scenario", saying it caused cancer and infected the environment.
I see a significant change of discourse.Putin then says that if the UK supplies ammunition with depleted uranium to Ukraine, Russia will be forced to react.
The body language between Putin and Xi says a lot. Putin is doing all the talking, slouched in his chair spending the vast majority of the time looking down and anywhere but at Xi. Xi is more upright, but not stiff, looking directly at Putin nearly all the time.Interesting take on the Ukraine war from China. Not a political commentary but certainly one that contains some refreshing candour:
An Insider's Perspective on China's Strategy in Ukraine
Russia cannot win, says former Chinese defense officialtime.com
Depleted Uranium has 40% less isotopes than raw Uranium found in nature, so you can safely handle ammunition or armor without risk of exposure.
It's the concentration of dust from knocked out tanks or targets (bunkers, etc.) that would pose a potential health problem until the DU oxidizes and returns to nature and becomes part of the natural background radiation, which doesn't take long.
So once a destroyed tank is washed out (rain or power-washing), it's ready to be dismantled and/or scrapped.
When the west started to discuss sending western tanks. Russians stated that they will consider depleted Uranium ammo equivalent to a dirty bomb, leading to a nuclear escalation from their side. That was just 2 months ago.
I am confused by this part of the artical
The statement on social media said the missiles, designed to be launched from surface ships in Russia's Black Sea fleet, had an operational range of more than 2,500 kms (1,550 miles) on land and 375 kms (233 miles) at sea.
Why would the missiles range be affected by operating over land or sea?
If I was Xi, I'd be saying "What? You want me to walk halfway down a room to shake hands...just to take photos? Sorry, but I have better things to do with my time!"
Am I missing something here?
Stalin lost 20 million soldiers and civilians in WW2 and carried on in power. Putin's losses so far in Ukraine amount to perhaps a fortnight of Stalin's. Putin will remain in power until he expires.And were I Putin I'd be loathe to let Russian soldiers see me living in such opulence while they're busy fighting and dying.
Stalin lost 20 million soldiers and civilians in WW2 and carried on in power. Putin's losses so far in Ukraine amount to perhaps a fortnight of Stalin's. Putin will remain in power until he expires.