India will continue to drift away from Russia for its defence equipment purchases. India will shift its military imports towards Western suppliers, and India's reliance on American weapons, in particular, will increase. Russia's weakness in advanced technology, amplified now by Western sanctions, will accelerate this drift.

This drift of Indian defense procurement will eventually alter India's foreign policy too, to the detriment of India's sovereignty, and to the economic and geostrategic benefit of the US and European nations. Global geopolitics will experience significant changes as a result.

More movies like The Kashmir Files will be released in India in the coming months, especially prior to the 2024 elections. Modi has seen that such Hindu-nationalist and highly provocative movies can fetch him votes, and the filmmakers have also seen that there's good money to be made.

America will soon place sanctions / export controls on China's largest semiconductor foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. At this point it's easy to predict that the US will rapidly choke and asphyxiate China's technology sector in every possible way, and SMIC is a critical current and future pillar of the sector.

U.S. Weighs Export Controls on China’s Top Chip Maker
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-weighs-export-controls-on-chinas-top-chip-maker-11599324489
https://archive.ph/BObtX

All these components, equipment, materials, technologies and general self-reliance plus talent that Japan and South Korea are developing and cultivating, these will directly and indirectly also help China's technology sector to ride through the storm of US attacks. Engineers being trained and nurtured by Fujitsu, NEC, Samsung, etc., will be up for grabs by China, as will be the hardware and software created in these nations.

Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Electronics/Japanese-companies-fight-for-share-of-EUV-chip-technology-sector

Korea Inc. ditches Japan chipmaking materials for homegrown supply

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-South-Korea-rift/Korea-Inc.-ditches-Japan-chipmaking-materials-for-homegrown-supply

South Korea's SK mass-produces Japan-grade etching gas

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Japan-South-Korea-rift/South-Korea-s-SK-mass-produces-Japan-grade-etching-gas

Despite America's no-holds-barred and crushing efforts to slow, halt and even reverse the growth and development of China's domestic semiconductor industry, over the next few years, Chinese chip sector will experience exponential innovation, maturity and self-reliance, ultimately coming back to haunt and hurt the US. There's no stopping the Dragon's rise now.

Russia will experience a relatively high rate of coronavirus COVID-19 infections in its population. There are no signs that strict measures are being implemented to control the pandemic. In fact, Russia seems to be very late and also inadequate in enforcing lockdowns. Will be clear in next two weeks.

As coronavirus COVID-19 wipes out the elderly in Europe, this will have a direct positive effect on feminism. Among the elderly victims are some of the most rich, powerful, elite men who not only have old-school habits and values that feminists refer to as patriarchal, but are also the ones heavily involved in flesh trade of young girls, like seen in the movie Taken. Elimination of these sexual predators is bound to reduce prevalent sexism and misogyny in European societies.

Facing immense losses from its 737 Max fiasco, Boeing will covertly encourage expansion of America's global wars, in an attempt to shore up its overall finances via increased military sales, thus killing countless more innocents.

An interesting link can be seen between the commercial performance of Boeing's passenger plane division, and the lives of innocent and otherwise-unrelated civilians in far-off countries. Any financial pressure on Boeing's civil aircraft division will be recovered by additional US wars and additional US bombing / killing, with the victims paying for Boeing's financial woes with their lives. Coronavirus can similarly be connected to USA's wars - this pandemic will put immense pressure on Boeing [and Airbus], and Boeing will "lobby" the Pentagon to expand the scale and scope of its global warfare, so that Boeing's weapons business gets a boost. More deaths than the virus will ever cause on its own.

Boeing 737 Max cancellations pile up in bleak start to the year

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/11/boeing-737-max-cancellations-pile-up-in-bleak-start-to-the-year.html

Not unreasonable to think that America might itself ultimately kill Juan Guaido in order to create a pretext to strike Venezuela [COMPACTIDEA]

The "President Guaido" bomb is fast turning out as a dud - a year has already passed without significant dividends, despite crushing sanctions accompanying the political cover given to him. America has so far failed to remove the "Maduro former regime". How now to milk whatever equity Guaido still has left in his body and his brand, in case America decides that it needs to change its regime change strategy and dispose Guaido while not looking like a fool? US could deniably assassinate Guaido - a pretty, pretty easy task - and put the blame squarely on Maduro, in order to justify a crushing military attack on the Venezuelan government, perhaps one in which Maduro and his top officials 'accidentally' get killed?

Guaido should be careful. Strangely, Nicolas Maduro too.

There will eventually be backlash by other countries, if American companies such as SpaceX, Amazon and others continue to launch thousands of satellites each. Other countries will demand that America stop its colonization of space, and that per-country quotas be created so that no one dominant country can acquire and control a majority of what's supposed to be a common and share resource.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/11/spacex-gets-fcc-approval-for-7500-more-broadband-satellites/

https://www.technologyreview.com/f/613929/amazon-has-asked-for-permission-to-launch-3200-broadband-satellites/

The James Bond series of movies will continue to bleed its popularity, prestige, mindshare and also revenue share until it goes back to its old school roots - completely eliminate political correctness, remove females from story writing and other defining parts of the film, add more classy humor, add spice and skin without worrying about feminists, and of course a new, yet old school type face for James Bond.

Putting females in control of Bond films will ruin the entire franchise. Probably forever. The feminist infestation needs to be arrested or else it'll be too late.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jun/07/james-bond-25-film-cursed

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/31/phoebe-waller-bridge-james-bond-film-must-treat-women-properly

Honda's new Civic should - ideally - fail in the Indian car market. It looks more like a Hyundaish toy rather than a sophisticated, rich-man's sedan, and compared especially to Skoda's elegant and far more manly Octavia, the former shouldn't stand a chance.

Because the much-cheaper Honda Amaze diesel-engine variant includes the same excellent engine of the much more expensive City diesel, and is now also good looking and packed with most features, the former should achieve significant commercial success in the Indian car market.

Spreadtrum - now Unisoc - has finally started its upward journey with its SC9863A chip. Either it's already there or it's now very close to the point where its cheap chips will finally become decent enough or good enough that they'll finally start to be incorporated by mainstream smartphone and device manufacturers.

• There's no other purely ARM Cortex-A55 SoC on the market currently. Which is surprising considering there were/are several purely ARM Cortex-A53 chips, and A55 is the successor to A53. But the point here is that there was a market gap that Unisoc's chip has filled - at least until others release pure A55 processors.
• Good GPU.
• Though use of 28 nm manufacturing process is a shame [they should've used at least 16 nm and preferably 14 nm], all 8 cores are A55 and not A57/A72/A73/A75/A76, so power consumption shouldn't be too high. Still, had they used 14 nm, the chip's power consumption would've become a strong point.
• 1.6 GHz isn't stellar of course, but it's certainly good enough for casual usage, especially if the OS is a pure version devoid of unnecessary layers/skins [and optimally compiled and configured].
• The stunning success that MediaTek has achieved in the last 1-2 years, and particularly with its Helio P60 SoC should serve as a cautionary tale for Qualcomm. It's only a matter of time before Unisoc has its own Helio P60 moment. Obviously it's tough to digest that the excellent Helio X30 failed.
• Obviously Unisoc needs to market itself and its products better. For example, the webpage for its older SC9832E product highlights "VoLTE, ViLTE, VoWiFi", but the page for its latest chip doesn't, making you feel like it might be missing these.

Nick Jonas will soon kick out Priyanka Chopra from his life. Their marriage won't last long. She's much older than him, and he'll throw her out when he has milked her sufficiently and gets bored of her. She too has married him largely to further her Hollywood career, so getting dumped in favor a younger, fresher girl won't be as painful for her. Her inflated ego and pride will be hurt though.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Priyanka-Chopra-marrying-Nick-Jonas/answers/94315473

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-cunning-Priyanka-Chopra-marrying-Nick-Jonas-for-money-or-is-it-vice-versa/answer/Shan-Barani-1

America will soon see - if it hasn't already - the already-high and rising Russian agricultural and grain exports on the world market as a threat to its national security, because the massive revenues and profits from wheat and other food exports can ultimately feed into modernization of Russia's military (and allow Russia to undertake military interventions abroad, wherever required).

http://rishabhsingla.blogspot.com/2017/11/so-good-to-see-russias-food-and-grain.html

The Canada–Mexico–United States 2026 FIFA World Cup bid will win over the bid from Morocco. The combined diplomatic, economic, and political strength of these three nations will triumph over tiny Morocco. These three nations have vast financial resources and massive networks of diplomatic corps needed to influence and buy the votes of other nations. Morocco won't be able to survive.

Over the next few years, artificial intelligence and AI will be two of the most misused buzzwords in the technology industry. Shallow companies will casually use this sophisticated and specific term to create a false impression on buyers, most of whom obviously won't understand whether something really contains and represents AI or not. Other candidates for similar and related misuse are neural and neural network, or some sort of jazzy combinations, like neural engine.

Update [12-Oct-18]: AI nonsense is in full swing. Chinese smartphone makers - Oppo, Vivo, etc., are fully misusing this term and have diluted the serious breakthrough that it represented in computer science, and have converted it into a shallow marketing buzzword devoid of any depth.

Apple's extremely lucrative smartphone business via its iPhone franchise will eventually - not immediately, but one day - face challenge from ultra-premium, highly-innovative, co-branded flagship handsets from successful Chinese smartphone makers, especially Huawei and OnePlus. The absence of premium branding on these will be largely compensated by co-branding these devices with marquee brands such as Porsche Design, Emporio Armani, TAG Heuer, etc.

Samsung - unable to compete with Chinese smartphone brands (Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, ZTE, etc.) that sell flagship-like looks, quality, specifications and performance at mid-range prices - will continually cede more ground in the mid-range price smartphone segment to these formidable competitors. Samsung won't be able to provide near-flagship phones at mid-range prices else it won't be able to charge high prices for its flagship devices. These forces will thus ensure that Samsung will gradually be forced to move towards premium-only segment in smartphones.

Samsung is desperately trying to compete with the Xiaomis and the Honors by releasing a variety of ugly-looking mid-range phones with specifications that are a compromise compared to what's being offered by Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. What's being done to Samsung is somewhat similar to what Samsung did to Sony [with the notable exceptions that Sony products always looked/look very beautiful and had/have top-notch build quality].