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>>> It's strategically foolish for the major economies like the EU, Russia & China to depend on the US's goodwill in maintaining a system that drives a huge par
by swatkat 10y ago
>>> It's strategically foolish for the major economies like the EU, Russia & China to depend on the US's goodwill in maintaining a system that drives a huge part of their economy, GPS is used pervasively for everything, and that's only increasing.
Exactly. For this same reason, India recently deployed its own satellite navigation system NAVIC[1][2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_Satellite_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Regional_Navigation_Sat...
[2] http://www.isro.gov.in/irnss-programme http://www.isro.gov.in/irnss-programme
- alexqgb 10y agoRussia's GLONASS too, antennas for which have been built into iPhones since the 4S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS
- nradov 10y agoMost smartphones designed in the past few years support GLONASS. Russian law requires GLONASS support to be sold there, so manufacturers have generally added it across their model lines since that's easier than producing different SKUs for sale in Russia.
- satbyy 10y agoIndeed. In the India-Pakistan Kargil war of 1999, USA sided with Pak and turned off GPS for Indian troops. That led to the creation of NAVIC http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/How-Kargil-spurred-India-to-design-own-GPS/articleshow/33254691.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/How-Kargil-s...
- saiya-jin 10y agoseriously, WTF is wrong with US and their attitude towards India/Pakistan. India is democracy, never attacked anybody out of blue from 1947 when it was created (unlike its neighbors Pakistan and China who attacked it numerous times). Yet US sides with dictatorship which doesn't even control its own secret service which creates its own terrorist organizations (laskar-e-taeba).
- rwallace 10y agoIt's a political philosophy sometimes called 'realpolitik' that basically says never mind morality, just do what is in the interests of your own country. It has a certain emotional appeal, but when you take a cold and practical look at the history of decisions made on that basis, they tend to end up doing more harm than good to the interests of the country that made them, quite apart from everyone else.
- rahrahrah 10y agoYou must be new here. It's not about democracy, it's what's more convenient for the US interests. Welcome to HN.
- cm2187 10y agoNot just dictatorships. Islamist dictatorships (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia). A lot of western (not just US) diplomacy is horribly short sighted.
- JumpCrisscross 10y ago> never attacked anybody out of blue from 1947 when it was created India "attacked" East Pakistan in the Bangladesh Liberation War [1]. Whether or not you or I feel it was justified is besides the point: it violated the sovereignty of another nation (similar to the U.S. in Iraq and Russia in Crimea). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangladesh_Liberation_War&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bangladesh_Libera...
- tim333 10y agoYour linked article reads "India joined the war on 3 December 1971, after Pakistan launched preemptive air strikes on North India." which doesn't sound out of the blue to me.
- tim333 10y agoI think they're worried the Pakistani islamists will give nukes to the international jihadi islamists if we aren't somewhat supportive.