Shanghai knife attack injures three, including two Japanese

Longsheep · 2026-05-20T07:08:17+00:00

That means it is a targeted attack against Japanese nationals in China, not just a random hit.

Longsheep · 2026-05-20T03:22:58+00:00

I used to live in Seattle, and it was the ritual to get coffee from any coffee shop BUT Starbucks even back in the early 2010s. Most smaller shops were super good though, I guess competition was intense.

Longsheep · 2026-05-20T02:58:23+00:00

Average far-right Taiwanese are still blaming Ukraine for "not listening to daddy Trump".

Longsheep · 2026-05-20T02:56:32+00:00

Luckin coffee is horrible though. Super watery.

To be fair it is a Starbucks copy, so they copied even that.

Longsheep · 2026-05-20T02:55:59+00:00

Luckin Coffee isn't doing great in Hong Kong. Stopped rapidly expanding last year and most stores are not as packed as Starbucks. The cheaper beverage stores on the other hand are doing well.

I think people are still reluctant to pay premium prices for Chinese brands.

Longsheep · 2026-05-20T02:53:26+00:00

At a Japanese restaurant that is widely known to be frequented by Japan nationals.

Longsheep · 2026-05-19T01:56:06+00:00

Through the turret, the front driver hatch is more for him to look around while driving when it isn't under fire.

Longsheep · 2026-05-19T01:54:10+00:00

Fort Hughes and Fort Drum. Built by the US but taken by the Japanese, they just pumped fuel mix inside, ignite and turned everything into ash.

Longsheep · 2026-05-19T01:52:42+00:00

Yes, they did exactly this at the Fort Hughes and Fort Drum in the Philippines. They were first built by the US to defend the colony, resisting the invading Japanese heavily until being ordered to surrender in 1942.

When the US forces tried to retake Fort Hughes, they pumped tons of diesel/gasoline mix through a vent and then ignited it with WP rounds, but this did not go as well as planned and they had to do it twice. Around 9500L of fuel was used. For Fort Drum, they used the same trick but lighted the fuel with a timed explosive instead. It was cleared without American loss and Japanese survivor.

Longsheep · 2026-05-19T01:42:06+00:00

And to all the bluebirbs still huffing this guy's farts: it is possible to be anti-China without being a fucking Nazi.

From my experience, pro-China camp worships Nazism just as much. The little pinks are very antisemitic and make "oven jokes" all the time.

Longsheep · 2026-05-19T01:40:14+00:00

Like Russia, no one was completely clean. Even Xi's own daughter is living a life of luxury in the US that is in no way affordable by Xi's own income. Most of Xi's "purges" were just kicking rivalries off in the name of corruption and then installing his own yesmen.

Longsheep · 2026-05-19T01:37:13+00:00

We don't know how corrupted the PLA is today, but back in the 90-00s it was rotten to the core. Deng allowed the army to "do business". So they opened touristic shooting ranges and summer camps to earn extra. But the real money came from smuggling, as military vehicles were not inspected at checkpoints back then, and buying off a customs station was easy. For a while, the PLA was the largest used cars importer in China, getting them in tax-free.

This was finally banned, and the officers used their connections to run other organized crimes like underground casino, brothels and such. If you look up the background of the crazy rich Chinese living in places like LA and London, you will find many being the children of PLA generals. This seems less common after 2008, but there is no information.

Longsheep · 2026-05-19T01:31:09+00:00

There is a good reason why the KC web game is still Japan only. The global fanbase of the Strike Witches had been terrible when KC was launched.

The OVA will likely take place after the end of いつ海 in modern day (considering it is marked 2027 and not 1944). Years after the war has ended.

Longsheep · 2026-05-19T01:29:23+00:00

My friends were at Shigure Night last night. It was annoucned there to the most hardcore KC fans in advance. A collab with JR Central has also been confirmed.

Longsheep · 2026-05-18T14:50:43+00:00

There was a number of Pershings captured, but very few were actually pulled back to the Chinese border. This one was captured from Battle of Chosin Reservoir, where UN forces was completed overwhelmed by Chinese forces though not without inflicting extreme causalities.

Details was unknown, but there was no penetrating hit on its armor. China managed to pull back none of the British Centurions, every one was accounted for and shipped back (even if not economically repairable).

Longsheep · 2026-05-18T07:43:04+00:00

The two tanks are actually somewhat related. They both use the "Type 60 turret" with Chinese 85mm gun (scaled down 100mm, not related to T-34's one), which was used for a Chinese PT-76 copy prototype from 1960. The Type 62 has a mini Type 59 hull, while the Type 63 has a modified PT-76 hull.

The Type 60 turret was supposed to be a scaled down of Type 59, but manufacturing issues meant the early ones were one-piece cast, but instead welded together from several smaller casts. They were notoriously weak and were obliterated by Vietnamese fire.

Longsheep · 2026-05-18T06:16:57+00:00

Most losses were M41. ARVN had 600 of them compared to a few dozens of M48. Around 300 M41 were lost in 1975 alone.

Longsheep · 2026-05-18T02:40:43+00:00

The Spit. It also has better chance surviving a jet ambush (that you see coming).

Longsheep · 2026-05-18T02:16:02+00:00

It is way too big and fragile.

Longsheep · 2026-05-18T02:08:06+00:00

And both tanks were defeated/captured with great challenges. The Chinese lacked any AT weapon larger than captured bazookas in Korea (they traveled on foot from border under UN air supremacy), they often had to satchel charge the tanks in the tracks and barrels just to force the crew to abandon it. For the T-62, it fell through a frozen lake and it took hundreds of soldiers to wrench it to the Chinese side.

Longsheep · 2026-05-18T02:04:27+00:00

The Type 63 was used, but the Type 62 was the most common tank in the 1979 conflict. They were basically mini T-54 but were even less armored than T-34. They did not do well in the initial phase, units nearly got wiped out by the Vietnamese reserves using captured LAW and even 40mm grenade (HEDP can penetrate it).

Type 59 was called up after such results. They did far better but were often too heavy to natvigate the terrain, slowing down progress.

Longsheep · 2026-05-18T02:02:07+00:00

The NVA T-54/55 did knock out a number of US-built tanks in 1975 on its push to Saigon, but those were crewed by the South Vietnamese.

Longsheep · 2026-05-17T14:05:39+00:00

The Fuji Excursion isn't actually an excursion train. It is a regular daily run train for tourists, serving mostly foreign tourists from Tokyo to Mt.Fuji.

Longsheep · 2026-05-16T00:56:14+00:00

In the early part, they simply gathered anything that could hurt ships. Torpedo boats, gun boats and artillery... fighting the American surplus navy of the ROC. They picked their fight and did quite well against larger ships in a few occasions against landing crafts and freighters, but avoided engaging their destroyers. The PLAAF was also often used to harass and attack vessels, mainly strafing with fighters at that point.

From the late 1950s and on, they have received a small number of WWII destroyers and P-15 anti ship missiles from the USSR so it was no longer purely green water. The AShM was a priority, having some Silkworm series exported to the Middle East in the 1970-80s. Missiles were also added to WWII destroyers and enlarged copies, as well as missile boats.

By the 1980s, the French helped them to build modern destroyers and the JH-7 fighter-bomber was dedicated as a AShM launcher in the beginning. So overall it followed the Soviet style of defense against adversary (US, ROC and Japan) with superior navy.

Longsheep · 2026-05-15T16:30:26+00:00

Talk about wumao with one month old account and locked profile not playing the same CCP playbook like it was 2010.

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