Taiwanese people seeking nuclear weapons to weaken America's rivals would face international sanctions and risk nuclear war with their own compatriots. I believe that even if the United States offered assistance, 2025's Taiwan would be unlikely to accept such a course of action.
In reality, Taiwan's nuclear program was halted by the United States.
If you don't mind using shared platforms, accessing academic literature isn't as difficult as it seems.
Sci-hub and ZLibrary can solve many problems. If you need to access specific papers, some mutual-aid platforms can be used to retrieve them.
Some of these entries are no longer valid, as the most intense conflict of the 21st century—the war in Ukraine—has driven rapid advancements in military technology. Russian and Ukrainian forces are increasingly employing swarm drone operations and robotic (or “Buryat”) units, while China and the United States are developing more sophisticated and integrated unmanned weapon systems.
Don't be too harsh. Many users on this forum live in a cultural environment influenced by American perspectives, where their values are heavily shaped by propaganda portraying China as an adversarial tribe. Their views on China are entirely predictable.
The United States also has its own Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Does this imply that an AI aligned with the United States would establish such detention camps worldwide?
If this artificial intelligence (which is highly improbable) is well-aligned and not controlled by a madman, then it would not
Artificial intelligence can address terrorism through more moderate means rather than establishing detention facilities or bombing residential areas. Whether radical measures are employed in the war on terror does not directly reflect how a regime will utilize artificial intelligence.
But what if they misquote “armies are made of people” and assume AI will be as foolish as portrayed in movies? Or what if they believe AI cannot take over industry, making the loss of military power irreversible? Or what if they fall into the illusion that AI can only be used for military purposes, thinking they need only prevent it from controlling armies—thus overlooking the possibility of a soft takeover?
The best of Liu Cixin's novels about super AI is China 2185, which is also Liu Cixin's unreleased debut novel
The USSR did sign a mutual assistance pact with Czechoslovakia to guarantee its security, but unfortunately, because of the Polish boycott and the lack of enthusiasm against Germany in Romania, the USSR was unable to send its army units to Czechoslovakia, even though they mobilized their troops during the Sudeten Crisis.
Poland was already nearly collapsed by the time the Soviets started attacking it, and I suspect that the Soviets might only have been able to buy half a month by not attacking Poland, which likely wouldn't have affected anything, but the Soviets would have lost the buffer zone of marshes and forests that had stymied the German offensive, even though they hadn't been effective in Operation Barbarossa
If the Soviets had decided to fight Poland and Germany at the same time (the Poles would not have fought alongside the Soviets due to the Soviet-Polish War and subsequent anti-Soviet sentiment in Poland, as well as the fact that the Soviet Union's objectives included the capture of western Belorussia and western Ukraine), they would have lost a year of preparation, the effect of which would have depended on whether or not this prevented Operation Yellow from being successful.Unfortunately, the Soviets and the French didn't trust each other, and it's unlikely that they would have reduced their own chances of surviving a particular offensive for the sake of the other.
Crimean activists believe that 46 percent of the population died, and the KGB countered this by declaring that only 22 percent of Crimeans died.
https://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/u/ussr/ussr.919/usssr919full.pdf
Lack of consensus among demographers on the number of casualties in this matter
In addition, many of the reports were issued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which made it easier to use Soviet administrative documents, but also led to the possibility that the authors would not be corrected if they wished to smear the Soviet Union.
If the overall economy remains dominated by underdeveloped subsistence agriculture, and wages for cheap labor in cities still far exceed those of serfs, then people will not harbor significant discontent over low urban wages.
Should wages rise, enterprises would incur losses by being unable to afford their employees, ultimately leading to worker unemployment. Therefore, during such periods demanding higher rates of accumulation for industrial development, neither the government, the bourgeoisie, nor the laborers have any reason to pursue reforms.