Do you believe that US has stopped monitoring the world?

[Nilgiri]

Lol! Other than the e-cigarette can you name anything remotely ubiquitous that China invented that people around the world use?

Put on that thinking cap and try to list some.
It could be as simple as a new style of paperclip! A better snap button for your jacket...anything.

Compass, wheelbarrow, silk, paper money?

 

[Nilgiri]

gunpowder?

Yeah but not so ubiquitous anymore (original blackpowder)....if we are going on the strict sense of the current use today.

We have moved onto better alternatives that use cordite, nitrocellulose etc

 

[SBUS-CXK]

We are sorry China is not as resourceful as the US and Russia (and others) when it comes to spy satellite capabilities. It’s just a byproduct of you guys being backwards.

yes, yes. After all, you need to monitor the world.

 

[Nilgiri]

is it not like saying that the Wright brothers should not get credit for the airplane because Boeing makes jetliners?

Nah because that is all powered flight and is thus ubiquitous today. Gliders (and aerial craft like kites, balloons etc i.e non powered stuff) go back lot further in history and would be the blackpowder equivalent imo.

Like I said its being very strict...conceptually the credit for "projectile propellant" often just called "gunpowder" today ought to be given to the Chinese civilisation. Just depends how and where you want to nitpick. But I would not say its as ubiquitous in original exact form like it is with silk, compass etc (which are composed of the exact same stuff and principles in the end)....given the significance (in use/employability) of modern propellant being smokeless....and not using any of the original ingredients used in blackpowder.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Lol! Other than the e-cigarette can you name anything remotely ubiquitous that China invented that people around the world use?

Put on that thinking cap and try to list some.
It could be as simple as a new style of paperclip! A better snap button for your jacket...anything.

LOL, we invented gunpowder to conquer America.
I guess spy satellites were invented by Yankees!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

is this what is called an oxymoron?

Well if I said just ubiquitous people would say it isn't in Antarctica. So I will preface it with something to loosen it.

Compass, wheelbarrow, silk, paper money?

Can we name something within the last 100 years.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Well if I said just ubiquitous people would say it isn't in Antarctica. So I will preface it with something to loosen it.

Please don't divert the topic. US is still monitoring the world.
Admit it, or deny it.

@Hamartia Antidote @Nilgiri

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Please don't divert the topic. US is still monitoring the world.
Admit it, or deny it.

@Hamartia Antidote @Nilgiri

Of course we are and so is any other country with satellites that eavesdrop on communications.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Of course we are and so is any other country with satellites that eavesdrop on communications.

Please note that. You are monitoring the world. And you control the world.

 

[KAL-EL]

Of course we are and so is any other country with satellites that eavesdrop on communications.

You're obviously free to reply to anything you wish, but you do realize that this is an instigative thread?

 

[Nilgiri]

Can we name something within the last 100 years.

Well you caught them (and us i.e India) at kind of a lousy time compared to the historical averages. It will take time to put real wind behind our sails. We are still in catch up mode.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Well you caught them (and us i.e India) at kind of a lousy time compared to the historical averages. It will take time to put real wind behind our sails. We are still in catch up mode.

If I say US did not monitor India. do you believe?

 

[Nilgiri]

If I say US did not monitor India. do you believe?

US monitors everyone dude. So I would not believe you if you said that.

Anyone in same position as US would do the same. Other major powers do the most they can afforded to them (on this concept).

 

[SBUS-CXK]

US monitors everyone dude. So I would not believe you if you said that.

Anyone in same position as US would do the same. Other major powers do the most they can afforded to them (on this concept).

If you think every country is monitoring others, I admit.

But what I'm talking about is that some countries are monitoring the world. they are a global attack power.
Manipulate the world economy, war, and public opinion.

we monitor the others because we want to defense. they monitor the world because they want to attack. or
maintain its hegemony. in this case, everyone is the victim.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

what's the point in re-inventing the wheel over and over? anything you got they can acquire with a little or no effort

You don't have to reinvent wheel.

How about something as simple as Velcro (Swiss)/DualLock(US), scotch tape, or the pull-tab can?

US monitors everyone dude. So I would not believe you if you said that.

Anyone in same position as US would do the same. Other major powers do the most they can afforded to them (on this concept).

I'm sure even the penguins in Antarctica.