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Exclusions And Sanctions Help ‘Enemies’ To Build Their Own Capabilities
The hostile behavior the 'west' is showing towards China and Russia has consequences.
The International Space Station is losing the Russian modules it needs to maneuver. The U.S. will immediately have to build new propulsion modules if it wants to save it.
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Russia to withdraw from International Space Station after 2024
Russia has said it will withdraw from the International Space Station (ISS) after 2024 to focus on building its own orbital outpost.
Yuri Borisov, who was appointed to lead the state-controlled space corporation Roscosmos earlier this month, said during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia would fulfil its obligations to other partners before it leaves the project.
Mr Borisov said "the decision to leave the station after 2024 has been made."
The U.S. had planned to operate the station until 2031:
Earlier this year NASA published plans for the ISS which could see the 444,615kg structure taken out of orbit in January 2031 and crashed into a "spacecraft cemetery".
It said the laboratory would continue operating until 2030 but its long-term future is unsustainable.
The end date will now likely be earlier than NASA had planned. As an earlier report explained:
Russia provides the propellant and thrusters needed to periodically reboost the station, a critical capability NASA cannot currently replace. Maneuvering is provided by thrusters built into the Russian Zarya and Zvezda modules and aboard visiting Progress supply ships.
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo ship that arrived earlier this week is the first U.S. vehicle after the space shuttle to be capable of reboost, but it cannot on its own replace the Russian capability.
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NASA astronauts are not trained to operate Russian systems and vice versa for the cosmonauts. Neither side can safely operate the lab on its own.
Without the Russians thruster modules the station will continuously slow down and sink towards earth until it breaks up and burns in the atmosphere.
For the U.S. to build its own thruster modules would very likely take more than two years. They would probably arrive too late to rescue the station.
Russia has plans to build a new space station. An alternative for it may be to hook up with the Chinese space station which was launched last year. Yesterday it received its second large module, a laboratory. A third large module will be added later this year.
China build its own space station because the U.S. had excluded it from participating in the ISS:
China has been barred from the ISS since 2011, when Congress passed a law prohibiting official American contact with the Chinese space program due to concerns about national security. “National security,” of course, is the lingua franca excuse for any country to do anything it jolly well wants to do even if it has nothing to do with, you know, the security of the nation. But never mind.
Just 11 years after the ban China has launched and operates its own space station.
It is likely that from 2025 on there will again be only one international space station. But it will be operated by China and probably Russia while the U.S. and its allies will likely be excluded from it.
This is the consequence of the U.S. hostile behavior which excludes and sanctions others for unserious reason.
The U.S. had pushed the Dutch government to prohibit the delivery of ASML machines to China that are needed to make the 4-7 nanometer structures of today's most advanced computer chips. Two weeks ago the U.S. started a push to prohibit ASML from delivering even its older models to China.
But a U.S. Canadian company recently found out that China' SMIC is already mass producing 7 nm chips. That capability had not been announced:
"This is the most advanced technology product TechInsights has seen from SMIC so far and may be leading to a true 7nm process that incorporates scaled logic and memory bitcells," TechInsights said.
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Chip world watcher Dylan Patel noted another implication for SMIC's 7nm capabilities. He said the development means China is now further ahead than the US or Europe in having 7nm contract chip manufacturing capabilities since American chipmaker Intel has yet to make its 7nm process available to foundry customers.
China is also building more chip factories than anyone else:
China is leading the world in building new chip factories, a step toward achieving more self-sufficiency in semiconductors that could eventually make some buyers reliant on China for many of the basic chips now in short supply.
As chip makers race worldwide to boost production and ease supply shortages, no country is expanding faster than China, which is slated to build 31 major semiconductor factories, known as fabs, during the four years through 2024, according to the chip-industry group SEMI.
Up to now China had imported $300 billion of chips per year. When all of China's new fabs are ready most of that money will stay in China. Chip producers in Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. will have to seek new customers or lower their own output.
The space stations and the chip sanctions only demonstrates the inevitable consequences of being hostile towards large countries like Russia and China.
They have enough alternatives to substitute sanctioned products and to eventually develop their own production capabilities.
All this while the U.S. and its allies lose market shares.
The ultimate sanction is Copyright and patent law that erects an artificial barrier to sharing knowledge in the service of monopoly rent seeking.
above Posted by: too scents | Jul 26 2022 15:02 utc | 1
There was never such a thing, at least not to any extent, and certainly not as a rent-extracting opportunity, in pre-capitalist history. While it is argued that inventors would then be deprived of the fruits of their inventions, I would reply that they are already routinely deprived of them anyway, as in the case of Nicola Tesla, and in any case corporate plunderers have no right to set them up as rent extraction opportunities or toll booths. While I would favor abolishing all patenting root and branch, not even allow corporations to patent their logos, there is a more moderate proposal that would allow inventors and authors to patent their own creations on condition that such patents lapse with the death of the holder and be forever non-inheritable, non-salable, and non-transferable. But corporations or the rich might be able to use that loophole to continue the patent system, so complete abolition would be better.
above Posted by: Cabe | Jul 26 2022 16:00 utc | 12
<= Ocean Tomo reports greater than 90% of Balance Sheet assets on exchange registered global monopoly powered corporations are intangible assets (copyrights, patents, trademarks, government contracts, and private-public investments). <==which means if the copyright and patents laws are removed from the books corporations like Microsoft,
Google, Apple sauce and most other Oligarch owned global monopoly powered corporations will be no bigger than the thimble that holds a persons thumb.
Monopoly power(copyrights, patents, trademarks, govt contracts and utility franchises, and private investments allowed in governmental enterprises) is generated by the nation state system.
The corporation itself is a fictional invention of nation state system. Those laws that create from hot thin air monopoly powers and bestow them on feudal lords (oligarch) loyal to the politicians that threaten the people who live on this earth explains the growing and massive difference between the wealth of the feudal wealthy 1% and the poverty of the 99%ers.
since the early 1960s I have been fighting to get the issues of monopoly powers into the public narrative. Patents and copyrights transfer monopoly powers( from the public domains and from domestic nation state governments) basically, the essence of government from government to the private ownership of but a very few people (people who do business in fictitious entities (corporations and partnerships with a view to avoid being sued or held liable for bankruptcy or corruption to their shareholders).
The irony is it took Russia's special military operation in Ukraine to get more than myself talking about how destructive to social society monopoly power in private hands really is.
The coming revolution likely will be over just as soon as international law is amended to to deny any nation state or any government or law or rule making body, seeking to govern any portion of humanity, to develop any system (legal or otherwise) that transfers public domain benefits or government power to private or non governmental interest.
Right to exclude others from the inventions, discoveries and creativity of mankind denies all humanity the benefit of our from the beginning social progress and is a violation of the rights of mankind.
Interesting <=there is no tax on patents or copyrights, counties and cities are missing out.
Ben Franklin <=diplomat to England when the British court
decided against perpetual copyright and patent laws in 1774 .. It was not the Copyright Act of 1709, that finally broke up the London booksellers' control of the book trade. the court decision rendered monopoly holders Legally powerless to retain control of publishing.
History shows that "by the last quarter of the century Irish and Scottish book sellers, supported by provincial retailers, were sufficiently strong to challenge the British monopoly,[they] undercut their [London] prices and open up the trade, inaugurating a new era in bookselling..
"When constraints and controls loosened, publishing expanded rapidly.."
Until perpetual copyright was declared invalid by the House of Lords in the case of Donaldson v. Beckett in 1774 decision against perpetual copyright, monopoly powers were perpetual. The Donaldson v. Beckett damaged the entrenched interest of booksellers much less than it might have since the (booksellers) instituted restrictive measures and took steps to ensure that they kept the powers the court ruled against.
Copyrights were sold, but only at auctions which members of the London trade were allowed to attend.
"Other extremely profitable monopolies, granted by royal patent, occluded the open market by granting exclusive printing rights, or patents, to certain types of literature. Like the copyrights, these patents became trade-able commodities in the publishing market.
In 1760, for example, Richardson bought a half share in the so-called Law-Patent from Miss Catherine Lintot, the daughter of a famous bookseller named Henry Lintot, which conferred exclusive rights to print books dealing with the common and statute law. It cost Richardson more than 1,000 pounds but its value was obvious: it provided a substantial and steady source of income (rentier profits) from legal guides and textbooks, editions of case law and statutes at large."
from p. 132-140 in "the Pleasures of the Imagination" John Brewer. ISBN 0-226-074-19-6
the corrupt oligarch behind the scenes in placing Article I, Section 8, paragraph 8 " to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" <= into the 17 enumerated powers of congress was the printer, inventor, British and French diplomat and global internationalist, Ben Franklin, oligarch supreme.
Posted by: snake | Jul 26 2022 17:19 utc | 30
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